QuickTime (Pro)

Most people who use video for analysis think of QuickTime only as an option for playing back their video.  However, QuickTime also has a host of built in features that can be quite helpful and avoid the need to use a high-end video editing tool, particularly if you have QuickTime Pro.  I still use other tools, but for quick edits and the like, it is far easier to take care of them right inside of QuickTime.  Specifically, QuickTime let’s you trim a movie or combine movies (sequentially or on different layers), export the entire movie or just the audio track, save the movie or audio in a number of different formats, watch only a selected section (this is particularly useful when you are reviewing a small section in the middle of the video), jump directly to a specific point, add bookmarks, and more.  If you want to edit subtitles by hand, that is also an option, though I find Inqscribe to be much easier for that.

The rumor mill says that these features will be free in the next version of QuickTime, but either way, I highly recommend checking out what QuickTime cane do for you to save some time and energy when playing with video.

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