Note that Flip4Mac 3.0 no longer supports OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (although version 2.4.4 still does) as its been designed for the new demands of Lion and Mountain Lion such as Gatekeeper aimed at making Macs more secure. There are several different configurations options including for the Flip Player media browser, upgrade, update and plugin settings.

If you want to change the general plugin settings of Flip4Mac 3.0, they can be accessed at the bottom of your Mac system preferences under 'Other'. You can even export sound from your favorite videos to an iPhone ringtone and use the trimming features to refine it. For Final Cut Pro users, it creates a ProRes file that automatically sets the correct dimensions and native video codec that fit with project settings. Instead, a native AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) file is created for iMovie to avoid additional transcoding when importing. You can also now convert and export WMV video for iMovie and Final Cut Pro but without creating quality damaging H.264 files. Playback controls are enhanced with slow motion options and most functions can be performed using keyboard shortcuts.Īmong the more powerful features of the basic version of Flip Player are the ability to Crop, Rotate, Scale and Trim video which is not possible in QuickTime X. Flip Player also includes a new 'Dim Lights' feature which neatly darkens everything around it so that you focus on just the video. Instead, the player controls only appear when you move the mouse cursor over it. The free version of Flip Player in Flip4Mac 3.0 is very clean in appearance and does a good job of not obscuring video content during playback as there are no overlay controls. Flip Player doesn't feature this watermark with the additional bonus that it has some powerful added extras although many of them are only available in the Pro version.

The difference from the previous version of Flip4Mac however is that it now leaves a watermark in the top right-hand corner of QuickTime although Telestream say they hope this will be gone when the public beta is released. For the first time, it introduces its own player - Flip Player - but it will still allow you to view WMV videos in QuickTime. However, with Perian only supporting older versions of WMA and now no longer being developed, Flip4Mac is set to become the most logical choice for users, especially because it is officially endorsed by Microsoft and effectively, the official Windows Media Player for Mac.įlip4Mac 3.0 is not just a plugin for QuickTime however. The most common solution for users has been to install a multimedia player such as VLC media player or a plugin such as Perian or Flip4Mac which both allow QuickTime to play WMV files. WMV is Microsoft's own video format which by default, won't play on Macs since Apple's own video format is QuickTime.

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