post-it wrote:
hmm . that artical brings back some bad memories about QT files indeed!
I can remember those files made by MAC's as previews on TV Series and how they alway's seemed to be washed-out or even some looked like they had no Black referance to them when I'd play them!
In a way, that was why I switched to PC's for Capturing instead of Power MAC's
The good news is that, along with my Posted Message in "Way Off Topic," it now looks like I can re-construct what was done to those files ^^
- THx trythil ^^
I don't know exactly what you were doing, but I know that the problems are not due to any inherent fault in the Quicktime container or in any of the data storage methods described at the Ice Floe. I've used just about every uncompressed data storage format in the document I linked and all I have tried have worked great. For capturing video, I use DV in a Quicktime container. Looks great, works great.
I guess I should also note here that Quicktime is not a Mac thing; I use Quicktime on Windows and on my Gentoo machine. So I guess if you had a capture issue using Macintosh
hardware then that would have been a valid reason to switch, but it seems a little ludicrous to blame a container format.
This is just one of my pet peeves. People don't seem to realize that Quicktime is just a container format (and an insanely powerful one at that). They associate it with Sorenson and ass-quality files despite the fact that the thing is used for WAY more than just streaming video. Quicktime's been used in everything from interactive trailers to VR to high-definition video archive storage.
Uh...yeah. I had a point to make, but I think it got lost. Eh, whatever.
Somebody's going to call me an Apple fanboy, I know it >_<
...ok, get back to whatever the topic was, sorry for derailing it.
