Abandon Quicktime?

[YoyoBoy]

I was just forwarded this article.

Ugh. Every time I make an export of a movie I do it in 2 steps:
1) Export from Adobe to MOV with lossless PNG compression
2) Open that movie in QT and export it using H264 compression, since QT does a MUCH better job with H264 than Adobe.

On the plus-side, I guess I'll be cranking out movies a bit quicker. On the minus-side, my movies will be 2-5 times larger. Unless maybe there's some software out there that can replace this process?

[Vizioen]

I was just forwarded this article.

Ugh. Every time I make an export of a movie I do it in 2 steps:
1) Export from Adobe to MOV with lossless PNG compression
2) Open that movie in QT and export it using H264 compression, since QT does a MUCH better job with H264 than Adobe.

On the plus-side, I guess I'll be cranking out movies a bit quicker, on the minus-side, my movies will be 2-5 times larger. Unless maybe there's some software out there that can replace this process?

Doesn't After Affects need (want) QuickTime to be installed?

[glorybound]

Yes. I am working on some After Effects work and when you install After Effects, it tells you to install Quicktime.

[wxyz]

Premiere Pro CS5 won't import mov files w/o QT.

[glorybound]

And there was a Windows bulletin saying that QuickTime should be removed from Windows. Apple also said that QuickTime will no longer be supported by Apple.

[DJH]

I was just forwarded this article.

Ugh. Every time I make an export of a movie I do it in 2 steps:
1) Export from Adobe to MOV with lossless PNG compression
2) Open that movie in QT and export it using H264 compression, since QT does a MUCH better job with H264 than Adobe.

On the plus-side, I guess I'll be cranking out movies a bit quicker. On the minus-side, my movies will be 2-5 times larger. Unless maybe there's some software out there that can replace this process?

Same process here, haven't found a better (or even as good) way yet

[joconnell]

Problem is nearly every vfx and films studio wants dnx hd quicktimes. There's a tonne of bullshit with quicktimes internal colour space too, especially with h264. When after effects writes out your comp to a movie, it does it's own sneaky colour correction on it before it hits the quicktime encoder to try and roughly match apple's look. I'd love if it died as a format!