Rewrapping with QuickTime in Mountain Lion

So with ML, we can read AVHD structure with QuickTime.
I tried to read an orphan .MTS file with QT, then tried to export it (format: sequence).

It results that QT can now rewrap mts files, even is AVCHD structure is lost !

No transcoding, just writing the new .mov file, H.264 and AC3 audio.

Maybe already noticed by someone, but pretty handy.

[Jeremy Garchow] "What I hope this points to, is an AVFoundation universe free of QuickTime."

Are you ready for a Quicktime free Windows? I don't see Apple ever doing AVFoundation for Windows.

As long as Macs and Windows can run 32bit apps Quicktime will be around. When the time comes the OS can no longer run 32bit natively, there will be a 32bit "rosetta"

[Jeremy Garchow] "I'm talking about the engine not so much the QT player. "

So am I. Windows without the Quicktime APIs is something I'm not ready for.

[Jeremy Garchow] "What I hope this points to, is an AVFoundation universe free of QuickTime."

So QuickTime would be the "dark matter" of the Universe ;)

I tried to open a .mts file from an AVCHD camera folder and QuickTime wouldn't open it.

But when I insert and SD card it sees the "private" folder and lets you open it with QuickTime to view the videos. But this doesn't seem to work with archived folders.

[Morten Hansen] "ClipWrap does the job without transcoding."

As does FCPX. If you don't transcode the media and use original quality, FCPX simply rewraps AVCHD to h264 like Clipwrap.

Jeremy