HD trailers without Quicktime pro
by Justin Garrison • 2006/02/20 • Download • 1 Comment
here is the blog i got it from http://fallen-idol.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-download-trailers-from-apple.html
Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and select your trailer. Let’s say you choose http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/missionimpossibleiii/hd/
- On most trailer pages there are different sizes of the same trailer, so let’s say in this case we want to download the “480p” version of this trailer.
- In Internet Explorer click ‘View’ then select ‘Source’.
- In the source code look for the following section…param value=”http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/mission_impossible_3/mission_impossible_3-sb_480p.mov
- Copy the “href” url and using a download manager, (i recommend http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/), download this file to your desktop.
- In some cases this file MAY be the actual trailer, but more often than not this file is merely a pointer to the actual trailer so…
- Open this mov file in notepad and you should see something like this…moov rmra trmda 6rdrf url “mission_impossible_3-sb_h480p.mov rmdr rmqu
rmvc qtim
- See the other MOV link? Copy this and add this to the href link above to give you
http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/mission_impossible_3/mission_impossible_3-sb_h480p.mov - VOILA! You can now download the full trailer using this link in your download manager WITHOUT THE NEED FOR QUICKTIME PRO.
It really is a great walk through. Just shows apple that nothing is safe when you have more than a 10% share.

I have Firefox, not the latest version – 1.0.1. I don’t know if this works on the latest version. It probably does, but anyway, I copied the href link into firefox, brought up the video, and clicked – file – save as- and saved the page on my desktop. The page saved as the movie clip itself, and it worked great. This is good, because I am running OS X and I don’t think freedownload manager runs on mac, and it’s one less program to have on my computer. I tried this method on Safari and it didn’t work, perhaps it works on other browsers.
Thanks for the original advice!
-Kevin