14 DAY TRIAL // Reportedly, the latest beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard includes a YouTube sharing feature, alongside a new screen-recording function in the upcoming QuickTime X Player. The two late findings add to a number of other new features to QuickTime X, the next incarnation of Apple's powerful media player.
Besides the Pro-level features said to be making their way into QuickTime X free of charge, AppleInsider reports a built-in YouTube uploading one similar to that of iMovie. QuickTime X, as Softpedians should know, is part of Apple's next version of Mac OS X, 10.6 a.k.a Snow Leopard.
After entering a YouTube username and password, QuickTime X Player will encode the video to an appropriate size and format optimized for streaming, and then automatically upload it to YouTube. This makes QuickTime X Player's sharing features identical to those found in iMovie. In addition to the MobileMe sharing feature that appeared in OS X 10.6 developer builds last month, QuickTime X is also capable of screen-recording now, the same source has revealed in a report.
As noted yesterday, this is good news for software developers, educators, and casual users alike, as it simplifies the process of creating video tutorials, demos, etc., but not so much for third-party developers, who are likely to lose hundreds of buyers for their Mac OS X video-capture solutions. Ambrosia Software, which develops Snapz Pro X, is one of those companies.
Apple has described QuickTime X as a new version of the media player included with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, mentioning optimized support for modern audio and video formats as high points of the software. As for Snow Leopard, Apple is believed to require at least two extra months to polish up the software between the WWDC '09 showcase and the official public release. Estimates pin the release in the August-September time-frame.