Aperture video import and playback with Mountain Lion GM

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Aperture video import and playback with Mountain Lion GM

Hi,

I recently upgraded my new, latest generation MacBook Air to Mountain Lion (Gold Master). Since then, Aperture won't play the videos in my library anymore. It does display the thumbnail preview images (they have obviously been generated before), but it can't play the video and does not even show the video controls for playback. The videos I am talking about are all taken with my Sony NEX-3, which should be supported out-of-the-box.

Right now I can not even import new videos from my camera, as Aperture just tells me it does not know how to handle the video files (and proposes to just save the files somewhere in the file system instead of importing them into my Aperture library).

Is my installation corrupt? Am I missing some basic video codecs? Is Aperture not (yet) ML-compatible?

Any hints?

Cheers,

Dan

Macbook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jul 24, 2012 3:25 AM

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jimbim Author

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Jul 24, 2012 3:29 AM in response to jimbim

Another observation: If I open my Aperture library in iPhoto, I can play the videos, but they are played in slow motion and the sound is not synchronized.

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Answer 2

Jul 24, 2012 5:07 PM in response to jimbim

" I recently upgraded my new, latest generation MacBook Air to Mountain Lion (Gold Master)."

Do you have some sort of inside track ?? Mountain Lion........to my knowledge has not been released yet. I have heard that it will be available tomorrow July 25 th.

Are you perhaps on LIon ? Your signature is OSX 10.5.3 ?

Also what version of Aperture are you using and what codec is your camera recording in? I think your camera has a few different codecs it can be set to for recording.

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Jul 24, 2012 8:06 PM in response to Michigan One Fly

Mountain Lion releases are available to registered Apple Developers and other means. So there are "official" ways to get pre-releases of Mountain Lion.

That said, these programs have an NDA as well, which generally prohibits any of this sort of discussion prior to the general release of the product. There ARE places this can be discussed (developer forums or elsewhere depending on how you got Mountain Lion).

Questions/answers related to Mountain Lion here... should wait until it ships, which looks to be tomorrow.

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jimbim Author

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Jul 24, 2012 11:02 PM in response to jimbim

Thanks everybody,

my company is developing Mac Apps, that's why I am a registered developer and have access to prerelease versions of OS X - in this case the (hopefully) final build of 10.8 Mountain Lion.

I have posted my question here because I am not sure if this is Mountain Lion related or not and I will not talk about ML in any way. I agree that I might better have waited before posting this question.

I am using Aperture 3.3.1 and my camera records 720p in h.264 (MPEG-4) format. I _have_ imported many of those videos into Aperture before and I also have lots of them in my library. The problem I have now is that I suddenly can not play those videos anymore, and I can not import new ones either. As I do not watch videos every day it could be possible that this behaviour was already introduced in the last Aperture update.

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léonie

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Jul 25, 2012 2:31 AM in response to jimbim

jimbim,

we asked the community host in similar cases how to deal with Aperture questions, if Aperture is running in combination with pre release software, and the hosts advised us not to discuss these questions here. And as we are all guests here we should respect their wishes.

It would be difficult anyway; we could not ask for screenshots, console messages, crash logs, terminal listings. everything would be in violation of the non-disclosure agreements.

Some general advice with videos that will not play:

- Are the videos referenced? Try, if they will play if you make them managed.
- Aperture has been known, to not to be able to play video, if the library is in a shared folder.
- Check, if you have third party video codecs installed, like the 3ivx codec.

Aperture 3: About Video and Audio formats in Aperture:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4025

Regards

Léonie

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jimbim Author

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Jul 25, 2012 2:33 AM in response to léonie

Thanks Léonie,

I will respect our host's wishes and stop discussing this here (until this afternoon?) ;-)

Best regards,

Dan

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léonie

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Jul 25, 2012 2:37 AM in response to jimbim

(until this afternoon?)

😀

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jimbim Author

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Jul 25, 2012 7:57 AM in response to jimbim

Mountain Lion and Aperture 3.3.2 have just been released (at least here in Germany) and the problems I described above still persist: Aperture can not play the videos in my library. If I open my Aperture library in iPhoto 9.3.2 the videos play without problems. I still can not import videos from my NEX-3 into Aperture - will try to import via iPhoto now.

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léonie

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Jul 25, 2012 8:23 AM in response to jimbim

O.K., I also have ML-GM installed, but not your camera. For your camera the codecs are listed as part of Mac OS Lion, directly built into the system.

Maybe in ML it will help to register the camera with the lauch services database - see this post by Alan Roseman

:Aperture 3 preview of raw file greenish, but read the follow up posts first (the lsregister command) as well, on how it is supposed to work andhow to correct the typos.

This worked previously, when some cameras were not registered, but the support was built into the OS.

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Jul 25, 2012 9:00 AM in response to jimbim

Same Problem here!! All old Videos cant open in Aperture!!😐

Regards

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Jul 25, 2012 10:12 AM in response to Snoopy5707

The new update claims to bring ML and Aperture into compliance with each other:

http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/07/25/aperture.iphoto.get.mountain.lion.compati bility/

-Allen

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léonie

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Jul 25, 2012 10:31 AM in response to jimbim

I just checked again the list of supported video for Aperture. This list is not exhaustive, but I am not longer sure that your camera's video is supposed to supported.

Aperture 3: About Video and Audio formats in Aperture:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4025

and the Sony NEX 3 is not on that list. Can it be that you had third party video codec installed previously, like flip-for-mac, that you not yet installed after upgrading to Mountain Lion?

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Answer 13

Jul 25, 2012 10:42 AM in response to jimbim

i think is not a Problem with Aperture 3, but with ML. I have a lot of videos that were already in the library and also worked. I go back with TM to older Libriary and Aperture, but same Problem. No play and no import with any Videos.

Now i make a clean ML install and test again.

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jimbim Author

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Jul 25, 2012 11:24 AM in response to léonie

Hi Léonie,

my camera is on the list of supported cameras: Sony Alpha NEX-3.

I have never had any additional codec packs like perian/3ivx and the like installed. It just worked out-of-the-box with Lion. And, like I said, the problem persists even with Aperture 3.3.2 (published today).

I have the feeling that it might have something to do with a newer version of Quicktime, which is supposed to be handling all video-related stuff in Mac OS X.

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Answer 15

Jul 25, 2012 11:32 AM in response to jimbim

ok 🙂 After a clean installation of ML i can open Aperture. The Library and all Videos works!

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