FYI, QuickTime 7

Sean M Lee · April 30th, 2005, 03:45 PM

pro is definitely worth the little $ it costs. It's a great conversion utility if nothing else.

Eric James · April 30th, 2005, 05:04 PM

You don't NEED pro for any of the pro apps at all. I don't see the issue unless your wanting to "present movie" or use it as an encoder. I just use FCP to encode and it works fine. I can do without "fullscreen" for a couple more weeks. Not an issue if you ask me.

My 2 c,
Eric James

Boyd Ostroff · April 30th, 2005, 06:07 PM

Obviously if you plan to buy FCP 5 and can wait another month then it makes little sense to buy QT Pro now.

Boyd Ostroff · April 30th, 2005, 06:22 PM

On Apple's FCP support board several people are saying that installing Quicktime 7 under OSX 10.3.9 causes firewire output to break in FCP HD 4.5. Might not be a good idea to jump into QT 7 unless you have the time to troubleshoot things like this...

Lou Squitieri · April 30th, 2005, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Christopher C. Murphy

What the heck! My "Quicktime Pro" has been blown away! Anyone else have their "Pro" staus killed by upgrading??

I am installing TIGER right now and thought I'd come over to the forum and kill some time while it downloads. It occured to me that I always make a copy of my existing OS befor I upgrade. I use carbon copy cloner; it's free! I got it at version tracker. So, it would be possible to use panther for fcp, and tiger for other things. You could probably reinstall your original OS and update it to 10.3.6 (seemed to work best); reinstall your pro apps; clone it to another hard drive; then upgrade to tiger; you would have the best of both worlds.

April 30th, 2005, 03:45 PM	#16
Sean M Lee Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indy Posts: 160	pro is definitely worth the little $ it costs. It's a great conversion utility if nothing else.

April 30th, 2005, 05:04 PM	#17
Eric James Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 126	You don't NEED pro for any of the pro apps at all. I don't see the issue unless your wanting to "present movie" or use it as an encoder. I just use FCP to encode and it works fine. I can do without "fullscreen" for a couple more weeks. Not an issue if you ask me. My 2 c, Eric James

April 30th, 2005, 06:07 PM	#18
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,802	Obviously if you plan to buy FCP 5 and can wait another month then it makes little sense to buy QT Pro now.

April 30th, 2005, 06:22 PM	#19
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,802	On Apple's FCP support board several people are saying that installing Quicktime 7 under OSX 10.3.9 causes firewire output to break in FCP HD 4.5. Might not be a good idea to jump into QT 7 unless you have the time to troubleshoot things like this...