Posted by Jack P on 12/22/07 06:11

Spex wrote:
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>>
>> 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.






I've learned to love the Mac but I still dig PC's and XP Pro

I HATE the way Vista puts your computer into DRM LOCKDOWN for all your
music and video files --- nice eye candy though


Premier Pro and Adobe seem to advocate not upgrading to Vista --- not at
this time anyway.

ITunes will only encrypt the music that you purchase from the iTunes
Store. All of the music from your own cd's and imported mp3 files are
not copy protected and can be used directly from the itunes music library.

It pissed me off that I couldn't back up my ipods directly -- but
thankfully people keep writing software to do this for me.
I use Backstage to backup my ipods directly to HD --- even the encrypted
songs. cost me $9. Tune Tools does this too as well as allowing me to
clone one ipod to another.

there's my 02 cents

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