Use the Snapshot feature to save images with drawings.Drawings can be played back in realtime or hidden during playback.Brush and eraser tools with variable colour, line-width and opacity.Draw onto individual video frames (useful for adding notes and marking-up).Trim handles with user defined head and tails (can be used to play selection). Loop Movie, Loop Playlist, and Play Movie Once, Play Playlist Once repeat options.Variable playback rates (0.2 - 5 x normal).Play forwards, backwards and frame-by-frame.Easily step from video to video with up and down arrow keys.Drag and drop folders and/or video files to create playlists of videos to watch.Create playlists, add colour correction, draw on to video, add/export notes, bookmark frames within a video, hard-masking, variable playback rate, flip/flop and many many more features make Quickfire ideal for film/video professionals or anyone wanting more advanced control over their video collections. Follow the link above to get your free copy and start your journey to a whole new world of controllable video on your Mac.Quickfire is a simple to use, yet powerful video player with many useful tools. But to unlock all the advanced features you have to pay, but it’s a very reasonable $19.95, so it won’t break the bank. ConclusionĮlmedia Player is available for free download, and many features are available in the trial version. But as this player plays all file types seamlessly in real time without conversion, you really have no pressing need for that feature. The only features I’m missing, and this is not even really a con, is some form of file conversion as you had in Quicktime 7. The pros of upgrading to the paid version is that you get additional features, like downloading online videos, extracting MP3s from YouTube videos, broadcast to Chromecast, DLNA-enabled Smart TVs and Apple Airplay and various other playback enhancements. For example, with horizontal and vertical flipping of the image or even rotating it while playing, the playback doesn’t even slow down. There are some real-time manipulations you can apply while playing, too, and these are processed instantly. I suspect it compresses the files a little for smooth playback, or perhaps it doesn’t wait for the whole video to load into memory before it plays and streams it instead. Unlike Quicktime, which can take ages to buffer and play large videos, Elmedia was instant play. Playing videos is easy and fun, the menu controls are precise and you can play back at different speeds, even in slow motion. Plus you get all the online subtitle-searching features of VLC but in a more streamlined and easy-to-find format. Users for whom English is a second language will enjoy the subtitling options and formats it supports, superior to Quicktime in every way. If your projector is ceiling-mounted or are back-projecting your videos, even more so. If you play a lot of streamed videos, or better yet project them, then the screen-flipping features of Elmedia will appeal. It’s elegant, but like VLC, it has added playlist functionality. Users who object to the cluttered and nerdy appearance of VLC will like Elmedia. The player has a clean look, like Quicktime, which makes for minimal distraction while playing. The software has a few features you will really like, and I think truthfully that it only has features you will actually use. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Quicktime. The free version of Elmedia adds features you don’t get with the other free players, but when you stump up a little money for the pro version, it really flies.Įlmedia Player adds proper subtitle support, something sorely lacking in Quicktime, plus playlists, tools to delay subs to fix sync issues, streaming video support, both Chromecast AND Airplay support (you rarely have both), automatic online search for subtitle files which match the film you are playing, plus the ability to download videos and audio within the app. Versatile Media PlayerĮlmedia Player is a fully-featured player for Mac which takes the basic functionality you’d expect but adds some additional 21 st Century improvements that are missing from your basic Quicktime. So where does that leave you as a Mac video user? Perhaps there is an alternative with an upgrade path which provides features you would want in a player which aren’t offered by any of the totally free players. Also, being open source, it’s user support is patchy. There are other free players with more features than QuickTime like VLC, but VLC’s more advanced features can be a bit hard to use or at least hard to find. Quicktime used to be a lot more fully-featured and rich, but over the years, since Quicktime 7, a lot of the buttons and features have eroded away. Paid media players on Mac have a lot of free competition, the leading example being the native Quicktime player that comes with every Mac.
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