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quicktime 7 warning
recently had a very bad experience the night before delivering 2 videos for CES, both of them done entirely in afx 6.5.1 on a dual g4 mac running OS10.3.9. one of the videos was a redo with changes, on a piece from last year, and the other was new from scratch this year. the first video had rendered tests and approvals fine for the last 2 weeks, but suddenly the night before delivery, was crashing consistently at 3 seconds in. after 4 hours in the middle of the night, changing cache settings, looking for possible corrupted files, trial & error trying to isolate the afx problem, i remembered that we had upgraded quicktime 6.5.2 to 7.0.3 a couple of days earlier in order to use source footage in the second video that was a newer flavor of mpeg4. (the second video would render fine). after two downloads of uninstall & reinstall from the apple site at 5:00am (you’ve got to uninstall & reinstall from 7.0.3 to 7.0 to 6.5.2) i launched the problem afx project and it rendered fine. (whew!) then went to render the second video and realized it wouldn’t render because the mpg4’s needed quicktime 7. reinstall back to qtime 7 and finally, barely, got everything out the door. i have friends who say they have had no problems with qtime 7 but based on my experience you might want to watch out for this and be aware of the uninstall/reinstall routine.
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3 Replies
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I found the quicktime 7 has some screwy problems. I had an error while rendering something, so I had to uninstall it and go back to 6.5 or whatever. The problem is, I liked that h.264 codec that it came with.
Todd
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I would like to check this. You did not say what format you were having problems with in the new QT.
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i could never establish ecactly what the qtime problem was, only that 7.0.3 wouldn’t render a section of the after effects projects that qtime 6.5.2 had no problem with.
if it helps, the files in the afx project at the trouble point were a couple of pieces of moving illustrator 10 vector type, a precomped series of 3 photoshop stills, an after effects type layer, a photo jpeg codec stock footage clip, and an animation+alpha codec quicktime being keyed, and a 44.1k aiff audio file. there were no non-afx filters or effects, just afx color correction. my first suspect was the stock footage, but it seemed to play fine and was ok at other points later in the project.
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