Preview not working after quicktime update

[Bob Peterson]

What happened was that you updated quick time. It sounds like your version of Vegas does not work with what you just installed.

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s the workaround from a user on the Sony Vegas forum who got burned by this as well.

Get iTunes 8, version 8.2.1 which includes the last Vegas-compatible version of Quicktime, which is 7.6.2.
I got that version of iTunes at https://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php?old_itunes=46.

Turn off QT updates and Apple software updater so that this doesn’t happen to you again.

If you’ve already run iTunes 9 and uninstalled it, it leaves behind a file called “iTunes Library.itl” which is not backwards compatible to version 8, so iTunes 8 will not run until that is remedied.
I just removed it and “iTunes Music Library.xml” in my My Music\iTunes folder so that the whole library got recreated from scratch.

[Marcus Van bavel]

Quicktime 7.6.6 also breaks DVFilm Epic I, our DSLR plugin for Vegas. We had to put a note on our product page.

If you can’t find a later version of QT that works, Apple has an official download page for 7.6:

https://support.apple.com/downloads/QuickTime_7_6_for_Windows

[Jefferson Lima]

Thanks for all the help.

I installed the 7.55 version of quicktime and now Vegas is working again. But, like Mike, Itunes won’t start now.

Apple can really be a pain in the ass.

Do you think this will be ‘fixed‘ on late Quicktime updates or should I just give up on updating Itunes+quicktime?

[Bob Peterson]

I would give up the updating. I have a sneaky hunch that Apple may want to break competitive applications. I don’t know why Sony continues to rely on quick time.