{"id":231,"date":"2011-01-28T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:27:15","slug":"a-rotten-apple-leads-to-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rinta-aho.org\/blog\/a-rotten-apple-leads-to-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A rotten apple leads to another one.."},"content":{"rendered":"

I am getting tired of these “well tested” and “polished” Apple “pro” applications so this is a short story.<\/p>\n

Aperture 3 cannot play MPEG-1 videos (at least the ones shot with a less than two years old Sony camera), even though they play with Quicktime, Finder, etc. This is a bug on its own and has been reported to Apple.<\/p>\n

However, I decided to convert those to MPEG-4 \/ H.264 \/ AVC \/ whatever-nobody-can-figure-out-thing-that-plays-most-places-today. Studying the various video files I have collected over the years, I made another “interesting” discovery..<\/p>\n

Since I started to use iPhoto, I download photos and videos from my cameras to iPhoto, fix the photos, then export a backup to filesystem. Now I noticed that what iPhoto does is that the videos are exported as JPEGs but renamed to .AVI or whatever was the original video file type!! All 200+ videos on my filesystem backup were < 1 MB JPEGs! WHAT AN AMAZING APPLE(tm) FEATURE (*)!\n\n(*) (I filed a bug report on this also, and today Apple engineers responded to me that \"it works as intended\": I have to export the video as \"original\". I disagree. If I export an event with hundreds of photos and videos, the videos should be exported properly as the photos. I don't want to manually clickety-click each video and select the different export mode.)\n\nThis once again confirms that \"the assumption is the mother of all f*ckups\". I can't assume anything with Apple software any more. From now on, all master files go to plain file system first and get SHA256 checksums before being seen by iPhoto or Aperture.\n<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am getting tired of these “well tested” and “polished” Apple “pro” applications so this is a short story. Aperture 3 cannot play MPEG-1 videos (at least the ones shot with a less than two years old Sony camera), even though they play with Quicktime, Finder, etc. This is a bug on its own and … <\/p>\n

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