Comments on: Softimage .pic Codec for QuickTime

By: Luc-Eric

Luc-Eric — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:06:33 +0000

Alright, I’ve re-uploaded the file, thanks

By: Packman

Packman — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:23:14 +0000

Is it no available? I can’t get it.

By: Luc-Eric

Luc-Eric — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:13:58 +0000

alright I’ve posted a preliminary OS X (10.4) version of the codec

By: Edin Gacic

Edin Gacic — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:19:52 +0000

Can you please make a OSX version since at work we use Mac”s for video editing/ compositing and most of the time they have to open up After Effects to just see my .pic renderings from XSI ;)

Hope you release it soon!

By: XSIBlog » Blog Archive » QuickTime .pic Codec Updated

XSIBlog » Blog Archive » QuickTime .pic Codec Updated — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:28:27 +0000

[...] ail with a .pic attached and would have liked to be able to just click on it to see it? My Softimage .pic codec for QuickTime has been updated with a bug fix for an corrupted image issue reported by a few [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:07:58 +0000

Thanks very much for this Luc-Eric.
The codec works on XP64 (32 bit Quicktime of course) but with a couple of minor issues. Through trial and error, I found that dropping your .qtr and .qtx files into the Program Files(x86)\Quicktime\QTSystem folder got it to work, except that when the image sequence first loads it shows a corrupted image. Hitting Play or just stepping one image fixes everything. Is there a different location where the codec files should be placed for XP 64?

By: Luc-Eric

Luc-Eric — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:32:03 +0000

No it''s more complicated that this. Building a universal binary vs building an old-style binary that works for PowerPC only is two different version of both the compiler and the Quicktime SDK. It''s They don''t work the same way - bundles are only for universal binaries, it''s a directory structures. Old-style, it''s a single binary with a resource fork. Also one of the XCode version broke the QT SDK (I think there was an update since). If you are at ease with OSX developement and creating resources ''thng'', I can indeed send you the Windows source - it will require studying and decifiering the ElectricImage sample in the QuicktimeSDK.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:58:30 +0000

Oops, sorry… Yes, I”d like to be able to load the .pic files from Quicktime on Mac OS X. I”m using all kinds of CPU, but my principal “burners” are still on Power PC G5 Cpus.. But from my experience, when one platform is working, it”s only a few clics away from the other (PowerPC to Universal Bin..). As for the OS, I”m using the latest update of 10.4.7.

Thanks

By: Luc-Eric

Luc-Eric — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:52:16 +0000

Olivier, I haven”t looked at this since posting the article. Are you really talking about an OS X version of this quicktime component, and if so which CPU and OS version?

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:34:05 +0000

Hi Luc Eric!

Have you had any luck with your Plugin bundle? I”d like to create quicktime movie directly from our render through the Quicktime API (Actually I just build a tool to replace our previous pipeline and we are using it for everything but .PIC). If you don”t mind sharing the code I could have a look and try to see if I can figure out something.

Thanks,
Olivier