Joseph McAllister wrote: >On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:41 , Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Joseph McAllister wrote: >> >>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:29 , Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>>> Cotty wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 3/6/09, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >>>>> >>>>>> QT files? Please - any format but QuickTime. >>>>> >>>>> You can't handle MOVs? Standard video format for the industry?? >>>> >>>> I can handle them. I just hate them. I've had more backwards/ >>>> forwards >>>> compatibility issues with QuickTime than any other software. >>> >>> Always blame the softwareÂ… :-) >> >> As opposed to? > >The dude who sets up the OS and attending software. Or the composer of >the OS. > >QT is pretty much the industry standard on multiple platforms in the >movie and TV worlds.
For anyone who doesn't know, Quicktime is kind of like Adobe Acrobat in that you can get the player for free but you have to buy the software for making Quicktime files (QuickTime Pro). A few years ago I bought and paid for QuickTime Pro. A couple of years after that, when my web browser would no longer play many QuickTime files because of version compatibility issues, I decided to upgrade the QuickTime player for my browser. During installation it informed me that the new QuickTime player was incompatible with my version of QuickTime Pro and to install it I would have to delete QuickTime Pro -- which I had bought and paid for -- from my computer! (The unstated subtext was of course that I would have to purchase the latest version of QuickTime Pro.) In the end I decided that I was quite happy to delete QuickTime Pro and vowed never to have it on my computer again. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
