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If they really had balls, they would have taken this before running it
I consider myself a fan of QuickTime VR, despite the fact the technology is largely relegated to sprucing up boring real estate sites and amateur “canyon vacation” VR’s. In fact I am one of the few people who seems to care if QTVR shows up on the iPhone/touch. I came across this fairly kick-ass QTVR shot of the inside of a dishwasher I just thought I’d share. It’s very well done, and I have no idea how they lit this, but of course like all QTVR, it is ultimately useless… To see an insanely giant version, click here.
Bitch and you shall receive – Apple fixes “Adobe-killing” QuickTime bug
Filed under: Awesomeness, QuickTime, Updates, whining
Apple today released QuickTime 7.4.1, an update which
“addresses security issues and improves compatibility with third-party applications.
This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.”
I have done a test to see if this “improved compatibility with third-party applications” fixes the Adobe After Effects crashes I’ve been bitching talking about, and I am happy to say the answer seems to be “yes”. Where After Effects had been crashing at almost exactly the 10-minute mark on any QuickTime render, I have been able to render successfully a 23-minute sequence without issue.
Coincidentally, 23 is also how many days it took Apple to fix this…
Why QuickTime 7.4 sucks: Reason 23 – It ate my codecs
For those of you wondering what the first 22 reasons QuickTime 7.4 sucks are, they are the 22 days Apple has not issued a fix for the “bug” QuickTime 7.4 introduced which has caused Adobe After Effects and Premiere to crash on export (Click here to read a thread on Apple’s support site on the topic with over 19,000 views).
But I will now add another reason why QT 7.4 sucks to the pile – it ate my codecs. Without warning, upgrading to QuickTime 7.4 from 7.3 knocked out about 14 of my available export codecs – codecs I used every day. (Ok, it turns out it didn’t really delete them, but I thought it did for about a week. So I’ll tell you the story, in case you are going through the same thing, or have not yet upgraded to 7.4 and want to save yourself some pain.)
I upgraded my system to QT 7.4, seeing as how it was “recommended for all users“. The next day, I opened up a QuickTime movie I had made and attempted to export it. But instead of my usual arsenal of codec options, I was presented with about half of my usual selection.
Above: QuickTime 7.3’s codec list (left) and 7.4’s (right). Audio got a similar hammering, going from 12 to 7 codecs.
I happen to have a ton of video codecs installed for various reasons, like Black Magic support Read more
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