Q: Mavericks Quicktime Player converts everything to ProRes??
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Jul 14, 2014 2:21 PMby zombiehunter,I am in the same boat. I work in Hollywood and am in the middle of a project when we switched over to Mavericks so we could use the new Apple Codecs. It has ruined our pipeline and really destroyed our faith in Apple products. We have over 30 edit/vfx bays here and have spent over half a million dollars in apple computers and products over the past 10 years and we will be starting the switch to PC after this fiasco. Ever since Final Cut X came out they have just taken a nose dive. I am just sad. I used to be very Apple gung ho, but more and more it feels like they have abandoned the professional film maker. To me 10.6 was the last great operating system...RIP.
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Jul 25, 2014 9:50 AMby nedwilson1,Hey all,
Also work in post production and am on a 2013 Mac Pro. Currently, I'm on Mavericks 10.9.4.
Ron, you are absolutely right. What Avid needs to do is release a new version of the DNxHD codec that is compatible with AVFoundation. When Avid takes care of this, QT X will no longer convert files, thumbnails and icons will work correctly, and the beloved Quick look functionality will be restored.
Navarro, be careful about RV64. RV64 and its various versions (RVIO, RV-SDI) do NOT support playback of DNxHD Quicktimes. The 32-bit version may still have support, but I'm not entirely sure. I have gone back and forth with Tweak software on this a bunch of times. I was particularly irritated about this because we bought a license of RVIO to do batch transcoding on the last show, only to discover that it would not work with the footage that was provided by editorial. According to Tweak, DNxHD is not an open source codec, and they were unable to negotiate a licensing agreement with Avid. I believe that since they are a commercial product, that they couldn't get away with reverse-engineering the codec like they have done with FFmpeg. This is not to say that RV is not an awesome product, which it is; just be careful with the codec support.
Hiero Player from the Foundry is a little cheaper than RV ($300-ish), and will play pretty much everything except Phantom Cine files. VLC is another open-source option as well.
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