Any Quicktime 7.5 Takers?

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:39 pm

Anything broken, anything gained, is it sna...?

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:58 am

sna--- LOL!!

I asked the same q on another thread with no replies. I'm going to download it now for my laptop and will give it a few days before updating my studio machines.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:58 pm

cuttime wrote:Anything broken, anything gained, is it sna...?

We may have a winner...

About 14 minutes into reel three of four and editing some dialogue. I noticed the timing was a little off earlier and in previous reels, but now I'm off by about 1/8 a second (maybe a tad more - picture trailing audio).

Worked in this exact project before without a single sync issue under Quicktime 7.4, but now in 7.5 the sync is not stable. I tried changing the buffer settings but to no avail.

I'm not in a bind on this project as I am only eliminating dialogue for foreign markets

but this would make working in a picture where I need to have perfect sync impossible. So I need to fix this (drop back to QT 7.4) in the next 2 weeks.

Seems like something sna...pped in QT 7.5.

Hopefully they'll (Apple) fix it by the time DP 6 ships.

ps- bouncing to disk, the movie remains out of sync. Grrrrrrr......!

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:03 pm

I would sit 7.5 out completely. This is a bad update. I have had video playback issues on my G4 and G5 systems. This last week my G4 went belly-up during a demo software validation (Kore2, which shall remain nameless), and would not boot up at all. To make a very long story short, I ended up restoring my system back to QT7.4, and now my lowly G4 can play Hi-Def 1080 files with no issues. I understand that using Pacifist,

http://www.charlessoft.com/

one can accomplish the same thing with a lot less pain. No more QT7.5 for me. This is the first Apple update that I can surely advise others to stay away from.

P.S.
And yes, it definitely is snappier-it snaps from frame, to frame, to frame...

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:13 pm

Thanks cuttime. I've used Pacifist for many years now. Couldn't live without it

I'm on the path to downgrade...

Kind Of Loud · Post by **Kind Of Loud** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:33 am

Like an idiot, I installed 7.5 two weeks ago. I'm running 10.3.9. This past week, my 'puter went belly up. Wouldn't boot, just dead in the water. I tried everything, to no avail.
I figured the old gal, was a gonner.

Then I found this thread. Thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU..!!, to all here...!!!!
I mounted my volume, in target mode on my laptop, and trashed QT 7.5., and reinstalled QT 7.4.5. The damn thing booted right up...!!! Good as new...!!!

Thanks again for the help everyone....!!!

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:47 am

Uh oh.
I wonder if this has anything to do with my disappearing hard drive, the fans spinning up after shutdown (!) the other day or the freeze my Mac experienced while logged on here as I was in another room two nights ago (never happened before).

I upgraded to 7.5 last week, and I seem to remember commenting here that I had to give up on the 7.4.5 upgrade.
The image wouldn't mount, and when I returned to the Apple site to restart the download, the file was nowhere to be found; they'd apparently pulled it.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:06 pm

Maybe this is the source of all my recent problems

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I'll see if I can successfully downgrade tonight.

I need to find some sort of technical reference on QuickTime that explains exactly how its presence (and version) affects the Core Audio and Core MIDI for other apps (even including browser plug-ins -- someone sent me a video link, which I usually delete without reading, and I had to reboot my Mac).

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:24 pm

mhschmieder wrote:I need to find some sort of technical reference on QuickTime that explains exactly how its presence (and version) affects the Core Audio and Core MIDI for other apps (even including browser plug-ins -- someone sent me a video link, which I usually delete without reading, and I had to reboot my Mac).

Many thank in advance if you could report back about this. Quicktime is the most inscrutable Apple product there is. One step above black magic IMHO.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:47 pm

I haven't hit paydirt yet, but this piece of info is interesting:

QuickTime X is the next version of QuickTime. It was announced at WWDC on June 9, 2008. It will ship with Mac OS X v10.6 in mid-2009. It will be built upon media technology first used in OS X iPhone and will have support for modern codecs and more efficient media playback.

That's from a Wiki article, which also implies elsewhere that QuickTime IS the Core Audio and Core MIDI framework for the Mac and thus any update to QT affects EVERYTHING that uses audio and MIDI, automatically.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:55 pm

No problems--

OS 10.4.11, 10.5.4 MBP 2.2 Intel and MacPro 3G Quad; G5 2.5 Dual, 10.4.11.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:38 pm

Frodo wrote:No problems--

OS 10.4.11, 10.5.4 MBP 2.2 Intel and MacPro 3G Quad; G5 2.5 Dual, 10.4.11.

In addition to the sync issues, there is also stutter on my system. I play the exact same film in VLC and it looks great. COnvert it to WMedia file and it plays great in QTime (Flip4Mac) and the WMedia Player.

I also noticed that bounces from DP are at times quite bad and grainy (audio, not video). I reverted back to QT 7.4.5 but it didn't help. Something got placed in the system and I'm stuck.

Might be nice if DP would allow me to use the VLC player instead of QTime... oh well, post on the current projects won't start for a couple of months so by then I am hoping they'll fix this over at Apple. Otherwise I may be looking at other possible fixes at that time.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:20 pm

That's so odd. Wonder what's up?

I did some serious BTD last week- clean as a whistle @ 44.1 up to 96k in WAV format. I have VLC and F4M on that machine-- but if it matters, I also have QT7 Pro. Dunno.

Hey-- my summer of 2007 was a total nightmare with nothing working right at all, so maybe I should just count my blessings.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:24 pm

It's very strange. Clearly a QTime problem.

BTW, Finale 2009 is due out shortly. Can't wait. Looks like they really revamped it. Hopefully all that old code is gone. Sold Sibelius just in time! Just never got my brain around it.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:57 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote: BTW, Finale 2009 is due out shortly. Can't wait. Looks like they really revamped it. Hopefully all that old code is gone. Sold Sibelius just in time! Just never got my brain around it.

Finale 2009? Just when I thought my worries were over!

MakeMusic has been hounding me with e-mails all year as to why I didn't get 2008. Thanks to 2007 not working at all for me, I demo'd 2008 but skipped it.

Really revamped it? Again? LOL! They're always revamping it.... and missing the mark, imho. People keep saying that the new method of working without the Mass Mover is great. My problem is that my entire workflow and SPEED of workflow is centered around the Mass Mover. Now it's gone. It really set me back a few years.

I always thought the extract parts windows in all versions were too small to start with, and that it cannot be resized to show all instruments at once was really awkward-- scrolling up and down wondering what you selected and didn't select. In the old window you could click-swipe to select multiple tracks at once. Now it's click----- click----- click---- one track check box at a time. Who came up with that "timesaver"?

Mainly, 2007 and 2008 simply didn't honor my printer drivers. I've got a top-line cannon "i" series tabloid printer that works flawlessly under 2006. Later versions have been totally disobedient.

I'll have to see what's up with 2009 before making the move. I had planned on getting into Sibelius by the first of the year. I'm surprised you got rid of yours, MLC.

(Sorry to veer so far OT)

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