Mac OS X comes with QuickTime X, since Snow Leopard. QuickTime 7 (which can be turned into QuickTime Pro) can be installed from the Snow Leopard and Lion install disks, but what to do if you don't have that handy?
There are two methods available:
1. You can just download version 7.6.6 of QuickTime here. Yes, it's not the latest version of QuickTime 7, which seems backwards, since the latest version is apparently only available for Leopard, but it turns into QuickTime Pro, which is all we need.
2. If you want Mac OS to automatically download the right version of QuickTime for your OS, there's a trick: Open up TextEdit, and hit Shift-Cmd-T to make the file a plain text file. Then save it on your Desktop as "movie.qtz" (don't use .txt file extension!). Double click the file on your Desktop, and Mac OS will inform you that it can't open the file in QuickTime X, but offers you to install QuickTime 7. Accept that offer, and you're done. Then you can delete the file movie.qtz that you had just created.
Yes, this is a little strange and counter-intuitive, and yes, QuickTime X in Lion apparently offers some of the QuickTime Pro features. I still like the handling of QuickTime 7 better...
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