QuickTime and new codecs

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QuickTime and new codecs

I work in vídeo for the entertainment industry and the past few years have seen the arrival of some new and very efficient codecs when it comes to playing obscenely high resolution movies. One such codec is the NOTCH LC. Ironically these movies all use the QT container (.mov) and there is no way of playing back these files in any 64 bit Mac system. More so in the windows platform QuickTime 7 works a treat and plays this - and other gpu specific codecs - perfectly well. I find it tremendously irritating that I have to instal parallels on my M1 and then install QuickTime 7 to be able to play the newest technology out there. How complicated is it to add new playback codecs to QuickTime X? Why isn’t apple doing this?

Does anyone know of any solution that allows macOS to play NOTCH (as well as Hap)? So far other than parallels the only way to see these movies is to load them back into after effects but that is even a bigger faff!

Thank you.

Posted on Mar 13, 2022 5:23 AM

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Apr 3, 2022 10:25 AM in response to SnickZ.

Hi There

Thank you for your reply. It looks like the Notch encoder successfully installed itself in Adobe After Effects. I don't see any trace of it in Adobe Media Encoder. I also didn't notice any window informing about installing Rosetta.

I can encode movies with Notch on an Apple M1 with astonishing speed but I am still left with an annoying problem. Once the movies are encoded there is nothing on the Mac that will play the them so I can't preview any of the movies. I have installed Parallels and an old copy of QuickTime 7 and Notch for Legacy apps and it is ridiculous that I can encode movies really fast but to be able to see them I have to launch Parallels and QuickTime 7. Of all Apple BLUNDERS this one has to top the list!!!!!

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Apr 3, 2022 11:32 PM in response to Migsey

I'm having the exact same issue. Pretty sure this is a question for the NotchLC guys. TouchDesigner does load NotchLC files on the Mac M1 - if you need something to read files on the mac for the interm.

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SnickZ.

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Mar 14, 2022 8:02 AM in response to Migsey

Hey Migsey,

We're glad to help with using NORTH LC codec! Since you own a Mac with Apple Silicon, see if installing Rosetta helps: If you need to install Rosetta on your Mac - Apple Support

If it doesn't, we recommend reaching out to Notch for help with their product: Notch - CONTACT US - notch.one

All the best.

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