![]() ![]() PC World have a tough appraisal of the situation (one I’m sure Adobe could live without):Īdobe on QuickTime: You’re up the creek without a paddle Moreover, Adobe is dropping QuickTime 7 codec support on all April releases of their full CC product line:ĭropped support for Quicktime 7 era formats and codecs Īdobe advises customers to move to newer codecs, but that isn’t always an option. What breaks: Among others, Apple ProRes (the big one), plus “Animation (import and export), DNxHD/HR (export) as would workflows where growing QuickTime files are being used (although we strongly advise using MXF for this wherever possible).” What works: uncompressed, DV, IMX, MPEG2, XDCAM, h264, JPEG, DNxHD, DNxHR, AVCI and Cineform), plus “DV and Cineform in. But let’s deal with Windows and Adobe software. That could get messy, again, with so many formats out there. So here’s Adobe:Īnd before you get too smug, Mac users, you can expect some bumps in the road as cross-platform software generally tries to get out of QuickTime as a dependency. But because of the variety of formats artists support, this starts to break some specific workflows. It’s a Web-based vulnerability, so not particularly relevant to us making visuals, but significant nonetheless.ĭevelopers should already have begun removing dependencies on QuickTime some time ago. That is, Apple had already dropped QuickTime for Windows development, including fixing security vulnerabilities – and this known one is bad enough to finally uninstall the software. To follow that advice, you can perform that installation on Windows as follower (macOS users aren’t impacted): Urgent Call to Action: Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Today And now they’re looking for solutions.įirst, here’s the sequence of events – and if you’ve been watching the general mayhem in the US government, you’d be forgiven for missing what was happening with, like, QuickTime for Windows security.įirst, from the US Department of Homeland Security (really, even if the headline looks more like Macworld):Īpple Ends Support for QuickTime for Windows New Vulnerabilities Announced But that leaves creative people stuck – including live visual artists. The story: Apple leaves QuickTime securities unpatched on Windows Adobe drops support in their product line. ![]()
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