QuickTime convert .avi to .mov with OS X Mavericks

Try it and see :)

This is really SAD ... we can watch Avi files with MplayerX ... and so, by setting it as default for Avi files ... but no longer you can play it on the "Get Info" tab or while seaching on a simple folder ... it used to appear a small icon with the movie instead of the Avi file icon as now ...
Let's HOPE Apple can fix this ... and makes an update to solve ... because as it is changes a lot the way to use an iMac ou Macbook !!!!! for worst ...

... if i knew it ... i would probably not upadate to Mavericks ... well it was free ... i guess it could never be near perfection !!!!!

I'm really upset ... and wondering ... How many "surprises" Mavericks will bring in the future .. i've just started to use it ... and i'm already dissapointed ...!!

APPLE ... Please ... an Update to mavericks ... pleaaaseeee....

sorry for my bad or confusing English ... but I'm Portuguese ...

Rui

Nope... Quick look still not working...

Anyway, thanks for the tips.

Apple is you can see these topics, please do something for quicklook. I want quicklook to be able to preview .avi. Ideo files.

so sad it did't work. i wish quicklook and quicktime would play my avi's

i want my thumbnail previews back.

Mavericks is a disappointment. theres more missing features than new features

May be Apple should rename "QuickTime Player" to "AV Foundation Player" - on Mavericks the "QuickTime Player" is not based on QuickTime but on "AVFoundation".

"AV Foundation" is Apple's replacement for QuickTime - QuickTime is not (and never will be) supported for 64 bit applications (and the "QuickTime Player" on Mavericks is a 64 bit application).

The "QuickTime Player" on Mavericks is converting all movies which are not H264, MP4, M4V (and may be a few more formats) because "AV Foundation" can only read / play movies with this format. Exactly the same as on iOS.

Apple's plan for now and the future: they expect you to convert all your movies. And trash all "old movie formats" (like AVI, DivX, WMV). If you have any "QuickTime VR" (panorama) movies: forget it.

It seems that Apple is ignoring that the users still need "old movie formats" and do not want to wait for movie convertion - my camera is recording AVI movies for example, and I will not buy a new camera just because Apple has this plan.

Fortunately Flip4Mac and Perian as QuickTime extensions still work on Mavericks if you use 32 bit applications. And Mavericks is supporting 32 bit applications. So this is what you can do: install Flip4Mac and Perian on Mavericks and use a 32 bit application like the old "QuickTime Player".

Thanks for the update.

Sounds sad from Apple obliging all their customers converting their old videos.... 😐

It works with QT 7, you are right but do you have any tips to make QuickLook works again ??

Thanks again,

Please Apple fix this big problem.

Working with video editing, over 3000 videos that I see in the finder the thumbnail of the video, I do not see the quick time icon named "AVI".

I need to see the little icon with a thumbnail because I have to spend 5 times more of my time to whet the videos with another compatible video and know that I need to work.

With your help, I downloaded the Quick Time 7 and now I can open the AVI without conversion begins,

but someone has solved it for thumbnails or preview the video?

An update is essential because it affects the work.

Thanks

Derek--

Are you saying that quicklook still works for you with .mov files? It's not working for me at all. Totally *****.. ;(

Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

@kenergizer

Quicklook ONLY works on .mov-files that are compressend with the right codec: h.264. All other codecs (MotionJPG, Sorensen, etc etc) won't work on quicklook - event if they're called .mov.

OS X has done another step closer towards iOS, where also only h.264 is supported. That's a shame, considering that Apple used to be the no1 company for Video artists. If you have to download all kinds of third party products (VLC, MPlayer X) just to watch your content, then I really don't see the point.

@vjPulp

Thanks for that. Yes, what a shame. My love affair with Apple is starting to fizzle...actually it's been eroding as they keep "improving" things. I think I need to go get some chocolate now.

I can understand that apple wants people to use more solid and modern formats.

But if you have a collection of movies or as me working with 3d and composeting application for nearly 15 years it is a shame.

The Quick View functionn was so nice and made work fast and easy for me.

A shame that Quick Time or AVfrankenstein is not asking you what to do. You try to open a file with the expection that the content of your footage beeing played and what the **** it starts to "convert" ?

Are you sure apple? This is kind of a dictatorship. It dosn't even ask you!

They are talking about OS is tailored to be more energy efficient, and now it starts to convert files...

I'm lost i can not find the plot.

Quick Look for videos is doomed ... thanks apple.

Thank you for posting this issue - I just rolled back to OS X Mountain Lion and 'All is Well' again. I hope Apple will take the comments in this post seriously.

Hi,

I have not found the perfect solution, but this one is the best one yet, for me at least.
Use Adobe Bridge if you can, the preview/thumbnails work perfectly.

Btw, am in the same way Jbcnk, over 4k videos for editing and.....

cu guys

Thanks Dryler but I did try and nothing happened...

Adobe Brodge isn't working for thumbnail/preview for .avi videos that aren't on H264...

Perian no longer works in Mavericks, or at least that is what is being reported. I still have it installed and Quicktime 7 still works and opens .flv, .MP4 and probably other files that it opened before.

If you have QT 7 (I have the pro version) you can do a get info on one of your movie files, select Quicktime 7 under "Open With:" and click the change all button. From now on double clicking any file of that type will open it in Quicktime 7 instead of Quicktime X. No Quick Look, but at least you don't have to wait for conversions before viewing a movie file.

I'm still trying to figure out if Perian is letting QT 7 open the movies files that QT X isn't supporting. If so I'll leave it installed. It doesn't seem to be doing harm in any case.

Note that Perian is no longer being supported so a Mavericks version will not be forthcoming.

There is one advantage to using Quicktime X to convert files to .MOV files. Once you do so (and of course save the file) the file will open in Quick Look.