Howto: Downgrade to Quicktime 7 in Snow Leopard

Chauncey Dupree
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July 01, 2009
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So we've been playing with the Snow Leopard for awhile but didn't know how to use old Quicktime 7 - Snow Leopard comes with Quicktime 10 by default.  Turns out, it's pretty easy.  Just open a Quartz compozer file from your computer with Quicktime and it will prompt you to update.  To find a .qtz file simply do a Spotlight search.

Here's a video of the process from ijustapple. Turn off the sound on your computer before hitting play...unless you happen to be DJing at a 1990's club.

Quicktime 7 gets put in your Applications/Utilites folder.

Comments (7)

blank (not verified) | July 01, 2009 - 5:21am

Quicktime 6 by default? What?

Tony Arnold (not verified) | July 01, 2009 - 5:33am

Please go back and re-read the article you linked to. QuickTime X is allegedly installed by default, and QuickTime 7 is installed on demand.

Bill (not verified) | July 01, 2009 - 5:33am

This article is really confused.

chad (not verified) | July 01, 2009 - 6:15am

+1

Wow. Well informed! :Þ

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 01, 2009 - 6:43am

how does SL have qt 6, if leopard has qt7????

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 02, 2009 - 6:23pm


Ok, now we know the "how", what about the "why"? What possible reason would you have for downgarding in this way. Some sort of retro chic?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 05, 2009 - 4:19am

because of the ability to have scaled playback different from 1:1,
because of the export features of the quicktime pro version,
because of the editing capabilities of the pro version.
This are the reasons why I was searching for this possibility since days. Thanks for the trick.