Uninstall QuickTime For Windows Immediately, US Government Urges
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[QUOTE=pentium;50140187]Only the cool kids remember [B]when Quicktime was a good thing[/B].[/QUOTE]
I find this hard to believe.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;50140230]I would rather give up video editing forever than use Sony Vegas[/QUOTE]
May I ask why?
[QUOTE=Glaber;50140166]So for those of us who use Source film maker, what are we suppose to use if not the codecs from quick time?[/QUOTE]
You should always export as image sequence anyway.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;50140234]May I ask why?[/QUOTE]
Because Sony Vegas is basic baby editing shit
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;50140231]I find this hard to believe.[/QUOTE]
Rewind to 1993.
We have Cinepak, Indeo, QuickTime and Video for Windows. MPEG too I guess, if you can afford a hardware decoder.
I'm glad that QuickTime is dying off like Flash, Silverlight and other awful proprietary media tumors.
Literally the only thing I've used it for is because uploading TF2 replays requires having it installed.
Which I never do.
But the "if" still bugs me
*snirt* good thing i main GNU/linux
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;50140305]Literally the only thing I've used it for is because uploading TF2 replays requires having it installed.
Which I never do.
But the "if" still bugs me[/QUOTE]
That and SFM for me, otherwise I can't think of anything else I used QuickTime for.
TF2 replays require QuickTime to export, don't they?
stuff like this is why i had to install mac on my computer. their plan is (partially) working
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;50139525]so what do i do now when i need a codec to edit .mov files, because my mac still produces .mov files, working between machines is going to be pretty fuckin stupid now that apple stopped supporting it
guess ill have to convert everything[/QUOTE]
install virtually any modern codec pack
[editline]16th April 2016[/editline]
and optionally, since Mov is just a container, demux it. VLC gives you the option to do it en masse
Also, if your mov file only contains H.264/MP4 and AAC then you can just rename it to MP4 and it will work the same way
[QUOTE=SenhorCreeper;50140264]Because Sony Vegas is basic baby editing shit[/QUOTE]
Why?
Blender works pretty good as a video editing software, it just takes some retooling of the windows and stuff.
you need to state which government in the title next time.... if it was the Ugandan government then I'd listen. :]
QTLite will give you the codec without the player but I think Adobe products still require the full QuickTime install to function properly. Hopefully someone will bring out a QuickTime codec specifically for Adobe editing.
Oh and on Vegas, it's a brilliant editing tool for small projects but it's far from industry standard and it's media management system is pretty basic.
[QUOTE=AK'z;50141926]you need to state which government in the title next time.... if it was the Ugandan government then I'd listen. :][/QUOTE]
Oops, was in a hurry so just copied the article title.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;50139690]I use Adobe Premiere and After Effects which uses Quicktime as a pre-requisite, what should I do?[/QUOTE]
Wait for Adobe to patch that shit out I guess.
They kinda have to now right?
[QUOTE=Wormy;50141897]I would love to get a longer explanation of why you think so. Only complaint I have with it is that it can crash relatively often in intense projects.[/QUOTE]
After Effects and Vegas aren't even in the same ball-park. Premiere is a great editor that is compatible with Photoshop and After Effects, which is a good bonus. Plus it's simply solid.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;50143179]After Effects and Vegas aren't even in the same ball-park. Premiere is a great editor that is compatible with Photoshop and After Effects, which is a good bonus. Plus it's simply solid.[/QUOTE]
I can vouch for this. Premiere is so wildly more intuitive to use than Vegas that I actually find it hard to understand how people know how to use it. Simple stuff like moving around clips onscreen is made convoluted by having to move the stage itself around in Vegas or something whereas Premiere just lets you directly place it wherever you want
[QUOTE=wauterboi;50143179]After Effects and Vegas aren't even in the same ball-park. Premiere is a great editor that is compatible with Photoshop and After Effects, which is a good bonus. Plus it's simply solid.[/QUOTE]
I had to work with Final Cut at my job even though I had the whole Creative Cloud collection on my mac and was way better at it. That was a huge pain in the ass. Once I tried Premiere and After Effects, I always stuck with it. It's just amazing to work with
I use Pro tools a lot for film editing, I guess I'm stuck with quicktime for a while.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;50143179]After Effects and Vegas aren't even in the same ball-park. Premiere is a great editor that is compatible with Photoshop and After Effects, which is a good bonus. Plus it's simply solid.[/QUOTE]
Being able to bridge media over is my fucking jam, it just works
I use Vegas, but I'm switching over to Hitfilm 3 + Blender since Vegas crashes way too much.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;50146335]I use Vegas, but I'm switching over to Hitfilm 3 + Blender since Vegas [b]crashes way too much[/b].[/QUOTE]
As a hitfilm user you're not going to have the best of times
[QUOTE=Scratch.;50146543]As a hitfilm user you're not going to have the best of times[/QUOTE]
Oh? Damn. Is there anything cheap/free that doesn't crash every 10 minutes?
[QUOTE=Scratch.;50146543]As a hitfilm user you're not going to have the best of times[/QUOTE]
What? I've rarely ever crashed using Hitfilm.
Doing some more research on this, the whole thing is overblown sensationalism that is revolving around "This thing is no longer supported. Don't use it again because it might give you a virus."
That's all there is. All the noise is crazy amounts of fearmongering. Most of the articles literally say to uninstall it and give no immediate reasons. You gotta dig for the currently known list of vulnerabilities. You guys suck.
If you're using QuickTime because it's a prerequisite to run some other offline multimedia application there is no reason to act because you are not using the part of QuickTime that's affected, so you folks moaning about AfterEffects still using it can relax. HOWEVER discretion is advised if you are using it for streaming via the player or one of the browser plugins (who the fuck still even uses embedded Quicktime unironically?). I guess since there's no more updates you can switch automatic update checking off if you want, just in case you are paranoid someone will spoof Apple's server and drop a fake update.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;50140234]May I ask why?[/QUOTE]
Vegas is an upgrade to windows movie maker, it's "babys 2nd media editor", you use it for a year then you upgrade to adobe premiere
im never touching vegas again, it's horse shit, and i need to edit .mov files, ive got no alternative now but to transcode which is a pain in the arse
[editline]17th April 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=.Lain;50141789]install virtually any modern codec pack
[editline]16th April 2016[/editline]
and optionally, since Mov is just a container, demux it. VLC gives you the option to do it en masse
Also, if your mov file only contains H.264/MP4 and AAC then you can just rename it to MP4 and it will work the same way[/QUOTE]
codec packs wont work, adobe literally requires you to have quicktime installed to be dealing with .mov, if it cant find quicktime on your system, you can't edit .mov - simple
and yeah i can do that but that ruins the whole flow of drag n drop, i just wish apple planned for this better. They know people work between Mac and Windows a lot on video projects, i dont want to soley work on my mac book, i only use it as a bridge to my main pc
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;50146670]Oh? Damn. Is there anything cheap/free that doesn't crash every 10 minutes?[/QUOTE]
Hitfilm doesn't crash every ten minutes
I usually get it an hour in for some silly error that isn't explained
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