I updated to the latest version of QT today and was immediately unable to open audio from itunes in Vegas or any other application. Rolled back to an older version, 7.62 and all is good again
Yes,its big in my workflow too and would cause me a lot of diificulty.
Basically, audio purchased from iTunes can now longer be opened in Vegas (AAC m4a), the drag and drop option doesn't work anymore. If you a project with iTunes audio already in it and you update to the latest version of QT, you will simply get empty objects where the audio was and "media offline". I downloaded the last previous versions of Itunes and QT and every thing is back to normal. It seems that QT is the villian here, not iTunes. However the latest update from the Apple site seems only to have the 2 of them bundled together in one download whereas previously you could download them individually.
I use Samplitude 10 Pro for audio and it no longer recognises the files either with the latest QT
Derm
Derm wrote: the latest update from the Apple site seems only to have the 2 of them bundled together in one download whereas previously you could download them individually.
You can still download QT separately: Apple's QuickTime Download site. Just be sure to select the radio button for "QuickTime 7.6.4 for Windows XP or Vista" rather than the first button which includes iTunes.
You can supposedly download older versions from their support site, but the search results are a nightmare.
Just to clarify, at least for me, Vegas now refuses to recognize any AAC audio, not just audio purchased from itunes. It is all AAC audio, i.e. mp4, m4a. I receive the 'stream not recognized' error.
I'd just like to confirm I've had the same issues of non working .mp4 audio and not being able to open quicktime audio properties within Vegas after upgrading to iTunes 9, which automatically installed QuickTIme 7.6.4.
As mentioned, uninstalling BOTH iTunes and Quicktime and then installing the older version of QuickTime 7.6.2, fixed my problems.
I hope Apple and/or Sony are fixing the problems, so we can upgrade to the newest QT.
Former user
wrote on 9/16/2009, 1:50 PM
"I hope Apple and/or Sony are fixing the problems, so we can upgrade to the newest QT."
It has been my experience, using Final Cut pro, that Apple does not concern itself with compatibility issues and QT. They upgraded QT one time that broke the Captures for the Version of FC that I had, and did not ever fix it. They assumed you would just upgrade to a new version of FC.
I wish Sony/Vegas would just stop using Quicktime for some codecs period. I think we all see some improvement in Vegas stills and "mov" processing speeds with other codecs. Apple appears to be moving from the PC media center battle to just supporting iTunes, where all the money is. ;-)