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Quicktime 6.4!!!!

Laslo Panaflex

Laslo Panaflex

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This to me is the most exciting part. I know that it is built into Panther, which is coming out in 8 days, but it still kicks.

Pixlet is an awsome compression, almost 10 to 1. I compressed a 3 gig video file down to 330megs. To me there is no noticeable qaulity loss. Pixlet rocks!!
 
Re: Quicktime 6.4!!!!

Originally posted by Laslo Panaflex
I compressed a 3 gig video file down to 330megs. To me there is no noticeable qaulity loss. Pixlet rocks!!
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3 GB video was DV?
Maybe a gr8 compression for MPEG 2 movies?? (ya know DVD :) )
 
Re: Re: Quicktime 6.4!!!!

Originally posted by MacsRgr8
3 GB video was DV?
Maybe a gr8 compression for MPEG 2 movies?? (ya know DVD :) )
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It was acutually animation compresion. It was a a 1:53 livetype file with a motion background and lots of title effects and motion.

Pixlet is really, really cool. I can only imagine how much space would be saved by converting your mpeg2 files into pixlet. A whole movie DVD quality on a CD. That is awsome.
 
Originally posted by kryten2000
I though you couln't compess with the pixlet codec.Is this something new?
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You need quicktime pro and quicktime 6.4 and you can choose apple pixlet codec to save files.
 
Re: Re: Re: Quicktime 6.4!!!!

Originally posted by Laslo Panaflex

Pixlet is really, really cool. I can only imagine how much space would be saved by converting your mpeg2 files into pixlet. A whole movie DVD quality on a CD. That is awsome.
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Got my Pioneer A06 burner for nothing now :D
Tnx for the info!
 
Originally posted by stoid
Where is the Pixlet encoder. I have 6.4 Pro and Pixlet doesn't show up in either the regular menu, or within the QuickTime movie compressor menu.
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It's right here:
 
Re: windows media compatibility

Originally posted by pkkrusty
is this the version that plays windows media files?
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I still can't play windows media... too bad. :( Guess I'm sticking with VLC as my primary player...
 
yup, that's really lame. I installed it on Jag like you guys and I don't have the option either. I guess that it's onlt in panther? That's wierd though, you need panther to use pixlet, even though its the same version of quicktime?

Sorry to get hopes up, guess we have to wait 8 days to use pixlet. . .
 
Originally posted by mikeyredk
i used pixlet on a 50 meg file i balloned it to 300 megs!!
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I don't think that its designed for small files like that. I think that its for converting huge full rez uncompressed DV and HD files into smaller easier to manage file sizes.
 
I think that people have this misconception that they can use pixlet to create a DVD-rip thats smaller than DivX / Mpeg 4.

This is not the case... pixlet is for encoding from a source of DV, uncompressed. DVD is already highly compressed.
 
Originally posted by Computer_Phreak
I think that people have this misconception that they can use pixlet to create a DVD-rip thats smaller than DivX / Mpeg 4.

This is not the case... pixlet is for encoding from a source of DV, uncompressed. DVD is already highly compressed.
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Indeed. Pixlet purposely does no inter-frame compression for ease of editing, which would be stupid for something more playback oriented (DivX, for example).
 
Originally posted by Computer_Phreak
... pixlet is for encoding from a source of DV, uncompressed. DVD is already highly compressed.
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Can you export to pixlet from iMovie? Or FCE? Or do you have to first export as uncompressed .mov from iMovie, then go into QT to re-export using pixlet?
 
You can do it from FCP 4 I know, but FCE and iMovie, I can't confirm. Of course, this is a feature only in Panther and not the 6.4 that was released yesterday (though I thought that it was). You also need quicktime pro to use Pixlet.
 
bug in QT 6.4

QuickTime 6.4 has a bug:

Sometimes a MIDI file will lose its sound. When this happens, the sound stays off even if you stop playback, go to the beginning, and restart it. If you try to close the file and reopen it with something else already open (preference 'open movies in new players' is turned OFF), QuickTime ignores your request. Opening it with QuickTime not currently running results in soundless playback. The fix is to restart the computer. Any ideas as to what's going on?

<edit>Posted this on Apple's QuickTime/MacOS discussion board.</edit>

<edit 2>Fixed punctuation.</edit 2>
 
Has anyone else noticed that the play/fast forward/rewind/etc. buttons highlight in graphite even if your computer is set to the aqua theme?
 
Problems, problems....

Has anyone else noticed that installing 6.4 on their machine (w/ FCP + DVDSP) disables MPEG2 export? I had to revert to QT 6.3 and re-install DVDSP. To me, that's complete BS. Apple really dropped the ball. It set me back a couple hours on a project I didn't have a couple of hours to spare.

Once the project is done, I'm going to re-update QT and re-re-install DVDSP and see if that fixes corrects anything, though I'm REALLY P.O'd that I'd have to reinstall anything when I get an update from Apple. :mad:
 
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