Max Field Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Question to all the Windows familiar guys out there. Just saw this article stating that people on Windows machines need to uninstall Quicktime http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/ However I cannot edit without Quicktimes codecs, and can't figure out a way to ditch the program and keep the codecs. What are some alternative codec packs which can be installed to read prores files without the Quicktime being installed on the machine? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted September 12, 2016 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2016 It's funny you mention that because I use a program called MacGo for watching blu-rays on my Mac, and it can play ProRes files, but tonight I was comparing a ProRes file played on MacGo compared to Quicktime and there was a color and brightness shift on MacGo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Field Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Thanks for replying, do the codecs for MacGo also affect the color in a completely separate editor? Or is that exclusively within the player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted September 12, 2016 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2016 Within the player. It's a ProRes file which I'd normally use the QuickTime player for but I needed to grab frames. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff L'Heureux Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Lately, I've been watching ProRes files using DaVinci Resolve. It seems to not have the color/brightness shifts that I've noticed when opening the same files with quicktime or VLC, at least for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted September 21, 2016 Premium Member Share Posted September 21, 2016 VLC will play it and various other apps based on the ffmpeg libaries will read it and do things with it. I'm not sure what the long-term solution is for desktop apps like Premiere. You don't want to be transcoding everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Drysdale Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Here is AVIDs advice in the short term: http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/how_to/QuickTime-Support-and-Security-on-Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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