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Rewrapping with QuickTime in Mountain Lion
So with ML, we can read AVHD structure with QuickTime.
I tried to read an orphan .MTS file with QT, then tried to export it (format: sequence).It results that QT can now rewrap mts files, even is AVCHD structure is lost !
No transcoding, just writing the new .mov file, H.264 and AC3 audio.
Maybe already noticed by someone, but pretty handy.
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Yes. I hope this extends out to other formats.
The new format is causing hiccups in Pr, however: https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2012/07/importing-avchd-media-into-premiere-pro-on-mac-os-x-v10-8-mountain-lion.html
What I hope this points to, is an AVFoundation universe free of QuickTime.
Sure, there’ll be some hiccups like the one above, but hopefully it will mean direct access to media essences without much trouble and at the OS level in 64bit.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What I hope this points to, is an AVFoundation universe free of QuickTime.”
Are you ready for a Quicktime free Windows? I don’t see Apple ever doing AVFoundation for Windows.
As long as Macs and Windows can run 32bit apps Quicktime will be around. When the time comes the OS can no longer run 32bit natively, there will be a 32bit “rosetta”
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[John Heagy] “Are you ready for a Quicktime free Windows? I don’t see Apple ever doing AVFoundation for Windows.”
I’m talking about the engine not so much the QT player.
Windows and other NLEs decode formats like AVCHD without QT already. With Mountain Lion, you don’t need to rewrap to .mov and use QT Player.
Yes, I’m certainly ready for more development like this on the Apple side. They have a lot of catching up to do.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m talking about the engine not so much the QT player. “
So am I. Windows without the Quicktime APIs is something I’m not ready for.
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I’m not saying Apple should kill the API completely, they haven’t so far, I’m just looking forward to AVFoundation on OSX, and it seems like this AVCHD playback is a very public display of it.
That’s all. 😉
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What I hope this points to, is an AVFoundation universe free of QuickTime.”
So QuickTime would be the “dark matter” of the Universe 😉
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[John Heagy] “So QuickTime would be the “dark matter” of the Universe ;)”
Down with QuickTime! All hail QuickTime…
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I tried to open a .mts file from an AVCHD camera folder and QuickTime wouldn’t open it.
But when I insert and SD card it sees the “private” folder and lets you open it with QuickTime to view the videos. But this doesn’t seem to work with archived folders.
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Maybe this is off-topic.. But I have tons of AVCHD-files and I use ClipWrap (see https://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap) to rewrap the files to a mov-format that FCPX can handle. ClipWrap does the job without transcoding.
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[Morten Hansen] “ClipWrap does the job without transcoding.”
As does FCPX. If you don’t transcode the media and use original quality, FCPX simply rewraps AVCHD to h264 like Clipwrap.
Jeremy
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