From: Milton Aupperle <maupperl@gmail.com>
Date: August 12, 2014 1:18:39 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] camera connection question
Hi Alan;
As near as I can tell (under 10.8.5), you have zero control of FaceTime just firing up when you plug in a camera. There are no preferences for this as we had in iChat and the .plist pref file for it has no hidden attributes for this. It's basically ported from iPhone / iPad and they have no 3rd party imaging devices (without jail breaking it), so Apple doesn't feel you need it on the Mac. The only thing I would suggest is to compress it (form the Finder "Control" click on "FaceTime" and select "Compress FaceTime" from the pop up menu) and then delete it.
Apple has officially deprecated QuickTime and it will likely go dead in the next OS Iteration. Your not allowed to even link to the QuickTime or QTKit API for App Store apps - you immediately get rejected by Apple if you do. I have worked pretty extensively with it's successor AVFoundation and it's just another iOS derived API ported to the Mac. It supports MP4, Motion JPEG and two Apple FCP Pro Res video formats - that's it. You can not extend it as they have never allowed a plugin or any other method like Codecs to be supported. Basically it's useless for anything scientific (no 8 bit or 16 bit mono formats, no uncompressed formats - no custom bayer - no other custom video formats other than Apples own) - no custom data tracks or time code tracks. Your also exceedingly limited in how you create video files too - the muxers don't allow you to add tracks in after you create items, like adding a TimeCode track after the video or audio is allowed is forbidden (the API just hangs) if you try it.
The only way to work around it is to develop your own file formats, codecs and your own playback applications from scratch - and your own capture app to create them too. If I was to do that, it wouldn't be on the Mac or iOS - possibly Android if I could generate a viable business case.
HTH..
Milton Aupperle
On 2014-08-11, at 10:52 AM, Alan Friedman alan@greatarrow.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi Stephen,
I would have to connect a non-firewire camera to get this option. Image Capture shows "no camera found" when a firewire camera is connected and the preference option is not available.
On the video format glitch, we've lost the ability to preview .mov files in the finder. You have to have QT 7 pro installed and select this as the default program for opening .mov files. QT7 will open them and not ask to convert them as QT10 does. Now I have to remember how to keep QT7 from opening every movie after it is recorded.
I used to remember a lot more stuff a lot more better.
cheers,
Alan
Alan Friedman
On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Ramsden sramsden@natca.net [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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Hey Alan,
Plug in the camera then open "Image Capture" and specify what the computer does when the device is attached... as shown below:
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Now, can you tell ME how I get mavericks to show me the videos from ASTRO IIDC without "converting" them when I double click them. I use to see a thumbnail and an icon for my videos, now I dont. I forgot how to do that.,
Stephen W. Ramsden
Nonprofit 501c3 Director
Atlanta, GA - United States of America
404-543-7616
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On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Alan Friedman alan@greatarrow.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Here is an old question that I can't remember the answer to... just installed AstroIIDC golden key on a new MacBook Pro. All went well and using the thunderbolt to firewire adapter works very well for capturing.
What is the method (in Mavericks) for keeping Facetime from opening when a firewire camera is connected?
thank you!
Alan
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