Apple, QuickTime And PT

[GTBannah]

Hello!

With Apple supposedly "abandoning" Quicktime, what are the implications, if any, for the video Engine here? Will Avid have to get us a new one?

The folks at Steinberg are working on a new one, as we speak, citing that as the reason.

[Drew Mazurek]

With Apple supposedly "abandoning" Quicktime.

Huh? Source? Are you referring to Windows support by chance?

[peterle]

what steinberg "tries" (look in the nuendo forum how it works , or not)
is to establish an quicktime independent video engine,
a step that avid already did with the change from PT10 to PT11..
thats quiet a bit ago.

quicktime was abandoned from apple because a lot of security problems,
and its inherent problems with video in protools where one of the reasons to drop
quicktime from avids side.

[GTBannah]

what steinberg "tries" (look in the nuendo forum how it works , or not)
is to establish an quicktime independent video engine,
a step that avid already did with the change from PT10 to PT11..
thats quiet a bit ago.

quicktime was abandoned from apple because a lot of security problems,
and its inherent problems with video in protools where one of the reasons to drop
quicktime from avids side.

As expensive as it is, this might have to be the next move .... :(

https://non-lethal-applications.com/products/video-slave-3

[Reckless Erik]

..and if you convert to .mxf?

[GTBannah]

..and if you convert to .mxf?

Tell us a bit more .... :confused:

[peterle]

here are NOT qt videofiles meant,
its just the video engine.
QT Files still play nice as before in PT.

maybe here is a misunderstanding?

[BScout]

With Apple supposedly "abandoning" Quicktime, what are the implications, if any, for the video Engine here? Will Avid have to get us a new one?
Avid already did. It's called the Avid Video Engine (AVE). They did it June 21, 2013. Going on 5 years too late on this news.

[GTBannah]

Avid already did. It's called the Avid Video Engine (AVE). They did it June 21, 2013. Going on 5 years too late on this news.
.... so, Steiny, like I am, is behind time?! :D

[PatriotsBiker]

So, at the risk of sounding way behind the times or otherwise far too comfy under my rock, is QuickTime needed to run on a PC for Pro Tools anymore?

(Edit: - For audio sessions, is my intended question.)

[GTBannah]

So, at the risk of sounding way behind the times or otherwise far too comfy under my rock, is QuickTime needed to run on a PC for Pro Tools anymore?

(Edit: - For audio sessions, is my intended question.)

You’re not alone, in possibly being behind the times.

My understanding is, that you do not necessarily have to have QuickTime installed for PT to handle video, it’s just that some time in the future, video exported by PT may not play back in QuickTime, if it is indeed installed.

Will those “older and wiser” please jump in and clarify? :-)

[PatriotsBiker]

You’re not alone, in possibly being behind the times.

My understanding is, that you do not necessarily have to have QuickTime installed for PT to handle video, it’s just that some time in the future, video exported by PT may not play back in QuickTime, if it is indeed installed.

Will those “older and wiser” please jump in and clarify? :-)

The reason I asked is at some point in the 2018.1 PT installation, a message requiring me to press "OK" appeared stating that QT was required, errors may occur and everyone I know will come down with an illness if I do not go to the apple site and download their latest driver. (I had decided to uninstall QuickTime when uninstalling the rest of PT prior to the new PT version install. )

[JoelG]

I think you need Quicktime to do anything with MP3's. Although you don't need to have it enabled as a plugin in your browser.

I'm not sure if Apple is still releasing updates for Mac's, but they stopped updating it for Windows 6 months ago or more.

Joel

[The Weed]

Check on pro-tool-pc.com. They have a post about how to have QT installed on Windows for PT without having to have the complete QT, which, as stated, Apple have "killed" on PC.