SIMPLEMOVIEX 64BIT MAC OS X
SIMPLEMOVIEX 64BIT MAC OSX

The bottom line for SimpleMovieX users: It is not necessary to install QuickTime 7 app in Snow Leopard (or to have a QTPro key) to make SimpleMovieX work.Ĭonclusion: SimpleMovieX 3.9.2 will be equivalent to earlier versions in features and performance. QuickTime X is a work in progress that will need, I predict, 5 years or more to supplant good’ol QuickTime 7. SimpleMovieX does not take advantage of the new framework, because of very strong limitations as of 10.6 release. If you need anything beyond basic trimming, you will need to install QuickTime 7 application or better, use SimpleMovieX.įramework-wise, Snow Leopard comes by default with both QuickTime X and QuickTime 7. The application is very limited in editing functionality. QuickTime X refers to a new player/editor application and also to a new framework. Here Apple has done a good job confusing everybody. I believe that version 4, a paid upgrade due next year, should really take advantage of the new â€œstate of artâ€. SimpleMovieX will require a major rewrite before it can use them directly. SimpleMovieX will take advantage of those technologies passively: GCD and OpenCL will not make SimpleMovieX perform better per se, but the OS and QuickTime can be faster and SimpleMovieX will benefit. There is no intention to drop 10.4 support soon, at least until new major version 4.0 comes out.

SIMPLEMOVIEX 64BIT MAC OS X

SimpleMovieX 3.9.2 will continue supporting Mac OS X 10.4.11 and higher. Therefore, Snow Leopard users that haven’t installed Rosetta will be invited by SimpleMovieX to do so, otherwise MPEG functionality will not work. But Rosetta is not installed by default in Snow Leopard. In Leopard, Rosetta, the PowerPC emulation tool, would transparently take care of this.

SIMPLEMOVIEX 64BIT MAC OSX

Older PowerPC models can still run SimpleMovieX from Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard).Ī small problem arises for Snow Leopard users: Some components of SimpleMovieX are still PowerPC binaries, and they will probably not migrate to Intel anytime soon. The bottom line is that SimpleMovieX 3.9.2 will ship as a 32-bit Universal binary. Could be what happens in the next major release of SimpleMovieX. SimpleMovieX cannot compile in 64 bit because legacy QuickTime APIs are not available (only Cocoa QTKit).įor 64-bit apps using legacy QuickTime, a 32-bit process is automatically generated by the OS.

I will have missed the end-of-month deadline by a couple of days, because I had underestimated the changes that Snow Leopard is bringing. Version 3.9.2 that runs on Snow Leopard is just a few hours away! Update 9 October: SimpleMovieX 3.9.2 is out!

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