The reasons aren't to "hook" you into anything but to better provide an optimized and smoother working application.
Lethal
Having an application that is fast, stable, and powerful is generally the desire of every editor. Since QT isn't just a wrapper and a player but also provides the underlying video and audio framework for OS X it makes sense, at least IMO, that Apple's software engineers would leverage QT to the best of their abilities when making video and audio editing programs. Apple's goal, as well as Adobe's goal, and Avid's goal, and Discreet's goal, and Vega Pro's goal is to make the best software they can for their demographic. Making their software play nice w/the competition is not surprisingly low on their to-do list.
Shouldn't your rant cover everyone that makes editing software since cross-program/platform codec incompatibility isn't limited to Apple's products. I mean, you are complaining about FCE not capturing as AVI but what about PPro not accepting MOV?
I am considering using Premiere CS3 for Mac. Whilst I appreciate that FCE is £129 / US$260 and Premiere is much more expensive, it maybe that Premiere offers solutions that are more suited to my needs. ).
And there in lies the problem.
All the CS3 can be downloaded from Adobe's site and used free for 30 days.
My question wasn't 'Does anyone know if I can download CS3 software from Adobe's website and use it free for 30 days!'
I may not be a software engineer for Apple but I do attempt to understand how the program works "under the hood" and why it works the way it does because part of my job is providing production technology support and creating workflow solutions for about a dozen editors mixing and matching a variety of SD and HD formats w/final products typically destined for the web or TV. We are also building our own finishing and sound mixing bays and will soon start leaning heavily on weaker aspects of FCP (media management and 'round-tripping' projects w/in the FCS suite) which will cause much finger crossing and knocking on wood in the office.
$20 says I have more gripes about Apple's Pro Apps than you do and those gripes interfere w/my ability to effectively to do my job so another $20 says my gripes impact my life a heck of a lot more than your gripes impact yours.No one has answered the Q you did ask so I was just suggesting a way for you to find out the answer for yourself.
You mean like downloading PPro and testing it yourself?
While not super computers, there is still a lot of hardware and software technology 'under the hood' of cars these days. I took some very basic programming classes many years ago and as much as I enjoyed it it wasn't long before I realized I had no future as a code monkey. Maybe that's part of the reason I'm typically willing to give software companies the benefit of the doubt because I know even a trivial sounding feature request can sometimes be a nightmare to implement.
I won't argue w/that.I would prefer to end this thread here as I'm sure we both have far greater things in the world to deal with.
Good luck in your job and also your exploration of whatever is under the bonnet!
Long live
i am not shure if this would help you... but
I you capture using iMovie... you can copy the files to windows and add the extention .DV (digital video ).
Most video editors (at least sony vegas, and media studio) will read the files withouth problems.
When you capture from firewire, the data would come as as DV format. which is then put into an avi or quicktime file... without really modifing...
but for some reason unknow to me. Imovie is one of the few programas that saves directly to DV format... which means is neither avi or quicktime.
Still it can be played in WMP an used in serveral video editor programs.
I discover it by accident..
