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Friday, April 29, 2005
Quicktime 7 pro
Dear Mr. Jobs,
Today is a great day for all apple-maniacs like me out there. Tiger is out, and, most important for us content creators and videophiles, the long-awaited Quicktime 7 is here at last.
H.264 support, multichannel sound, pixlet codec... All those things I have waited for months (more than a year in fact, the first time I saw H.264 footage was on your booth at NAB 2004, and I was stunned to say the least).
And today, I go to apple.com, eager to upgrade my production G5s to the latest Quicktime before buying Tiger... And I learn that to upgrade to Quicktime pro 7 I need to pay 30$.
This is extremely frustrating.
I had my Quicktime Pro license with the Production Bundle and another Final Cut Pro license. So I expect to have the Quicktime pro 7 license when I'll upgrade those two packages.
But if I want to watch those wonderful H.264 high definition teasers available on your website, I need Quicktime 7. And if I want my professional software to run I need Quicktime Pro. As Quicktime 7 overwrites Quicktime 6 I can't have both Quicktime pro 6 and Quicktime player 7 on the same machine.
So, as there is no way I will pay twice for the same thing (even if the price is small), I will have to wait for the Final Cut Pro studio bundle to come out before upgrading my macs (they are all in the post-production department) to Quicktime 7.
In the meanwhile, I'll have to wait the availability of Quicktime 7 for windows to be able to seee these wonderful footage available on your site (I really, really dig HD).
This is, as I said, extremely frustrating.
Content creators love Apple, because they love Apple software. Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Compressor are wonderful software. They are some of your best clients. I know I'm not the only DCC professional to complain about this move.
I don't know much about business, but I don't think frustrating some of your best clients like this is a good move.
I really hope Apple will come up with a good idea to correct this state of things. Making the upgrade to Quicktime 7 free (or at least a $30 coupon valid on professional software for the people who buy the upgrade) would be very nice.
Sincerely yours,
--
Francois Schneider
Directeur Numérique / Managing Digital Director
TouTenKartoon Canada Inc.
Today is a great day for all apple-maniacs like me out there. Tiger is out, and, most important for us content creators and videophiles, the long-awaited Quicktime 7 is here at last.
H.264 support, multichannel sound, pixlet codec... All those things I have waited for months (more than a year in fact, the first time I saw H.264 footage was on your booth at NAB 2004, and I was stunned to say the least).
And today, I go to apple.com, eager to upgrade my production G5s to the latest Quicktime before buying Tiger... And I learn that to upgrade to Quicktime pro 7 I need to pay 30$.
This is extremely frustrating.
I had my Quicktime Pro license with the Production Bundle and another Final Cut Pro license. So I expect to have the Quicktime pro 7 license when I'll upgrade those two packages.
But if I want to watch those wonderful H.264 high definition teasers available on your website, I need Quicktime 7. And if I want my professional software to run I need Quicktime Pro. As Quicktime 7 overwrites Quicktime 6 I can't have both Quicktime pro 6 and Quicktime player 7 on the same machine.
So, as there is no way I will pay twice for the same thing (even if the price is small), I will have to wait for the Final Cut Pro studio bundle to come out before upgrading my macs (they are all in the post-production department) to Quicktime 7.
In the meanwhile, I'll have to wait the availability of Quicktime 7 for windows to be able to seee these wonderful footage available on your site (I really, really dig HD).
This is, as I said, extremely frustrating.
Content creators love Apple, because they love Apple software. Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Compressor are wonderful software. They are some of your best clients. I know I'm not the only DCC professional to complain about this move.
I don't know much about business, but I don't think frustrating some of your best clients like this is a good move.
I really hope Apple will come up with a good idea to correct this state of things. Making the upgrade to Quicktime 7 free (or at least a $30 coupon valid on professional software for the people who buy the upgrade) would be very nice.
Sincerely yours,
--
Francois Schneider
Directeur Numérique / Managing Digital Director
TouTenKartoon Canada Inc.
posted by franssu, 16:56
