SimpleMovieX: QuickTime Pro replacement

Real Mac User.

I must be missing something because I and O don't work for in and out points for this program. The more I use it the less I like it. But it is a free option to get export so it is not all bad. For simple edits Quicktime pro seems a lot simpler.

Utumno,

Thanks for the tips. I already had Perian installed, no help there. Chroma, on the other hand does seem to handle many of my files. VLC handles more of them (especially when they're cropped to non-standard sizes,) but Chroma's control interface is better for the ones it can read, especially with it's ability to scrub one frame at a time with the arrow keys. Thanks!

@skoalbandit: left arrow, right arrow, "i," and "o." The shortcuts are there. Just do what comes naturally.

As the first poster said the UI of this program is awful.

Only thing I would like in Quicktime Pro or this program is a way to set in and out points for cuts without having to use a mouse. Need something more percise.

Emilio : You may find that installing Perian (http://perian.org) and/or attempting playback with Chroma (http://chromaplayer.com) helps. HufYUV is implemented in ffmpeg the last I looked and both those products are based on ffmpeg.

Perian is free and open-source, Chroma is not.

Well, as a Windows 'switcher' with a large volume of .AVIs encoded in HufYUV, this definitely is NOT the answer I'm looking for. I have found an OS X version of HufYUV, so that I can at least watch the material on my Mac, using either VLC or XinePlayer, but that's it. Quicktime Pro won't touch it, and neither will the free download of this SimpleMovieX. It either crashes immediately, or displays a typical blank, white screen.

I gotta say, TUAW has a pretty wacky logo

Free, fast, multi-format: MPEG Streamclip

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

(Happy user, not the creator.)

QT Pro isn't meant to edit, but when your animator hands you a full-res animation file from After Effects as a backup, and a few weeks later you need to send h.264s to a conference in Paris, you're Avid/Final Cut machines are booked up, go ahead and export them out of QT Pro. Its what "heavier" compression programs are accessing anyway, isn't it?

Saved my agency lots of time and money with it - but I rarely edited with it. Not really its main purpose.

This list of ways Quicktime can be scripted showcases the not-so-obvious power of Pro. And why any competing product has a lot to live up to.

http://www.apple.com/applescript/quicktime/

The ability to skin Quicktime makes it almost worth the price for me!