Will Adobe ever want their video editing program to be taken seriously by professionals?

[Annaël Beauchemin]

well, this thread really goes nowhere, but I could add that the Avid Quicktime codecs you’re talking about are there in the event you want to export video from Avid to a third party app (read: AfterEffects). They are there so you don’t need to transcode the video when going from .omfi to .mov.

You said :
[Carl] “OMF is a Quicktime wrapper. FCP use quicktime native, without wrapper.”

Quicktime (.mov) is itself a “wrapper” which contains streams using certain “codecs”.
OMF (.omfi) is also a “wrapper” which contains streams using certain “codecs”.
AVI (.avi) is also a “wrapper” which contains streams using certain “codecs”.

For example, you can have a DV-encoded video stream “wrapped” inside either a Quicktime, an AVI or an OMF. But QT will not be able to read an OMF, even if it has the right codec to decode the video stream. And the “OMFI Mediafiles” folder where Avid stores its media is full of those OMFIs that QT can’t read.

So how can we say that Avid runs on Quicktime?
Why Avid would not work without QT installed doesn’t prove anything.