After Effects 7 users: QuickTime 7.4 update a nono

Thank you for your tips! I spent a good part of the day trouble-shooting and had copied an old QT version into the apps folder -- did not work, but Pacifist did the trick.

To answer one of the questions above, QT 7.4 aborts any render in AE that takes longer than 10 minutes. The 'permission' error does not have anything to do with your file or drive (was my first thought as well) - but it assumes (!!) that you are illegally copying material. I DO hope this is an unintentional bug... + we get a quick fix from Apple.

Hey Steve Jobs, don't make me leave your Mac fan club!!

I had this issue two in the midst of a tight motion graphics deadline where I work and it prevented us from using two of our Mac workstations for rendering.

However using Pacafist to install Quicktime 7.3.1 and the previous version of iTunes worked a treat. Now those two machines are back in action.

No matter what OS you use, if you need your computer for work you NEVER update until you are fully sure that whatever applications you need will work with the update. Updating and hoping for the best is just stupid - especially if you work with video or audio and you update QuickTime. Just be patient. Let someone else make the mistake!

7.4 screws up itunes as well. I couldn't watch videos in iTunes until I downgraded to 7.3.1 :)

just download 7.3 from here

Leopard
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731forleopard.html

Tiger http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime731fortiger.html


Then get pacifist and install 7.3 over 7.4 and OVERWRITE IT don't update. Repair permissions reboot and everything should work good again

QT 7.4 + AE 8.0...rendering fails for NTSC Widescreen with "error -54 : no permission to open video."

Another weird thing I had after updating to QT7.4 was that some of my codecs (for FCP) disappeared (and no, I'm nowhere near Bermuda).

Cheers,
FL

I've had no problems so far.

The issues are not limited to After Effects 7.0. AE CS3, Premiere Pro and a handful of non-Adobe applications (some of which are mentioned here) are also apparently impacted by QuickTime 7.4.

The good news is that After Effects is not completely disabled by the QuickTime 7.4 update. It would be more accurate to say that rendering to QuickTime is disabled. If you are rendering sequences of PSD, Tiff, or OpenEXR images, there should be no problem.

As far as I know, the main reason to upgrade to QT 7.4 would be to rent movies via iTunes. If you don't need to rent movies from iTunes, it's probably best to hold off on this update.

I'll post more information on my blog as it becomes available:
http://blogs.adobe.com/keyframes

Regards,

Michael Coleman
Product Manager, Adobe After Effects

I've posted on my website the steps to take to downgrade from QT 7.4 if you're an After Effects user who needs the render functionality back.

This is indeed a well documented in the online community and there is no fix for it yet.

http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=39

Any word if you are using AE CS3 (aka version 8)?