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Pros
Pro Recording and editing is possible
Before being discontinued, it was possible to unlock QuickTime's recording and editing features by purchasing a QuickTime Pro license for 29.99$. Similar to VLC media player, QuickTime Pro can record video and audio directly from microphone, FireWire camcorder and iSight camera. Non-linear video editing, (e.g. cutting, trimming, resizing, flipping, or rotating video frames) is possible.
Cons
Con No longer developed for Windows
Windows is no longer supported since 7 January 2016. Development of this product has been stunted since 29 April 2005 anyway. New features added since then have been insignificant and very difficult to spot. As such, it does not live up to the modern standards of video playback.
Con Quality of saved videos
QuickTime comes with the ability to encode video using Apple's implementation of MPEG-4 Part 2 (aka MPEG-4 Visual) or MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264). These encoders were once the fastest in the market. But speed came at the cost of low quality. The competitors (e.g. DivX, DivX Plus, x264, ffmpeg, Xvid) all produce higher quality. In addition, since 2005, computers have become more powerful, so encoding speed is no longer a concern.