FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] Ajaxian » Apple goes live with HTML5 video

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] Ajaxian » Apple goes live with HTML5 video

For those living in a cross-platform cross-app world (even if just the 4 A s), QuickTime has been problematic even if the best option. If Apple is slow to update QuickTime on the Mac itself, you can imagine the priority given to third parties. It's good to hear an Apple insider's reassurances on QT, given the goofs they made by trying to control gamma even after realizing they couldn't dominate the web. Maybe there will be 64-bit QT on Windows someday.

Maybe you're right -- after all pro Mac users are taken care of well with codecs. It's a competitive advantage, so why should Apple take the lead on debabelizing and creating an industry standard for production? The real money is in selling gadgets anyway.

Rich

--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Philip Hodgetts <philip@intelligentassistance.com> wrote:

On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Rich Young wrote:

> And bye-bye QuickTime
HTML 5 brings nothing to the production table, and production is the

only place "QuickTime" is still used. For Distribution Apple have

pushed MP4 H.264 pretty much exclusively for the last five years. .MOV

for distribution has been deprecated completely.

But HTML 5 doesn't help with anything mentioned in that article.

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