Posted by Spex on 12/21/07 23:48

>
> I have a love-hate relationship with QT as well. It will play back a
> 24-bit WAV file (which WMP could, if MS hadn't artifically crippled
> it). OTOH, several versions on several different computers all
> play video (and frequently audio as well) very intermittently. None
> of my other media players seem to have this problem.


QT Pro is an excellent tool that has so many features that come in handy
it can be a life saver. In my PC days I never rated QT at all and used
it only because I had to in Avid. QT is obviously a fundamental part of
OS X and it just works so much slicker on the mac as you would expect or
at least hope so.

>
> But worst, whenever QT is installed, it hijacks all the MIME types
> from IE and after hours of trying to find exactly the right place(s)
> to undo this, I have given up. Nothing works for me except to
> remove QT Player completely. I know that others claim that you
> can restore your PC to "nominal" file associations, but, again,
> I have never found the magic combination.
>

On the Mac QT doesn't have to compete with any other media players for
mime types etc so that problem never really raises its head.

> I surmise that Mac users are just different from us PC types and
> that is why the UI seems so user-vicious to us. :-(
>
The consumer orientated applications on the Mac generally default to
simpleton mode which I found confusing initially. I was used to setting
things up myself and making the decisions and found it off-putting when
everything was setup by the app. It's just a different mindset. OS X's
UI is vastly superior to Windows IMO but not perfect.

Sounds like the user vicious activity was iTunes searching your drives
for media. If you have a lot of drives and a lot of files it could take
some time. You might have missed a checkbox maybe.

The main reason for me switching was to purchase Shake at a bargain
price as it was made pretty clear to me if I wanted to get a job as a
film compositor I needed to know it inside and out. I now work on Shake
but on Linux when I am at one of the bigger fx houses. I use computers
for a living and I don't care what I sit in front of as long as it works.

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