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Quicktime Pro?

DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,524
edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

I remember Holly telling me all of the wonderful things that can be done with QT Pro, but here's the problem:
I cannot find the thread where she mentioned all of these cool abilities and
I cannot remember what those abilities are and, finally
the QT Pro Site doesn't really say anything about it - well, not much.

Could any of you tell me more about this tool? Do I need this, or is Howler already fulfilling my needs?

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    Dartanbeck said:
    I remember Holly telling me all of the wonderful things that can be done with QT Pro, but here's the problem:
    I cannot find the thread where she mentioned all of these cool abilities and
    I cannot remember what those abilities are and, finally
    the QT Pro Site doesn't really say anything about it - well, not much.

    Could any of you tell me more about this tool? Do I need this, or is Howler already fulfilling my needs?

    QT Pro isn't really an effects program. It does have some filters for adding effects, but they are pretty basic. It can also do pretty basic copy and paste video editing. QT can have multiple tracks such as text tracks that other software uses, such as DVD authoring software. For instance, you can add chapter markers, scoring markers, compression markers, etc. and send the video file out to your other editing software, such as DVD editing/building software.

    To me, the real strength is in the export options. If you want filters, such as film scratches this is the step where you add it. You can also resize and change you compression. Some compressors, such h.264 can be multi-pass to give a great image with a small file size.

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    The pictures in the above post, show some of the options available for looking at, and setting various parameters in the movie's tracks, some of the export presets and the codecs you can have. I may have some extras in there that I have from other software. One of the images in the previous post also shows the basic editor.

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  • evilproducerevilproducer Posts: 9,050
    edited December 1969

    Just wanted to add, that aside from my marriage license, it was the best $30.00 I ever spent.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,524
    edited December 1969

    Yes! Thank you. That's exactly (I think) the sort of stuff she was talking about. Why don't they mention any of that on the sale page? I guess it turns out that this app was only brought back by popular demand. Very popular. Yeah, I think this would do me good. Thanks for the great info, evilproducer!

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,232
    edited December 1969

    Just a footnote (which somebody may have mentionedand I missed it), if you use the DVCPro compression, and play it back in the free version of Quicktime, it only displays half resolution. The 48 Hour Film contest folks strongly suggest DVCPro in a self-contained Quicktime video, since this plays well on the movie theater screen. Keep in mind they show thousands of videos in cities around the world every year.

    So you need Quicktime Pro (which I have) to see the video in full resolution on your Windows PC.

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    It was one of Ranting Rich's threads, as I recall. I could prosthelytize about QT all day long...

    Funniest quote EVER, Evil!

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Current web standards are based on QT. MP4 is essentially dumbed-down QT....

    QT-PRO is a (sort of) standalone interface for QT.... I was so into QTVR back in the day... Clickable hotspots, multiple channels of audio and video, chaptermarks and hyperlinks... I was like "I CAN RULE THE WORLD with QuickTime!!!" - but, no, not really, lol there was never a proper authoring tool for complex QT projects. There were a few for interactive QTVR creation. Now it's all pretty much html5.

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