I think Apple gave up on QT and QTKit, so there is little incentive for them to recode a fully QT7-like modernized version. Mac OS went through a very confusing transition of video APIs, but now Mac OS and iOS use the same video frameworks and methods.
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From the Perian mailing list regarding Quicktime:
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"Part of the issue is that Perian is a QuickTime Plug-in. QuickTime is a 32-bit-only technology, and Apple is moving away from 32-bit. If they were to keep maintaining it, they would be using outdated APIs that Apple will (if they have not already) pull the plug on support. In fact, I'd be surprised if Perian even builds in Xcode 4.4
From what I can tell, the only replacement for QuickTime Codec plug-ins is VideoToolbox introduced in Mountain Lion. However, it seems that documentation on how to use it is sparse at the moment. If someone was able to wrap ffmpeg around a VideoToolbox plug-in, then applications that use AVFoundation wouldn't need to depend on Perian."
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Seems something was introduced in Mountain Lion. It's just that nobody is fully sure what it does
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"Part of the issue is that Perian is a QuickTime Plug-in. QuickTime is a 32-bit-only technology, and Apple is moving away from 32-bit. If they were to keep maintaining it, they would be using outdated APIs that Apple will (if they have not already) pull the plug on support. In fact, I'd be surprised if Perian even builds in Xcode 4.4
From what I can tell, the only replacement for QuickTime Codec plug-ins is VideoToolbox introduced in Mountain Lion. However, it seems that documentation on how to use it is sparse at the moment. If someone was able to wrap ffmpeg around a VideoToolbox plug-in, then applications that use AVFoundation wouldn't need to depend on Perian."
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Seems something was introduced in Mountain Lion. It's just that nobody is fully sure what it does
The new video kit of OS X is called AV foundation, which is the core of QTX as well. Both iMovie, FCPX use AV foundation and not QTKit. QTKit has been claimed EOL since SL. The fact that QTX did not get all the features of QT7 Pro is because it stopped making sense for Apple to charge for editing features which are already inside iMovie. When you get iMovie for free with every new Mac, nobody would buy QTX Pro for 30$. Not to mention, editing within QT 7 have always been a bust compared to actual NLE's.
I found it to be more promising when filing a bug report at the link below:
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/....woa/wa/signIn
Once you do this you can be quite sure that the issue is retrieved and followed up. Issues like the slow shutdown times and Airport problems for example seemed to be of interest as Apple asked for sysdiagnoses and protocols.
Sure it doesn't make sense to try and charge $30 for QT pro (frankly I don't think it ever did) but that's no reason for the functionality to not be available. There's still a need for basic things like trimming a movie and resaving, or file conversion, or exporting audio, or just adding an audio file to a movie, none of which should require a full NLE to do. Not to mention that using even iMovie for those things is a pain compared to QT7.
Saying QT player doesn't need those features is like saying Apple doesn't need the textedit app since Pages exists.
And if AV foundation is the new 64 bit version of QT, Apple needs to support it in their own apps beyond the two for video editing, like Logic. But I guess that would require the programmers to do some actual work.
Your opinion is far from objective. Most of the things you list are enjoyed by me, and likely many others. You may subjectively dislike those features, but don't pass of your opinion as fact.
I think someone needs to point out to you that Craig (at least spell his name correctly) took over as head of OSX in 2011. Lion was previewed to everyone in 2010, when Bertrand Serlet was still in-charge of its development; so I don't really see how it can be Federighi's fault?
Bertrand had nothing to do with 10.7. He was on his way out, and at that time there was no S.V.P. of S.E. at Apple. Craig was acting head of S.E. at the time of Bertrand's departure. Read up on it, it's very interesting.
Oh, and thanks for pointing out my typo.
Please don't rudely correct someone with false information. You catch more flies with honey...
As for your statement, that's incorrect.
Source:
Mac OS X software chief Bertrand Serlet to depart Apple
The article and news was announced in March, 2011, and from Serlet himself:
Which means CrAIg [no typo there] had been heading OS X development for two years prior to March, 2011, hence his return to Apple in 2009 (doing the math in case it's confusing). Federighi was not announced officially on Apple's board of directors until October, 2012.
It seemed until recently no one had taken over as Senior VP of Software Engineering. No one had that title until Craig Federighi was [finally] listed on Apple's Executive Profiles. Here is an interesting article about the fate of OS X (I don't agree with all of it, but the writer has some valid points):
Another Crystal Clear Sign That OS X Is Going to Die Really Soon
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These are not statements of fact, rather they are opinions that are personal to you. Regardless if there are any nuggets of truth within your post, you come across as aggressive and forceful and that is no way to conduct yourself on a forum or anywhere for that matter.
