DON’T install QT 7.4 if you use after effects

[David Gudelius]

What if you reinstall these codecs?

[Michael Brodner]

Same here. It was too late for me. Im screwed right now. Not sure I have the confidence in moving files and folders around just to downgrade. this is a HUGE problem for me right now. please please please let me know when there is a fix.

Bones

[Michael Brodner]

I dont think so. I have QT Pro and the problem still exists…it really sucks. I think my whole machine is experience a sickness. My iChat and mail have been acting very odd lately. Signing in and out and taking forever to do it…My mail client asked this morning for my password???????? what????

Bones

[Stephen Hellweg]

A couple of years ago, I had this problem on the PC with an upgrade to QT Pro 6.5.

Adobe’s site recommended downgrading to an older version. I found someone who had an older version online to download. I had to uninstall QT pro and load an older version. It worked fine after that.

Has anyone with a PC had this problem on the newer QT version?
I have a new PC and CS3 on the way and I’m wondering if I might be affected.

[Eric Mousel]

Thanks for the Pacifist/7.3.1 reinstall solution. I was the first of four producers to suddenly lose the ability to do renders in AE. Thus, it fell upon me to find a solution.

Eric Mousel
Creative Services Producer
ABC17/FOX38/MyZOU32/ABC StrmTrk 24/7

[Scott Thomas]

I get it. You’re making a joke! That old adding a lower case “i” to everything never gets old.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Hey man, it’s only as old as adding the i to almost every product offered. If you’re going to do that, you’re asking for the rest of us to make fun.

Oh, and iThink it’s about time Apple sees what it’s like for the rest of us when it’s white tower attitude goes to far. Since they don’t seem to care an iSpec about non mac users, it’s good to see their mistakes effecting people inside the mac community.

up until now, when it’s an adobe/PC issue they say screw off.

So a little ribbing of Darth Jobs is probably helpful, in that Apple has no sense of humor about failure (at least when it’s their own) – a little anger and embarrassment in the mac community will get them to fix the issue ASAP.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Mona Carol]

Thank you SO MUCH for the heads up on this. I thought I had already installed the update, and was sunk, and luckily realized that I had not. 🙂 I will continue to not install it until there is some sort of fix on either end.

[Steve Roberts]

Sorry if this has already been reported, but Frank recommends rendering to an image sequence, then rendering that to QT. It’s simpler than it looks. Check his blog:

https://www.capria.tv/

[Feidhlimidh Woods]

Im not sure whether I read it on this forum or the Apple quicktime forum. But some bright spark suggested using the export quicktime movie function rather than render.

THIS WORKED, the export function will allow you to make quicktimes.

For those unwilling to risk the 2 other suggested solutions
https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080124101508276
invloves complete backup and reinstall
or
using Pacifist to downgrade ( a little risky apperently)

Though I found there was a serious quality issue with using the apple uncompressed 10 bit codec (it looked very compressed), the animation codec was ok.

So if you dont need a 10 bit render this will probably do, other than that there is psd and tga sequences which are as normal.

Beyond that this is unsettling shoddy development from Mac, who though I guess they would be loathe to admit these days would be nothing without adobe products creating their original and still predominent customer base.