Since it provided some compression for simple frame images while also providing lossless compression at the same time, which was useful for output if you wanted the highest quality in a rendered movie file that you might then re-compress and export for output to the web, or where ever.Ĭertainly the Catalina and beyond 'Quicktime Player' (which is a misnomer since it does not use the quicktime api at all) does not open these older quicktime files.Īnd Studio Artist V5.5 does not open them either. Which as you may recall was the default codec when you first booted up Studio Artist. It appears that the old 'animation codec' is one of the no longer supported formats. In fact, there are probably some of them inside of your Studio Artist Brush folder (associated with old presets that were movie brushes, or movie background texture brushes). So i'm guessing that there are many of you who have quicktime movies using some of these older codecs on your hard disk.

Unlike apple computer, we actually do care about our long time customers.

It's like they never existed (as far as apple computer is concerned).

And they love their long time customers so much that they provide no way to import the old formats either. Apple no longer supports some of the old quicktime movie codec formats.

Just a heads up for people as we move forward towards the SA V5.5 release.

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