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QTCoffee

QTCoffee - 1.2.5

QuickTime command-line utilities

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.2.5
Release Date: 2008-01-23
License: Commercial
Downloads (this version): 1,522
Downloads (all versions): 10,375
Price: $10 donation requested for personal & academic use

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Product Description:

These utilities allow you to manipulate QuickTime movies (and other QuickTime readable media such as MPEGs, AVIs, music and images, and others with appropriate plug-ins such as Ogg and WMV files) via the command line.

The QTCoffee tools allow you to modify movies by extracting tracks and chapters, creating chapters, scaling & rotating tracks (or the entire movie). You can also multiplex movies (e.g. take a video track from one movie and a sound track from another), join movies together, and split a movie into equal duration parts, at specified times, or by chapters. Files with only MPEG-4 video and/or AAC audio can also be saved as MP4 movies without conversion.

Why would you want such a thing? Well, if you only happen to need these particular features, and don't want to pay $30 for Quicktime Pro, then this is for you! More importantly, these utilities can be used inside shell scripts and are therefore very useful for batch processing. We think of them more as complements to Quicktime Pro rather than replacements for it.

QTCoffee is donation-ware for personal and academic use: if the tools are useful to you you are encouraged to purchase a license or pay whatever amount of money you feel is appropriate. If you use it for commercial purposes (even if you don't make any money specifically off the project) you will need to purchase a license at $10 per seat.

If you encounter bugs, please tell us! Reporting them in the ratings section below does not help.

What's new in this version:

  • Allow URL movies too
  • Fixed an issue with mp4 export not working with some H.264 tracks
  • chapcutmovie has the option not to use chapter names in the output filenames
  • Handle unnamed chapters at the beginning of the movie

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
  • QuickTime 7.0 or later

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QTCoffee Developer NotePlease submit bug reports to us - Version: 1.2.1, 4/3/2006 08:03PM PST

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3AM Coffee Software
You are of course free to post negative reviews, but we ask that you PLEASE, also submit bug reports (or complaints of any sort) to us here at 3AM Coffee Software directly.

We assume that you are posting reviews to help other prospective users of the product. It is even more helpful for you to get a bug fixed rather than just complain about it. There is often no way to reproduce or fix a bug with the short reviews posted here, but if we have your contact information we can request additional information. That helps us, but it also helps you and helps your fellow users.

The Read Me (and our web site) contains information on how to contact us and how to provide enough information that we can take a crack at fixing a bug or improving our product.
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QTCoffee ReviewUsed in a HDTV professional project - Version: 1.2, 3/18/2006 06:32AM PST

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Ilgaz
This one and its perfect companion, qt_tools saved us going "off air" because of a glitch in a 2k resolution , near terabyte level Quicktime file.

We had no time to mess with GUI tools, we needed a very quick, very direct conversion for digital betacam in emergency issue.

I can't thank both authors enough. We "purchased" (donated) to show appreciation.

I am sure there are many movie/tv pros use it. I also think it has a use in pro audio tables too.

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QTCoffee ReviewWorks exactly as advertised - Version: 1.2, 12/13/2005 06:05PM PST

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maguirer2k
Needed a way to trim a few seconds off the beginning of an audio track via a shell script, and this did the trick beautifully. The detailed man pages were very helpful.
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