Comments on: The Future of QuickTime & X-Plane (or lack thereof)

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:09:33 +0000

Ah proprietary platforms, dontcha just love em?

By: StEx

StEx — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:39:44 +0000

In reply to Pekka Sarnila. Yes ! Excellent for linux. I miss this function in my linux system (I do have a dual boot with W7, but I confess I never boot on windows).

By: tim gordine

tim gordine — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:14:15 +0000

X-Plane 9.70/10.11
MacPro3,1 /Snow Leopard 10.6.5
Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz x 2
6 GB Ram/Bus 1.6 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512mb

In my experience 3rd party vid apps for mac eat cpu ( iShowU HD etc.) Re.QT.v9 never quite locked @30fps 1280×720 v10 seems to lock around 20fps in both cases mostly the footage needs converting before going into FCP.That said QT is very convenient and the OS finder has no problem quick viewing the apple photo codec files( if you change this codec please make sure it plays nice with quick view!) .Do you propose settings like fps and size for the new system?Also not sure if the “offline recording” happens but in some cases ive been recording a “slide show” but the vid comes back relatively smooth so maybe it does something!

By: NLS

NLS — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:18:10 +0000

In reply to Chris Strosser. +10000 (only Mac-people don't see that)

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:53:14 +0000

In reply to Christer Hellholm. _Huge_. Some of us have SSD drives. ;-) Seriously, we're considering something only minorly compressed from raw.

By: kellpossible

kellpossible — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:11:41 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. So long as it's made possible to synchronise the audio with the video, I'm happy :-)

By: Oscar

Oscar — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:39:18 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik.

I actually thought that the replay mode was invented for just this purpose: I always make QT movies from replay mode, I thought in that way I sort of ‘baked in’ the framerates I had while flying…
(usually I fly with low settings and record in higher settings from the saved replay)

I thought everybody did it this way…

By: NLS

NLS — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:59:17 +0000

You might want to edit the title as it could be misread that X-Plane has no future… 😀

By: Christer Hellholm

Christer Hellholm — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:27:05 +0000

Why not capture and save to a RAW format? Then we users can convert it to more suitable format to e.g. h.264 with either your future tool or third party tool? By capturing in the RAW format will get very good video quality with low CPU/GPU resource.

I know that files will be huge, but it will go quickly and reduce the CPU/GPU resource. When the RAW movie is converted to more suitable format, we can throw away that huge RAW file.

By: Pekka Sarnila

Pekka Sarnila — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:26:09 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Excellent news for Linux users! Thanks.