What made Snow Leopard the very best OS X release (to date) was that Apple said out of the gate that attention was going to be focused not on new features (e.g no new "social" features), but on PERFORMANCE and STABILITY.
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with 10.8.2 and a 2007 MBP with 10.6.8. I still like the ride MUCH better with 10.6.8 and don't plan on EVER updating my MBP to Lion or Mountain Lion. If it ain't broke.....
Only Snow Leopard measures up to the phrase that "used" to apply to Apple products...."it just works".
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with 10.8.2 and a 2007 MBP with 10.6.8. I still like the ride MUCH better with 10.6.8 and don't plan on EVER updating my MBP to Lion or Mountain Lion. If it ain't broke.....
Only Snow Leopard measures up to the phrase that "used" to apply to Apple products...."it just works".
I've honestly been very happy with the performance and stability of Mountain Lion, though I do have high hopes for the future.
Leopard was a release with a host of new features, along with a host of bugs and occasional issues. Snow Leopard was what Leopard should have been. I think the same may come of future versions. I think it's a smart move for Apple to move to smaller, cheaper, incremental updates over large and potentially disastrous ones. In turn we have a more frequent release cycle and less new features per release, but hopefully more stability.
Works fine in OS X.7 used it couple times at work
only did it to try to see if it worked and it worked
Actually, Quicktime X can trim movies, it can export to a few different types of movie, and you can export audio only. Don't think you can add audio to a movie, but 3 out of 4 aint bad.
Actually, Quicktime X can trim movies, it can export to a few different types of movie, and you can export audio only. Don't think you can add audio to a movie, but 3 out of 4 aint bad.
True about trim, but video and audio exports have extremely limited options compared with the QT7 - for audio the only option is literally "audio only", no settings available at all. And while it does have trim, it's still missing basics like copy/paste as well as less info in the info window, and no more movie properties and AV controls windows, both of which included a number of info and options.
I'm pretty sure the new version of Logic will be based on it, and your old Quicktime 7 Pro still works. So Apple isn't taking away a functionality. They only aren't putting it inside the new Quicktime. I do have a QT Pro licence yet I haven't used Quicktime for some editing work for a long time now. iMovie seems much easier for the type of stuff I do. Text Edit / Pages example is not the right kind of analogy imho. Apple still has Quicktime and iMovie. One is for viewing, the other is for creating. I think it's the same for Pages/ Text Edit. I use Text Edit to read things but I'd rather type in Pages if the stuff I type is going to be longer than a page.
But, as a viewer app, Quicktime Player X needs picture controls, which is still missing. So I don't really mind the editing features being obsolete, but I do mind the viewer ones being obsolete, since they are now touting it as a viewer app.
I guess we disagree about textedit as well, it's absolutely a "creation" app and plenty of people use it that way. Apple's app for just "viewing" would be preview, and even that seems to have more editing features than QTX.
And we'll have to see about Logic, hopefully the next major update will bring back all the missing video features in 64 bit mode, but we'll see. It's about time, three years those features have been gone.
And we'll have to see about Logic, hopefully the next major update will bring back all the missing video features in 64 bit mode, but we'll see. It's about time, three years those features have been gone.
First, QT 7 isn't hardware accelerated so though it works, it's wretched in terms of performance, and that is a major problem. Second, to do anything in iMovie you have to import the entire film which takes considerable time, and only then you can work on it. If all I want to do is make a quick modification to the video/audio, there should be an easy solution, which is why QT 7 was so useful. Third, iMovie has existed since 1999, so it has existed alongside QT 7 and before, for a while now, yet we still found QT 7 Pro useful and worthy of those features. I don't see why everything changes now that we have QT X.
The same pattern has emerged in other areas too. Just compare Airport Utility 5.6 with Airport Utility 6, the latter has a nicer newer interface but its features are severely limited and there doesn't seem to be much happening to lead us to think they will be fully restored.
Because the 'graphics drivers' will hopefully improve the annoying choppy animations.
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I'm one of the 425 million (Or at least I was until I got a smart phone and started running a Window VM on my Mac at work, so I can check my email using my the Mail app on my Mac host machine). That doesn't make the interface any less crap. People will put up with a lot of crap for free or cheap. Android's proof of that.
And I use MS all the time. I have to. It's my job. I have a long, long history with MS. And I can say with certainty this: Throughout the years, the rarely "get it." Windows 8 is proof of that.
No question Logic is a low priority for them, but there just isn't any reason to expect them to totally scrap the app and start over like FCX.