this is likely the last full year of OSX supported FCP7.

[Andrew Richards]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Does this happen in the background? Does it replace the legacy movie or are the legacy and AVF compatible movies somehow linked?”

As I understand it, QTP will pop up an alert dialogue offering to transcode legacy codecs to modern codecs supported under AV Foundation. I assume it creates a new file.

Best,
Andy

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Where did this quote originate?”
Hi
The link in the last para:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/197/859623

[Erik Lindahl]

Very interesting questions.

One thing Apple was very clear about at WWDC is the fact that the OSX QuickTime API is concidered obsolete but the QuickTime .mov container is still the prefered fileformat under AVFoundation depending on codec. They are not killing the fileformat or ProRes codec. Also, Adobe has complained about QuickTime being a 32-bit API for quite some time. Why not build their QT-support around AVFoundation? Still to immature? Lack of cross-platform?

[Juan Manuel]

Well, apparently, FCP7 works in the developer preview.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=17423718&postcount=26
It’s not going to be officially supported, but IIRC that’s also true for OSX 10.8