Existing users, 
This seems like a pretty pointless and broken application. The UI is non intuitive and very un-Mac like. Very limited features. I added some movies from remote drive at one point and now they are stuck there. If I try to delete them the app crashes with exception error. While it shows movies in a list, it is not a play list. The skip forward and back button don't seem to work. In general I like the apps from Radical breeze, but this seems like someone playing around with Xcode for fun, not something to be released as complete product, let alone something to ever consider charging for.
Get VLC. It has a ton of features, is free and is a finished product.
Footlights
movie player w/effects, exporting, fullscreen
Version: 2.1
Am I missing something?
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: smhill Friday, February 24 2006 @ 01:40 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Terminology - Mike Waterfall SW
"QuickTime Pro doesn't have those features... but Footlights does."That's because QuickTime Pro is a license, not a program. The QuickTime API supports some of those features, then the CoreGraphics API handles others.
I think you mean QuickTime Player doesn't support some of those features. ;)
Tuesday, March 21 2006 @ 01:19 PM PST
VLC comparison? - sjk
Sure, VLC has a ton of features (the majority of which most users will never need) but it's certainly neither intuitive or Mac-like. And I seriously doubt it's a finished product.Saturday, February 25 2006 @ 10:42 AM PST
VLC comparison? - smhill
The interface is no better or worse than footlights. And as far as features go, that doesn't make much sense. While vlc does have many extra features that users won't use, that seems to the foundation for footlights. Transparent playback, rotating a playing movie? Are those and more useful than vlc's features?I am not saying vlc is great or complete, but it is far more functional as a player and it is free.
Saturday, March 04 2006 @ 10:42 PM PST
... it has many features that even QT Pro does not - BryanLAS
Realtime playback effects. Transparent playback windows. Searchable movie list thumbnail view. A smaller, less cluttered interface. QuickTime Pro doesn't have those features... but Footlights does.While there are many features coming to Footlights (some of which I don't think anyone has ever seen in a video player) it is already a very feature rich video playback (and exporting) application. Heck, how many video players let you free rotate your playing video or adjust the gamma settings in realtime?
As for the bug you ran into with videos that are no longer available on your drive... that's definitely a legitimate problem. Luckily we've got a fix that should be released within the hour. :)
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Friday, February 24 2006 @ 09:38 PM PST