Loading PIC images in QuickTime

#1

I’ve come across this QuickTime install http://www.xsi-blog.com/archives/101
and after installing it, it still won’t work. QuickTime won’t load PIC file format images, even though I’ve toggled on the PIC/PICT support format. Any other suggestions ?

#2

pic/pict, is from the mac system, not softimage pic, totally different format.

#3

pic/pict, is from the mac system, not softimage pic, totally different format.

I know this, but QuickTime can load PIC file formats. Otherwise if it couldn’t that fix for QuickTime wouldn’t be around. How come that fix is not working ? Sure one could easily download another image viewer but that is the route I don’t want to go.

#4

both formats have the pic extension, it doesn’t mean they are the same format.
pic/pict for mac ARE NOT the same of softimage picture file pics.

#5

Regardless on if there Mac or Unix or AlienPicture Format. How can I get QuickTime to load the PIC file format ?

#6

You can’t! End of the story.
They are not a supported format in quicktime. You confuse extensions (meaningless), with formats.

#7

That is fine and dandy. That still doesn’t explain why that QT fix to enable PIC support, in-which I posted a link to within this thread, isn’t working.

Now that we have established who has given birth to the PIC format, which is Mac and I can rest a little easier knowing what I had already known, because I’ve been loosing massive amounts of sleep over this.

#8

The Softimage .pic codec still works, but the included install.bat doesn’t.

On a 64-bit system, copy the files to C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTComponents
that’s probably C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTComponents on a 32-bit system
just double-click the .pic file after that to test the install

#9

LuEric, a Big Thank you. Your explanation was clear and I was truthfully able to get it working. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Hopefully as per my other post, someone could explain how to create and composite reflective and refractive and specular passes. I’d prefer if someone could get to the meat of the answer as I know how to do the beginning steps.

#10

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