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- alright I hold my hand up to knowing it is essential but I wonder what will be the longer term ramifications. Does this pressage another struggle between MS and Apple. Faced with having to keep Quicktime installed will it be a matter of time before our computers are compromised?

I currently use the MP4 format by choice but perhaps it would be best to move back to WMV - Any thoughts?

If you use Smartsound, it will not run without Quicktime. I find this report, however, a little insane. A company cannot simply STOP supporting such a widely used program without really pissing off a lot of people. Perhaps we have not heard the entire story yet. It would be interesting to know how CL deals with this as it's a crippling development. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote: Perhaps we have not heard the entire story yet. It would be interesting to know how CL deals with this as it's a crippling development.

Exactly my thoughts on both counts.

That is good article that you are protected if you happen to use HP Enterprise TippingPoint network security solutions. It took Apple 4 months to acknowledge the problem and provide a link to their removal instructions.

PD will run without QuickTime. Others users don’t install it. See this post: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/46983.page . It appears that Apple may own some of the patents related to h.264, mov, and mp4. That is why Windows users have to put up with it in PD. The workaround would be to use a converter in that post.

Other video editing software I have also uses QT the way I remembered it. I’ll keep QT as I use those formats in PD and prefer to be able to use svrt without format conversion loss.

I just sent in a ticket on this to CL.

The best safeguard would be to completely disconnect from the net when it is not needed, this includes the physical disconnection of the modem from the USB port to which it's connected if there is a risk to your computer's security through QuickTime no longer being supported.

Barry The Crab summed this up perfectly: A company cannot simply STOP supporting such a widely used program without really pissing off a lot of people. Couldn't have put it better myself! I suspect this might have a tiny bit to do with the rivalry between Microsoft(Windows) and Apple.

For me, I'm only on the net when I'm visiting favourite websites, then I jump off and disconnect completely, so that my computer is once again a stand-alone device. I really do "play it safe"!

Cheers!

Neil

Hello,

new PD user here, I just installed PD 14 and chose not to install Quicktime (I uninstalled it yesterday after the security concerns). PD seems to run fine, I just can't make Quicktime videos.

It'd be good to get some official information from CyberLink.

I thought PD would run fine without Quicktime (in fact Im sure I uninstalled it recently and PD worked fine)

Question is can you still convert to MP4 without it? dffd

I've uninstalled Quicktime completely.

So far, apart from not being able to use SmartSound in PDR, I haven't found any other ill-effects. All videos tested have imported, played back and produced to various formats without issue.

So - yes - producing to MP4 isn't a problem.

Cheers - Tony
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Perfectly - no QT required

We have two threads going covering the same ground - https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/48135.page

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Quote: I've uninstalled Quicktime completely.

So far, apart from not being able to use SmartSound in PDR, I haven't found any other ill-effects. All videos tested have imported, played back and produced to various formats without issue.

So - yes - producing to MP4 isn't a problem.

Cheers - Tony

Hello, Tony!

I had concerns as well re: MP4 video edit as my newer camera(purchased late last year) shoots in either AVCHD or MP4. I'm not much of a fan of SmartSound so it won't be much of a loss, but I'll wait until others have uninstalled Quicktime to see what's become of their Power Director programmes. Yes, I'm playing this VERY safe!

Neil.

Uninstalled QT and a very brief use of PD13 with a 720p 120 fps clip seemed to work ok. More on 120fps later and in another thread.

Time will tell us if the QT issue will be addressed by all the other programs that use it.

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Quote:
Barry The Crab summed this up perfectly: A company cannot simply STOP supporting such a widely used program without really pissing off a lot of people. Couldn't have put it better myself! I suspect this might have a tiny bit to do with the rivalry between Microsoft(Windows) and Apple.

Apparently, your new to how Apple does things

Im only playing, not trying to be rude. Yet it is comepletely 100% true and Apple has not updated QT for a bit now. Recently several exploits into Windows machines thorugh the QT code have also been found. even if QT isnt 'running' (as we all know it never actually isnt running unless blocked at startup).

Bottom line is that we neeed to stay on top of this so CyberLink produces a viable and safe alternative, or refunds monies before an applicable, and now proveable, anti-trust settlment is pursued and issued.

Actually that's pretty funny, Hyjax.
Welcome to the forum.
My biggest issue with removing QT was the now discredited idea that the Smartsound plugin would fail to function without it. Its been absolute gospel for over a decade that was fact. Nobody in corporate A told anyone in corporate B when that was changed. Well, Smartsound MOSTLY runs, Member ynotfish discovered that only the library audio preview fails. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote: Member ynotfish discovered that only the library audio preview fails.

Hello, Barry,

Even though you could stil access(in one way or another) the SmartSound music, without that preview function, your taking stabs in the dark as to what the tracks are, or sound like, so QT has stuffed things up for SmartSound users, well-and-truly. As for me, I either source my background music from elsewhere, or not use any music at all.

Cheers!

Neil.

(P.S. there you go, I stayed on-topic and was brief. Happy?)

Barry - yes - absolute gospel! Just goes to show you that if something is repeated often enough, whether well-founded or not, it becomes "the truth".

Neil - of course it's not ideal the way it is, but it's the best we've got for now. Of course, if you use SmartSound Express Track (part of SonicFire Pro) to mix your music there's no guess work at all. As you've stated often, you rarely use SS music in any case.

I'm just pleased to read that SS & CL are talking about it! Between them, a resolution wil be found, I'm sure.

Cheers - Tony
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I've deleted QT and done a couple of tests and given the way that I use PD (I make changes to audio 'outside' PD) everything is as normal. Just makes me wonder how much dross I've got on my machine that doesn't have to be there.