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 HD Quick Look - 1.0quick Look plug-in for AVCHD movies |
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.0: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (1.0) |
Features: | (1.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.5) |
Price: | (1.0) |
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Poor-Neutral - Version: 1.0, 8/14/2008 03:05AM PST
stylus808
VersionTracker lost the ratings from my review below. So, here they are again...
Something Better Than Nothing? - Version: 1.0, 8/13/2008 04:49AM PST
stylus808
Quick Look can be a very useful function, but it's only as good as the plug-ins for it. In the case of this plug-in, it falls far short of the mark. As the first plug-in to provide a thumbnail for AVCHD movie files, it delivers a basic image. However, it goes no further. Whereas QuickTime movies in Quick Look are fully playable, and can be viewed at full resolution, and scaled up to full screen, this plug-in only shows a low-resolution thumbnail. Even in full screen view, you just get a big blocky version of the same thumbnail. Also, the thumbnail it displays is the first frame of video - which is not always useful for identifying a video clip. For functionality, this delivers the bare minimum, and to add insult they charge $7.99 for this.
- Can't actually play video - just a still image
- Thumbnails don't scale up
- Only the first frame of video
- Overpriced
- Can't actually play video - just a still image
- Thumbnails don't scale up
- Only the first frame of video
- Overpriced
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- Something Better Than Nothing?
For the first time I can now at least see a thumbnail preview of all my clips, whether they are still on the camera, or when I've got clips on my hard drive. Its pretty quick to generate the thumbnails - about the same as Quicktime when you are looking at MOV files.
It doesn't let you play the clips, but I've also used the AVCHD player that is bundled with Toast9, and that just doesn't work on my Mac Book Pro - incredibly slow, even for a small size preview. I've accepted that playing AVCHD files on my Mac isn't going to happen for a while, so HD quick look is the next best thing.