Save QuickTime movie trailer files to computer without Pro

You need to do two things to download trailers.

  1. Modify the url. Example:

    http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar-fte1_720p.mov

    becomes:

    http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar-fte1_h720p.mov

    Notice the added h.

  2. Change the user agent string.

    I use wget to download trailers (if you've got OS X or Linux, you've already got it, the link there is for Windows). Use a user agent string from Quicktime, so you type:

     wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar-fte1_h720p.mov