T2 Quicktime on mac

[Steve Prince]

Hi Guys,
I can't seem to select a quicktime movie to view in T2, they are all greyed out. Is this because I'm on OSX 10.2.8?

Loving the demo so far

Steve

[semiquaver]

nope, I have no problems in 10.2.8 ....

[Steve Prince]

Hello again,
sorry to bump this thread but could anyone assist me in viewing Quicktime movies in the T2 demo. This is a feature that I am particularly looking forward to using in T2.

I've followed the instruction in the manual to no avail. When I select the "set Quicktime movie file" option all the my Quicktime movies are greyed out in the dialog box and cannot be selected. The same thing happens when I choose the "Show Quicktime movie window" option; same dialog box with greyed out movie files. They open fine in Quicktime.

I'm using an iMac G4 700 with OSX 10.2.8.

Any would be appreciated

Steve

[frankvg]

you're trying to open .mpeg4?
I could only open .mov

Can someone please explain about those different files/codecs? There is nothing in the T2 manual.

Frank

[haydxn]

on pc here i have some qt files that simply won't load into it. some do, some don't. i'd perhaps try to resave them as a different qt format (if you have QTpro)

[frankvg]

"some do, some don't"

that sounds awfully vague. Don't tell me it's completely random.....

[valley]

It uses the quicktime engine, so I'd ikagine it'd be limited to, and only by, .mov files that quicktime can open.

[ModuLR]

another point to clearify is that quicktime can actually support many different codecs. For example, if I create a quicktime using the Avid Comrpessor codec.. you won't see it unless that codec is on your machine. Quicktime is much like a container.

[nuisance sonore]

I just tried opening a bunch of .mov file that I rendered using a bunch of different codec (Sorenson, MJpeg, cinepak etc...) and they all worked fine; and that's on a WindowXP machine, I would have thought that Quicktime would have worked better on a Mac .
In any case it has very limited functionality, since you can't lay it down on a track you can't view marker that you have set in an NLE and you don't really get a sense of time since you only view the one frame that your cursor is set upon. It's a nice addon, but I'm not getting rid of my notepad yet.

[valley]

another point to clearify is that quicktime can actually support many different codecs. For example, if I create a quicktime using the Avid Comrpessor codec.. you won't see it unless that codec is on your machine. Quicktime is much like a container.

I was hoping you'd find this thread.

[ModuLR]

I'm the total opposite. I hate when an application stretches the video into frames over the timeline.

[nuisance sonore]

another point to clearify is that quicktime can actually support many different codecs. For example, if I create a quicktime using the Avid Comrpessor codec.. you won't see it unless that codec is on your machine. Quicktime is much like a container.

Much like AVI on Windoze, but apparently the op stated that they open fine in quicktime standalone, so that would entail that the codec is properly installed on the machine, no? Unless things work different on a Mac and codec are application specific and not global like in Window?

[haydxn]

yeah, some do some don't is vague but it's the truth. qt caters for different codecs, and some are clearly encoded in those which don't run in T. i don't really know which is which tho, since they're just .mov, so some do and some don't.

[nuisance sonore]

I'm the total opposite. I hate when an application stretches the video into frames over the timeline.

What do you use, a storyboard type of editor?

[larsfarm]

Hi Guys,
I can't seem to select a quicktime movie to view in T2, they are all greyed out.

Strangely Apple lossless audio (a Quicktime format) isn't supported either. Can't import a sound file in this format. So, the Quicktime support appears to be quite rudimentary.

Lars