I rebuilt a machine from scratch that had a Final Cut Pro license on it, but that machine no longer needed Final Cut, but really only Quicktime Pro. Too bad VLC doesn’t have simple editing like QuickTime Pro. I looked into ffmpeg/mencoder, and I think that I probably wouldn’t remember the command line flags for it. I found the file that has the registration in it so that QuickTime Pro works, its in /Library/Application Support/ProApps/Final Cut Studio System ID.

Perhaps I should add Kino to Fink so that would be easy to install on Mac OS X.