Quote Originally Posted by SourceChild View Post
Don't think of Quicktime on a Mac so much as the media player.

Quicktime actually refers the entire media engine in OS X. There are a collection of utilities which a media player only accesses to playback video.

In the case of Catalyst, it is simply a media player to the Kernel. The reason some codecs work well is because Richard integrated them into Catalyst. The reason others don't work well is because Catalyst forwards them to Quicktime from within itself in a manner which is not efficient for continuous frame.

If you're going to use Catalyst. Only use the three main codecs we discuss which are: PhotoJPEG, AIC, or DV.

PhotoJPEG at 50% to 75% depending on the quality needed but 50% is fine.
AIC (Apple intermediate Codec) which generally best overall.
DV (Either NTSC or PAL) which is a fixed ratio but most efficient codec.

Anything other than these will not perform well in Catalyst.
AIC is the ONLY thing that works at these huge sizes- ( DV isnt the most efficient any more AIC is - and you cant change image size )

i do a lot more things on the screen than quicktime player- it doesnt have any graphics processing- it buffers ahead- it doesnt have to deal with compositing more than 1 layers -