Well I guess i'm part of that 1%. QT 7 had more than just a couple of export functions. The video editing in QT 7 looks to be a lot more advanced than the simple scrubbing seen in QT X, you could add masks to videos to crop black bars, deinterlace on the fly and a lot of other things. Like someone above said, it's gonna be the same thing that happened with iMovie 08. Only this time, Apple has decided to give people the old version right at the start because they know that the new one is crippled in features. Hopefully they pull an iMovie 09 and actually give people back features that should have never gone away. I was really looking to a new QuickTime interface since 7 is ugly as all hell, but it looks like i'll still be waiting for that seeing as how Quicktime X is useless as far as i'm concerned.
), but I might give the next beta version a shot then. it's looking more like a new OS and not just a simple 'upgrade' of Leopard to me since I read that Apple page, they really have packed a lot of stuff into it even if it's not immediately noticeable. I remember seeing a graph a couple weeks ago outlining how much they've cut down the sizes of some apps, and I'm absolutely amazed with how they've been able to achieve that. Progress is not necessarily adding 'awesome new features' - progress is optimisation and fine tuning, and hopefully that's the key to Snow Leopard's success.Tiger starting with 10.4.8 already had a multi-threaded OpenGL pipeline for Intel Macs yet it was claimed as a new feature in Leopard albeit expanded to PowerPC Macs. I guess we'll have to hope that Apple expands H.264 acceleration support to more GPUs to justify the "new" claim. Really, all Intel Macs with discrete GPUs support some form of H.264 acceleration with the ATI X1000 series and nVidia 7000 series having partial accceleration and full acceleration coming in the ATI HD2000 and nVidia 8000 series. It doesn't make sense that the 9400M gets H.264 acceleration while high-end GPUs like the HD4870 don't or older Intel Macs that really need it with say the X1600 don't, whereas it is supported in Windows.
I wasn't impressed by that feature in the slightest. I don't see it being very useful at all with QuickLook being far superior as you can actually see the file in full size without it being a tiny icon in the finder.
Ah, but it's useful for things like previewing a bunch of songs before adding them to iTunes, for instance.
Sky Blue: Seriously? I'm on 432, and I see nothing.
Ah, but it's useful for things like previewing a bunch of songs before adding them to iTunes, for instance.
Sky Blue: Seriously? I'm on 432, and I see nothing.
The 9400M G models already have h.264 acceleration for Quicktime under Leopard too.
I think OS 9 actually had hardware MPEG2 but it was discontinued with OS X. It would be great to get WMV/Divx acceleration too. I can understand Apple not wanting to write the plug-ins and drivers themselves, but while they are putting in the hooks to make the GPU accessible to H.264 acceleration, they could make it a public framework so that third-parties can also access the video acceleration hardware of GPUs for plug-ins like Flip4Mac.
I really hope it's open to the developers to add hardware video decoding acceleration. It's stupid that Apple has been pushing h.264 and HD over the years only to murder your CPU to decode.
