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G400TV, Avid Cinema support tools, Quicktime
Just thought I'd pass this little gem on to any G400TV owners still using Avid Cinema who are hassled by only being able to use QT 3.02 that came with the program. I posted this message in the Matrox Support forum:
I have a G400TV that came bundled with Avid cinema. I recently bought a video effects program (AlamDV), but it needs to have Quicktime 4 or greater to run. This is a hassle as Avid won't run unless QT 3.02 only is installed. So I have to install/uninstall the version of QT I need, depending on whether I need to use Avid or AlamDV at the time, which is a real hassle. Until I found...
Hunting through the Avid Cinema disk, looking to find QT 3, I stumbled on the support tools folder, and found the "DisableQTVersionTesting.reg" file. The text file with it said "Use this application to update Avid Cinema to disable QuickTime version testing during application launch."
I installed it, then immediately installed QT4, and viola!! I now can run QT4 and Avid Cinema!
I tested Avid, to see if it would work. Opened an old Avid project made when QT3.02 was installed, and it worked fine, could save to an Avid AVI, played back fine in WMP, all with QT4 installed.
I tested all the QT output modes of Avid Cinema, with QT4 installed and the Avid support tool reg file installed, and am pleased to report that ALL output modes of Avid QT play back perfectly in QT4.
I wouldn't have known about it if I hadn't been looking for something else on the disk. Has this been a well kept secret, or has everyone been using this for ages?
Graham
I have a G400TV that came bundled with Avid cinema. I recently bought a video effects program (AlamDV), but it needs to have Quicktime 4 or greater to run. This is a hassle as Avid won't run unless QT 3.02 only is installed. So I have to install/uninstall the version of QT I need, depending on whether I need to use Avid or AlamDV at the time, which is a real hassle. Until I found...
Hunting through the Avid Cinema disk, looking to find QT 3, I stumbled on the support tools folder, and found the "DisableQTVersionTesting.reg" file. The text file with it said "Use this application to update Avid Cinema to disable QuickTime version testing during application launch."
I installed it, then immediately installed QT4, and viola!! I now can run QT4 and Avid Cinema!
I tested Avid, to see if it would work. Opened an old Avid project made when QT3.02 was installed, and it worked fine, could save to an Avid AVI, played back fine in WMP, all with QT4 installed.
I tested all the QT output modes of Avid Cinema, with QT4 installed and the Avid support tool reg file installed, and am pleased to report that ALL output modes of Avid QT play back perfectly in QT4.
I wouldn't have known about it if I hadn't been looking for something else on the disk. Has this been a well kept secret, or has everyone been using this for ages?
Graham
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