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Hi

as you might have read already, Apple has stopped support for Quicktime 7 for Windows

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https://support.apple.com/kb/DL837

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Now our security department wants us to deinstall Quicktime because of severe vulnerabilities

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http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-242/

Will Fusion Studio and the Render Nodes still work if I deinstall Quicktime?
Is Quicktime needed by Fusion?

(sorry for using the code tags, as I can not post URL's)

i think you will only loose the ability to load and write to quicktime formats if you uninstall it

hi there,

for me this is a big issue, because without quicktime i can't save any video out of fusion any more...

is there another way of saving out DNxHD / mp4 / h264 / or mov straight out of fusion?

its kind of pain in the butt, to save out a image sequence and load it into resolve or ae to make a video file??

is there a direct way of saving out a videofile???

really appreciate this!!

p.s. i love fusion!

all the best
piripi

This will get you DNxHD

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_U ... -Codecs-LE

I use it with fusion all the time.

thanks for your reply...
but DNxHD is just a codec for quicktime?!
so when i uninstall quicktime, i can't choose it...

so my question, is there an alternative to quicktime, so i can render out any kind of video format directly out of fusion, or am i the only "unprofessional" user out there?

is everybody using resolve or something else for outputting videofiles?

normally i render out a prores or DNxHD video for final or mp4 or h264 for testing...

i use free TEncoder-Video-Converter which it real nice tool to convert videos, it can even manage to render PRORES (encoding and decoding!) and its super fast because it uses all cpus avalible!


blackmagic should integrate FFMpeg or Mencoder which both are 64bit i believe, quicktime for pc is unfortunately outdated quite a bit

i'm not sure how "dangerous" it is to leave quicktime on my machine, but i don't feel very comfortably...

happy for any thoughts
philipp

Same problem here.
Can't export into any video format without quicktime

Reliance on Quicktime junk on PC never made sense to me. I'm glad its done now although I'm not sure how much of a security vulnerability it will be in the future, probably very little reason for concern.

Our IT department went and uninstalled QT from my PC that is running Media Express, tied to an H264 recorder. I wasn't aware of this until I went to use the unit. I downloaded QT 7.7.9 and installed it and Media Express is up and running albeit a bit unstable.

Is there a way of running Media Express without QT?

so what would be a good workaround?
render out exr an than compress it with resolve to a moviefile?

this way it drives me mad...

any "easy" sulutions?

appreciate smart workflowes!

all the best
philipp

Couple things. First, Quicktime is just the player.. you can still install the codecs on Windows. Even so, there are still two formats that are viable. DNxHR via MXF container, which is an open standard container. Also, CinemaDNG, which seems to be gaining popularity as well. Yah, CinemaDNG is much larger, but still gives you options and storage is pretty cheap. I am a hobbyist and I have a RAID 0 SSD for cache, NVMe SSD for boot and another SSD for project files. HDs are cheap too.. 16TBs (2x8TB RAID 0) cost about $500 for archive drives, and a little bit more for NAS/Desktop drives. For storage of source material or final renders, archive drives are fine.

Justin Jackson wrote:Couple things. First, Quicktime is just the player.. you can still install the codecs on Windows. Even so, there are still two formats that are viable. DNxHR via MXF container, which is an open standard container. Also, CinemaDNG, which seems to be gaining popularity as well. Yah, CinemaDNG is much larger, but still gives you options and storage is pretty cheap. I am a hobbyist and I have a RAID 0 SSD for cache, NVMe SSD for boot and another SSD for project files. HDs are cheap too.. 16TBs (2x8TB RAID 0) cost about $500 for archive drives, and a little bit more for NAS/Desktop drives. For storage of source material or final renders, archive drives are fine.

Justin,

What about if your source content is H264 in an MP4 container. Wouldn't you still need Quicktime in order to get the media into Resolve?

I know Quicktime Player is a separate animal from the Quicktime codecs; where is the security issue? Quicktime codecs in my we browser? If those are expunged along with the Quicktime Player app, am I safe? Sorry; I'm normally using a Mac so Quicktime security issues are addressed by Apple.

Thanks,
Barry