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c|net: QT poised to make comeback?

updated 08:30 am EST, Wed December 5, 2001

 
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"QuickTime prepared to make its comeback" discusses QuickTime's role in the industry: "QuickTime still has sway in the film and video world...but has almost no presence in online music, the fastest-growing segment of the digital entertainment market. In a sign of its underdog status, Apple is tying the future of the technology to the acceptance of a new digital video standard known as MPEG-4."


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  1. skydancer

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    About time

    Quicktime deserves it. It changed the way we use computers. It just needs a big catch-up for online delivery

  1. andyrook

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    Quicktime Rocks!!!

    I myself am a Graphic/Multimedia artist who has used Quicktime since it was first introduced. It has helped me create movies for web, cd and kiosk. Quicktime has helped me add neat transparency and alpha effects to my flash projects, even those which do not contain video. Ever tried importing a photoshop file with drop shadow and certain layer effects into Flash... it asks me to import it using Quicktime.... and boom.. the results have been exciting to me. I have used quicktime to convert so many media formats to one another as desired.

    In closing, Quicktime is far superior to the Windows Media Format and many others. Whenever I import a Windows media file, it appears on my computer as a .mpg... To me this is interesting, but for more pro Quicktime users, this may just be the norm. I hope Quicktime finally gets the spotlight for the extraordinary thing it is and can do.

    PS.. makes you wonder why a high number of Windows users have Quicktime installed on their PC's.

    Sincerely,
    son of MacMoose2001

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    well....

    Its great for vod downloads off web servers. But the streaming quality really sucks. Slightest interruption and bam: chunky blocks. Real and WM are much better handling these conditions. When they fix the stream quality then there will be a comeback. mpeg 4 sounds like a start. Been a mac head for a long time but that is the reality at the moment....

  1. palegolas

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    divx compresses so fast

    QuickTime's good... on the Mac. On Windows it's a little buggy. The Windows world's got DIVX. It compresses in no-time and produces low-file-size movies. Sorenson takes AGES to compress. If this MPEG-4 is or will contain a codec that beats DIVX in compression speed, file-size, better quality, and good streaming, it would really be something. Let's hold our thumbs (as we'd say in Sweden)... cross our fingers :)

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    DV

    Working with DV on a Mac using QuickTime simply rocks. Plug, play, go. All my friends on PC are ALWAYS having trouble with their video software, their camera connection to a cheap FireWire card. The FireWire cards on Mac just works with Video Capture in QuickTime. It's such a splendid environment to work in. Don't need new codecs and stuff. Perhaps this MPEG-4 won't change working with DV on a Mac a bit. But it sounds good they're moving together, lots of them big companies.

  1. palegolas

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    play clip

    ... sucks though that the clip assigned to this article was only availible in RealPlayer or WindowsMedia... :(

  1. berserkintosh

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    re:divx compresses so fas

    alls divx is, is asf which is mpeg 4 hacked into another format. divx compresses so fast because when u actually view a divx movie your computer must have good hardware to decode it. where as a slower coding codec like sorenson can be played on almost any machine where as divx you would need a hefteir machine to play movies which is fine because apparently the peecee world is full of "hefty" machines. getting mpeg 4 in quicktime and being able to compress with it would be badass.

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