quicktime problems for adobe cc

[Christian Schumacher]

I wonder what kind of gremlins will rise up on dual platform media software when the Win side has no quicktime any longer, but at the same time, that software on the Mac side remains quicktime dependant?

[Oliver Peters]

[Christian Schumacher] “I wonder what kind of gremlins will rise up on dual platform media software when the Win side has no quicktime any longer, but at the same time, that software on the Mac side remains quicktime dependant?”

Actually neither side will be QT-dependant. Apple already has moved off of QT in its Pro Apps. That’s been so for several years now. Avid and Adobe are working to replace QT components across the board so there won’t be any dependencies there. Just because a media file is wrapped in a .mov container does not mean that it can’t be accessed or modified by other applications without being QT-dependent.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Christian Schumacher]

[Oliver Peters] “Actually neither side will be QT-dependant. Apple already has moved off of QT in its Pro Apps. That’s been so for several years now. Avid and Adobe are working to replace QT components across the board so there won’t be any dependencies there. Just because a media file is wrapped in a .mov container does not mean that it can’t be accessed or modified by other applications without being QT-dependent.”

Thanks, Oliver. But what about software like Nuke, Smoke/Maya or Resolve/Fusion? Is it the same reasoning?

[Oliver Peters]

[Christian Schumacher] “But what about software like Nuke, Smoke/Maya or Resolve/Fusion? Is it the same reasoning?”

There have all known this for years, so yes, each must modify their software – if they haven’t already – to deal with this.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Walter Soyka]

Update:

“Today we’re pleased to announce that Adobe has been able to accelerate work that was already in progress to support native reading of ProRes. This new capability is fully licensed and certified by Apple, and barring any unforeseen issues during pre-release, these fixes will be included into an update to the relevant products in Creative Cloud shortly… When these fixes are released most Windows users will have a seamless workflow for virtually all popular codecs even with QuickTime removed from the computer.”

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/apple-quicktime-on-windows-update/

Walter Soyka
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[Shawn Miller]

That’s great news… I just wish it weren’t necessary. It would be nice if Adobe also added support for 3:1 and 4:1 compressed raw Cinema DNG, while they were at it.

I’m counting down the days until Blackmagic adds DNxHR recording to the Ursa Mini. 🙂

Shawn