From: Phil Houston <pkh111@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: March 26, 2019 6:22:12 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Quitcktime is Dead in OSX 10.15
Alan,
Spectacular image! Beautiful color palette. Thanks for posting the link. Hope to see many more this year.
I'm still using a 2011 MacBook Pro and keeping my fingers crossed. It's my only machine with a license for the the latest version of Astro IIDC that will run all my firewire cameras. I would love to get a newer machine as a backup but need a key, which reminds me...
TOP DOLLAR PAID FOR A GOLDEN KEY
Phil
On Mar 26, 2019, at 5:55 PM, Alan Friedman alan@greatarrow.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I lost a problem-prone 2011 MacBook Pro last year (went through three logic boards, the first two replaced for free, the last time, parts no longer available) - I replaced it with a Mac mini which is quite nice and drives my old matte screen Cinema Display just fine. I used it for the first time with AstroIIDC earlier today, processing video files captured this morning with a Point Grey camera, AstroIIDC on my 2014 laptop. The mini was really fast. I did get the warning to remind Milton to update the software 8^) which wouldn’t run on future versions of OSX. Occurred to me to check the software update prefs in the control center to be sure they were not set to automatically download and update the operating system. Might be a good idea to check your computers. I think I will buy another laptop just to have one more jump into the future with AstroIIDC.
From this morning:
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/firstlight2019.html
Cheers,
Alan
Alan Friedman
On Mar 26, 2019, at 5:42 PM, Phil Houston pkh111@tampabay.rr.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi Milton,
Thanks for the info. Depressing news but not really surprising. Apple has not been thrilling me for many years now and it seems blatantly clear that they know what's best for the masses. I suspect that animojis don't require QuickTime.
Astro IIDC is one of the best performing, feature rich, bug free pieces of software I have ever used period. I sometimes smile when I hear other imagers complain about software troubles knowing that with Astro IIDC and Mac I an immune from the minutiae.
It fatigues me think that I must learn to adapt to a less capable system even if it's from Apple. Thank God their old hardware lasts a long time.
Best wishes to all,
Phil
On Mar 26, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Stephen Ramsden sramsden@natca.net [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
This really sucks.
I can’t tell you how many pf these free setups I have put out there through the charity with PGR cameras and Macs all over the world. I still have 20 or so PGR cameras of my own for microscopy and astronomy and looks like no way to use them coming up as FLIR does not have any mac camera software, much less stacking software.
ASTRO IIDC was the software behind the largest solar astronomy outreach project in the world for over a decade. It will be insurmountable to fix once this happens and people are inevitably forced to upgrade...
Stephen W. Ramsden
Nonprofit 501c3 Director
Atlanta, GA - United States of America
404-543-7616
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On Mar 26, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Alan Friedman alan@greatarrow.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi Milton,
Thanks for sharing the heads up. Seems like it might make sense to make a hardware plan for a couple of years ahead. It’s been a great run. I can confirm that it will be hard for this old dog to learn new tricks.
Best regards,
Alan
Alan Friedman
On Mar 25, 2019, at 11:19 PM, maupperl@gmail.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi folks.
Just a heads up that QuickTime will be dead in OS X 10.15.
That means you will not be able to process any .mov files that Astro IIDC has created under 10.15 in Astro IIDC. That includes 16 bit monochrome or any color formats.
Your only option with new hardware which only runs OSX 10.15 would be to run VMWare to create an Virtual Machine and run an earlier version of OS X to run Astro IIDC in it.
If you do open an older movie (like 8 bit monochrome), Apple will convert them into a lossy highly compressed MP4 video. Anything with color will be using our Bayer codec which will be removed by Apple and therefore not playable or convertible.