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OT: iTunes BAD for video playback
Hi.
I plan to use iTunes to show some sequences of short movies (commercials) and loop the playlists.
The movies import fine and look good in quicktime, but when played back through iTunes – they suddenly s**** resolution- and colorwise.
I re-checked the source iTunes used for playback, through the “reveal in Finder” function, to make sure iTunes hadn’t transcoded the files.
Everything fine.
Seems like it plays back some sort of messed up SD image independently of what the source is. (SD source looks bad, too…)
This could maybe explain some of the Apple TV reports?
Gunleik
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Why would you use iTunes for video playback? That’s what Quicktime Player is for.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Gunleik Groven] “I plan to use iTunes to show some sequences of short movies (commercials) and loop the playlists.”
Walter,
Is there a way to automate the Quicktime Player to meet Gunleik’s needs?Lee Berger
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Bacause i need to make looping playlists where I can quickly change one program “spot” for another.
Say I’m making programmigs for a hotel-chain, and they all need sorta the same program, but not exactly. Then I’ll need to quickly change one spot for another (through Apple Remote desktop) without encoding the whole 30 minutes individually for each computer.
A lot quicker to just change one 30 sec spot for another and just hit “loop-playback”
Gunleik
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What about Keynote?
Steve Connor
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[Gunleik Groven] “Bacause i need to make looping playlists where I can quickly change one program “spot” for another.”
iTunes isn’t really designed for this as far as i can tell. Look at the new Final Cut Server that is either out now or about to be released soon. That sounds like a much better solution.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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Sure will order server, but for this?
Its’s say 20 remotely located compuers that playback slighlty different playlists.
I can administer them through VNC/remote desktop and upload all the material to one server from which i upload the files to the individual computer.
As to keynote.
I was planning to export movies from keynote, but Ihadn’t considered it for playback.Will check.
Thanks!Gunleik
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I think it’ll do what you need.
Steve Connor
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[Gunleik Groven] “Sure will order server, but for this?”
Server is a media asset management system so it’s designed for handling the media sharing by many different users. As for a playlist, that sounds more like an automated commercial playback system.
As you noted, iTunes video quality is primarily for iPods and I really don’t think it will deliver the quality you want.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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As you noted, iTunes video quality is primarily for iPods and I really don’t think it will deliver the quality you want.
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Quality? Video in iTunes looks the same as it does anywhere else on my computer.
The problem, as has been discovered, is that iTunes is slow as a dog and very unresponsive when it comes to video. I don’t know why this is, but I agree that iTunes is unsuitable for this purpse. Which is a shame, because the whole playlist/smart playlist functionality could be great for this kind of thing.
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[Jeff Carpenter] “Quality? Video in iTunes looks the same as it does anywhere else on my computer.”
It does not on any of mine… (I have a mixed bag of intels and G5’s here)
If you take a video with text-elements in it and view the same file (not a copy) through iTunes or QT, it looks garbled in iTunes and good in QT.
Moving images have less defect.
My pondering here:
As you usually ned QT-pro to look on fullscreen videos except for through iTunes, maybe has put in some limits to iTunes to make people still pay for the (arguably silly) QT-Pro upgrade to get nice fullscreen images?The downside:
This bad playback falls in line with the negative reports on Apple TV. Maybe it’s not ATV, but iTunes which is the evil-doer.To Walter:
This is exactly what I’m looking for.
Any suggestions?Thanks a lot for your input!
Gunleik
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