{"id":33450,"date":"2021-08-23T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33450"},"modified":"2021-08-23T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:57:37","slug":"quicktime-player-creates-mov-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/23\/quicktime-player-creates-mov-files\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickTime Player Creates .mov Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=28156678\">reimertz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=28156678\">\n<p>Every time I do a screen recording, I have to go trough the hassle of converting the video to MP4 on my Apple computer.<\/p>\n<p>Even my iPhone can export to MP4 so I there is no reason for it not to work on my computer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In my experience, at least, recent versions of QuickTime Player name the file with <tt>.mov<\/tt> but use the H.264 format, so you can just rename the file with <tt>.mp4<\/tt> without having to re-encode it. But the <tt>.mov<\/tt> default creates all manner of problems for people who don&rsquo;t know this, e.g. when using apps and Web sites that require MP4 files and only know how to look at the filename.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reimertz: Every time I do a screen recording, I have to go trough the hassle of converting the video to MP4 on my Apple computer. Even my iPhone can export to MP4 so I there is no reason for it not to work on my computer. In my experience, at least, recent versions of QuickTime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-08-23T20:54:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"3313ae20-cd9d-4e19-8f88-a81d63b5b922","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-08-23T20:57:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMxOuIM2dThmPiKgdY7W5Ig","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1891,271,1893,97],"class_list":["post-33450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-quicktime","tag-screen-recording","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33455,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33450\/revisions\/33455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}