To successfully copy a QuickTime movie using this method, you will need a text editor such as TextWrangler -- it's free, and a great text utility to have. (TextEdit will also work.) This method of copying a QuickTime movie works for movies that are kiosk-mode protected. Kiosk mode is an option that can be set for a QuickTime movie, so that even users who have QuickTime Professional cannot copy the source of a movie. Remember, this method assumes you are using QuickTime Professional.
In essence, this solution involves making a copy of a source web page containing a kiosk-protected QuickTime movie, then altering the kiosk tags so that they allow the source of the movie to be saved.
Here are the steps:
- Browse to the web page that contains the QuickTime movie you want to save, and make sure the movie is fully loaded into the browser cache. You may see a light gray progress bar that shows in the QuickTime controller at the bottom of the movie showing you how much of the source movie has been downloaded to your computer. When the movie is cached (when the progress bar is gone), you have a complete copy of the movie on your local machine.
- Choose View Source from the appropriate menu in your browser of choice. In Safari, this is under View -> View Source. In Firefox, it's under View -> Page Source.
- You now need to save the source code of the web page to a separate file. In Safari this can be done by choosing File -> Save As... In Firefox, File -> Save Page As.... Save the file with whatever default name shows up. The name of the file doesn't matter, but it needs to have the .html file extension. Once the source of the page has been saved, you can close the source file view window.
- Open the source file you just saved in a text editor. Note: Do not quit your browser, and keep the window containing the source movie open. You need to keep the browser window open so the cached movie file will not be deleted.
- Search for the tags that contain NAME="kioskmode" VALUE="true". You will be changing these tags so they become NAME="kioskmode" VALUE="false".
This will disable the kiosk mode protection, and allow the source QuickTime movie to be saved. The easiest way to find all of the kiosk tags is by using Find, or Search and Replace.
In some cases, the page will contain JavaScript code that writes the QuickTime plug-in parameters to change the Kiosk mode. Searching for all of the kiosk tags will reveal all instances of code that involve kiosk. For instance, if you see something like 'kioskmode', 'true', change the word true to false.
Once you have changed all of the kiosk tags, you need to save the file. It's fine to overwrite the original with the edited version. - Open the edited file in your web browser, in a separate window. Remember, you want to keep the original window open so the movie stays in the cache.

