QuickTime convert .avi to .mov with OS X Mavericks

"I am sorry to say that Apple seems to be morphing into Microsoft"

I am totally agree with that!!!! It's sad....

I use to work on video edition to and i use quickview to choice my footage, and i will not convert all my videos. i think i will down grade to mountain Lion again.

Yes. After struggling with this issue for several days I reverted back to Mountain Lion. I just hope something "pops up" to fix this quickview issue before Mountain Lion is no longer supported!

Spoke to Apple today re my movies no longer playing AVI on Quicktime. Advised to use VLC application. Works a treat!! Hope that helps.

Rachel

I am a professional users, and I left 10 years of PC just to avoid this kind of, sorry for the less, ********...

Honestly I have gigas of files not running on my computer, since you decide to do this "amazing" upgrades

No, I don't want to loose my time to transform terra of files just because you let your users behind.

Please, just making phones and apps, and stop to make computers, I rater go back to pc than to stand more crap like those...

Unbelivable !!!

APPLE = PC !!!!

What I don't understand:

In Keynote my movies still play!

I guess Keynote still uses QuickTime 7 and my Perian plug-in?

But what if I only had Quick Time X?

rachelsmith wrote:

Spoke to Apple today re my movies no longer playing AVI on Quicktime. Advised to use VLC application. Works a treat!! Hope that helps.

Rachel

Sorry, but this is one of the biggest jokes I have read in this discussion: you spoke to Apple today? You must have a very deep contact to Apple... and if anyone there would advise you to use VLC, then that would be the flashing joke.

It is always very helpful to compare apples with beans: VLS is "just" a video player, QuickTime used to be a all-round solution for media.

Firstly, I apologise for putting in my "pennies worth" in regards to the AVI solution and that you found it "one of the biggest jokes you have read in this discussion". I was only trying to help and let people know that I personally had found a solution - how it came about has absolutely nothing to do with it. The main thing is after few frustrating days of trying to get my movies to work I contacted Apple (as I have always done the in past when it is free to contact their Tech Spport within 30 days of any new product or software update). They, as always, I found very helpful and also fixed a couple of things that have been playing up since downloading Maverick.

In regards to QuickTime being an all-round solution for media - that is not totally the case - it required Perian to play most formats. But Quicktime on its own is not an "all round solution". I have attached a Cnet review for your info. Please note in particular "Files that don't normally work on the Mac, all work using QuickTime with Perian handling the file formats". And now alas Perian is not updating to Maverick so after some sound advice from Apple I am using VLC and it has not let me down so far. There is an app. called NicePlayer that Perian are suggesting - I have tried it out and it works but not consistently - whereas VLC seems to be pretty consistent and reliable todate.

Hope this has been of some help to you!

Regards

Rachel

Rachel, don't sweat the forum trolls. Here's a cut and paste of my non-QuickTime X solution.

(I am a graphics artist and use the frame-by-frame step capabilities of QuickTime to get grabs from videos and the like, and VLC is very limited for that - though it DOES have a speed adjustment on sound that I *WISH* QuickTime would use - and I have NO idea if QuickTime Mutator still works.. and I just got an idea to try! Will get back on that.)

Start with QT 7.6.6. - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923 - this is the workhorse QuickTime version and with a paid 'Pro Key' you can buy from from Apple, you're given a serial number that opens the full functionality of the program (the free download just does playbacks) and you can do editing, trimming, aspect-ratio adjustments, add subtitle tracks, foreign language, compress, re-encode, transcode, rip audio.. you name it)

Get Perian, and install it. - http://perian.org

then VLC, - http://videolan.org

DivX - http://divx.com - and the

Flip4Mac package from Telestream - http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/

A52/AC3 downloader: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21875/a52codec - In this installer package there is an audio A52Codec.component. DO NOT USE IT! Throw it out and use the one that is linked below.

This is what I've put into my system and so far I've gotten every file to run fine, even my oldest videos.

These are codecs you should see.

In System/Library/QuickTime

AppleIntermediateCodec.component

AppleMPEG2Codec.component* (*optional if you've bought it)

DivX Decoder.component

Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component

Flip4Mac WMV Export.component

Flip4Mac WMV Import.component

In your Home/Library/QuickTime/

AC3MovieImport.component (you may or may not want this component, in some instances it causes conflicts. In my system, it doesn't. Who knows why? I don't.)

Perian.component

For AC3 sound that is in most .mkv files, you need the A52Codec.component, this is the one you want, here:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34821905/A52Codec.component.zip - unzip the file and put the component into the System/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components

Go back to your Perian settings and in the Audio Output button, set it to 'Multi Channel Sound' - Ignore the message Perian puts up and select it.

By doing a 'Get Info' on your files and where it says 'Open With' - default them to the QuickTime 7 program. Perian no longer will work with QuickTime Player so you must have QT 7.6.6 and set it so it is the default for all the filetypes you use.

It works perfectly with QT7. So far I've gotten ALL my old videos to play.

.avi, .mov (with the AC3 sound), .wmv, .flv, .mp4 and .m4v. all run fine as do all the older formats.

(I AM going to try the QT mutator if I can find an intel-native version anywhere..wish me luck on this!)

Deb.

Ha! Found it!

For those with QuickTime audio sync issues, this application works in Mavericks! It's also a pretty spiffy, clean player in it's own right. (It reminds me of Apple's QT predecessor, Movie Player)

So far I've not found a format it won't open, (of the types I have on my system that is) so I assume it is using the Perian codecs.

Takes care of those pesky audio problems on corrupted files.

QT Sync 3.3 : http://www.qtsync.com

Nice.

Deb.

Looking at all the posts that say things like "just get this other player", or "download this and install it, then get this other part or piece, then get another part to add to it, and then ...."

If we, the users, can put all these parts and pieces together to MAKE something that actually works .... why on God's Green Earth can't Apple simply package it all together and MAKE a video player that "Just Works"?!?!?!

Apple, I hope you are paying attention to just how much of an abject failure QT 10 is and how unusable it is for almost EVERYONE !!!

I'm not talking about just a few disenchanted users here .... I'm talking an across-the-board-effecting-everyone situation with a horrible piece of software that should never have seen the light of day.

When a video player that is three generations old can still run rings around the current offering .... something is seriously WRONG with this situation.

Now Apple, pull somebody's head out of where it doesn't belong and get the people that made QT 7 back to FIX THIS MESS !!!

Sorry, I must apologize - reading you post I just had to laugh because I could not believe that Apple really said to you to use VLC. So I thought it must be a joke. Sorry!

If Apple is not telling the people, that they can install QuickTime (if it is not already installed) and Perian to watch AVI movies (and all the other common formats), then the situation is even more worse then I thought.

For me, QuickTime is the all-round solution because

1.) I can edit my videos (cut, copy & paste, join, convert, rotate...) very easily.

2.) I can record and play videos.

3.) It supports QuickTime VR (panorama videos).

4.) QuickTime extensions are supported to read other formats then pure MOVs.

Perian is not updated for Mavericks, but works perfectly on Mavericks with QuickTime (32 bit) and any application which uses QuickTime and is 32 bit.

Thanks for your post, but most of you have forgotten the most important problem which is Quicklook and not QuickTime anymore. QuickTime can be replaced by VLC, QT 7 and so many others video players.

Quicklook is the main issue we have, not QT anymore.

Exactly. It's just the fact that Apple dicided to throw away functions that were useful and sometimes even crucial for efficient workflow.
What's the point of bringing out a state of the art Mac Pro and reducing the software that runs on it to the level of a Mobile OS??