QuickTime Update Disables NLE Apps-DRM issue

[kbob]

Several posts on apple and adobe message boards, along with slashdot, are reporting that the latest iteration of quickTime, version 7.4-the very one that enables movie rentals-also disables rendering in many different NLE apps, though most of the issues appear ironically enough to be on mac platforms, not windows.

[AlexH237]

It also stops AE renders.

[kbob]

It appears you can work around the AE issue, although it is clumsy. Evidently it fails roughly every 10 minutes for a drm test, possibly related to the new ability to rent videos online. At that point, your render fails, but some have had success by picking up the render from that point, and repeating until done. Sigh...

[AlexH237]

Originally Posted by kbob

It appears you can work around the AE issue, although it is clumsy. Evidently it fails roughly every 10 minutes for a drm test, possibly related to the new ability to rent videos online. At that point, your render fails, but some have had success by picking up the render from that point, and repeating until done. Sigh...

I guess now you need rights to watch your own videos...

[kbob]

It's starting to remind me of the DAT & Mini disc debacle in the early 90's. You could make a single copy, but not two or more, from the same source-even if you were recording original music-unless you spent more than $1000 for the deck. Then, somehow, it was considered to be a pro deck, and the copyright protection hard wired in wasn't active. Really pinched my budget when I was doing mobile recording works for up and coming local Christian bands. $3000 was a lot just for an ADAT, then buying a double priced DAT machine...and that was when blank cd recordable media cost around $25 a blank, unless you literally bough in quantities of 1000 or more, when the price dipped to $15 a disc.

Sigh...

I'm guessing that they're planning on disabling the ability to make multiple copies of blu ray or hd dvd recorders too-and keep the prices too high for there to be any competition from home recorders.

Personally though, I think online rental will get here soon enough to disrupt the optical disc technology roll out.

[MediaGuy]

Originally Posted by kbob

Personally though, I think online rental will get here soon enough to disrupt the optical disc technology roll out.

It's already here - I like my Netflix player, although I've only gotten it to work successfully in iExplorer.

I hope that rights management will start focusing on the creation of media, instead of the distribution. It seems to be a losing battle for everyone these days to try to restrict copying. The only thing that can (almost) truly be controlled is the initial release.