QT7? Waiting for the all-clear.

fwtep wrote on 10/15/2005, 2:48 AM

Does Quicktime 7 work? I remember hearing of people having problems with it. Are there any Vegas related problems in the current version? I belive the current public version is 7.03. I'm not concerned with H.264 but I'd like to keep up date if possible.

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filmy wrote on 10/15/2005, 9:16 AM

I had issue with the preview verison so I held off and just aboput an hour ago installed the full current version. it istalled fine and no crashing as of yet - well, except that it seems to be a bit picky playing back some of the HD material on the Apple site.

One major downside (ok, maybe not "major") is that it does noy seem to be called "Quicktime" in reguards to the download and possibly how it registers in Windows. The download is called "QT_iTunesSetup" - I could not find anyplace to download only the QuickTime part. Likewise when it installs you are told/asked if you are sure you want to install iTunes. Hitting cancel cancels the whole thing. There is no option to only install QT. After the install and trying toi play a QAT file in th eborwswer I got an error saying I needed QT uinstalled...I had to manually register the "mov" extension to go with the QT player. Also found I now had both an iPod and iTune "helper" running by default, there is not any sort of iTune "settings" that I can find in the control pannel either.

As for Vegas and the new Quicktime - haven't played with it much yet but the stuff encoded with H.264 will "load" in Vegas but will not play and you can't drop it onto the timeline. Also trying to render as a "mov" file and choosing the H.264 option will cause an error.

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/15/2005, 11:02 AM

If you click the StandAlone Installer link, you'll get just Quicktime. Very frustrating and "Real Media-like" of Apple to sneak iTunes in on the backside of Quicktime, IMO. But at least they do offer a stand alone.

No problems with either the free or Pro version of QT 7 here, other than all the codecs aren't accessible.

rs170a wrote on 10/15/2005, 11:08 AM

<I could not find anyplace to download only the QuickTime part.

You must have missed it on the download page then.
It's one of the links under the "Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro box on the right side of the page.
Standalone QuickTime Player

Mike

filmy wrote on 10/15/2005, 3:30 PM

Thanks Spot and Mike - I did indeed miss that. Very cheeky of them and another reason why one should always "read the fine print". All I saw was all the "Download here" "Click here" and the like links. One the actual downlioad page I actully did not click on the "Download with iTunes" link either, I just clicked on the "Free Download Now" button.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/15/2005, 6:02 PM

they also did that with QT6 starting some time last year. I went to download it & got an i-tunes installer.

Couldn't find a non-i-tunes one but (luckly) I found a copy of QT6 on a backup CD of mine. :)

tomadonna wrote on 10/15/2005, 11:27 PM

I have QT7 pro, and vegas still won't import *.mov encoded with the H.264 codec, only old QT6 movies....

Does anyone know wheter Sony is planning to resolve this?

filmy wrote on 10/16/2005, 5:47 PM

>>> I have QT7 pro, and vegas still won't import *.mov encoded with the H.264 codec, only old QT6 movies....<<<

Just to be claer - are you saying it will not even import into the media pool? Because on my end it will import the file fine (no errors) however you can not do anything with it - it just sits there in the media pool. Can't drop it to the timeline, can't play it...so it is usless, but it does import.