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Quicktime 7.4: Install at your peril.
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The deal with that though is that it’s next to impossible. As Gary Adcock has mentioned there are over a million different permutations of inputs/outpus/formats for a Kona card. That is one piece of hardware. Now, taking a Quicktime update and spread across the millions of different permutations of machines, software and individuals, there’s just no way to test it all. NOW! That being said, it’d be nice if they didn’t recommend this update for everyone, which is what it usually says when you click on the software update. “This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users”. There should be a ProApps version that is QC’d separately from Apple’s iTunes department. They should come back and say that the ProApps version is not ready yet, please do not download if you are running FCP, AE, whatever. That would be thinking differently. Since a portion of Apple revenue is from downloads, they could give a crap if our precious editing systems and money makers were down for a day or two as their money maker is now released the General Public in the form of a QT update which won’t effect Joe Moviedownloader because he’s not running After Effects. A Quicktime ProApps version would solve this as we ProApps users would know not to download it until the ProApp dept cleared it and they would release their QTProApp approved version later. It might get messy that way, but it sure would deflect a lot of frustration. You are right, it is asking too much. Oh well, we can still dream.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “You are right, it is asking too much. Oh well, we can still dream. “
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the real solution would be to always include an uninstaller.
Geez that would save a lot of us the hassle of not being able to go back.gary adcock
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This all is a really good discussion.
Apple apparently wants to be serious about professional video products. All their video products use QT as a backbone. They SHOULD start a ProApp version of QT (which will simple be, say QT 7.3) that is highly compatible with video applications.
IF you have FCP Studio on your system, software update sees this and only provides options for ProApp version of QT (say 7.5).
7.4 has created SO MUCH havoc. More than a lot of previous updates it seems. All in the name of iTunes. Great – there’s the piggy bank, but “all users of QT 7” we are not
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How about instead of a separate proapps, they just do better QC on the already existing/required for us Quicktime PRO.
Leave the non-pro version full of bugs, since most folks REALLY don’t need the pro version.
There, the infrastructure is already in place.
Get movin apple!
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But isn’t the Pro version bundled in – it just takes a serial number to unlock the extra “pro” things
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[Dave LaRonde] “QT ProApps is starting to sound pretty good!”
Agreed!
Now get on it Apple!
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Wish I’d seen this thread before letting the update go through – now I cannot use Compressor (2.0.1) for anything. I just get the Alert “Error trying to open source media file”.
Fortunately I’ve got access to Sorenson’s Squeeze so at least I can finish my current project while waiting (forever) for Apple to fix this horrendous cock-up. -
It seems QT 7.4 messes loads of A/V apps up – the solution is to revert to 7.3 using an alternative installer called Pacifist.
See this other thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1342677&start=30&tstart=0
Get Pacifist at: https://www.charlessoft.com/
and the QT 7.3.1 download at: https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/Open the 7.3.1 package with Pacifist and after its done all its checking and extracting it will ask if you want to Replace the existing application – answer Yes.
It retained my Pro pro apps auto registration.
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