SimpleMovieX




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With the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina in October 2019, SimpleMovieX has been discontinued.
It is no longer sold, but Aero Quartet continues to provide basic support, for example resending registration codes to a paid customer that has lost it.

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macOS 10.15 Catalina is the first macOS version that doesn't run 32-bit applications, and since SimpleMovieX is built on 32-bit technology, namely the now defunct QuickTime API, it cannot be recompiled to 64-bit and extend its life into the 2020s.

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  • Founded in 2005 in Barcelona, Spain Aero Quartet is a small and friendly team of experts dedicated to Video Repair. Our unique approach — delivering a service rather than selling software — has been acclaimed by video professionals for over a decade.
  • I just tried SimpleMovieX and you can add your own chapter marks to an existing MP4 file without any previous chapter info. Posted by jaimev at 10:04 PM on February 15, 2008. Note: this can now be done for free using the latest versions of MetaX. Posted by jbrjake at 9:45 AM on March 3, 2008.

Simple Movie Cutter

Files generated by SimpleMovieX are accepted fine by iTunes but when loaded into MetaZ (a) none of the tags are detected (all fields are blank like on a never before tagged file) and (b) when MetaZ is told to write the file after setting tags it fails to do so (write takes 0 seconds and Queue window shows Atomic Parsley exit code 1). SimpleMovieX using a lot of CPU even when idle due to a view refresh cycle (Leopard). Fixed TAB, I, O keystrokes when document window is blank display garbage. Fixed Batch Export broken, after the first file it doesn't work. Fixed Batch Export table can be edited.

SimpleMovieX will continue to work as always if you run macOS 10.14 Mojave or earlier.

Many Macintosh users, in particular the professional users, will still stay with Mojave for severals years, because they need 32-bit compatibility to run utilities and special software that hasn't been upgraded to 64-bit. Those customers can continue to use SimpleMovieX for as long as they don't upgrade to macOS 10.15.

Be careful, many video codecs used in the early 2000s are only available with QuickTime 32-bit technology.
If you have video files using those codecs, you shouldn't upgrade all your systems to Catalina, but rather keep at least one Mac (or a bootable external disk) with 10.14 Mojave, to keep having access to those old video files.

This is very important for archive disks and long term storage. We recommend to convert those files to a more recent video format, and for this task, SimpleMovieX has a feature called Batch Export.

In that sense, the utility of SimpleMovieX in a post 32-bit world might give a surprising turn and grow again in the next years. A few years from now, SimpleMovieX might be one of the last options still able to play and edit old video formats.

For this reason, we will not throw away the SimpleMovieX codebase, and we will keep the simplemoviex.com website alive for the years to come.SimpleMovieX is no longer sold, but if you have a specific need that SimpleMovieX could have fulfilled, or any question regarding the software, please contact the Aero Quartet team at:


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You're bound to get a better answer than this one, but here's a start. Consider using the spotlight comments feature to put the same key word on the relevant Quick Time Files. Then build a smart folder for those key words and limit the search area to (probably) your Movies directory. One of the search or filter criteria of smart folders is Spotlight Comments. I get all kinds of stuff collected and organized that way.
When you open the smart folder, Apple key click on all of the files and open them all a once. So, now you have a smart folder (which automatically updates itself by the way) versus a play list (which is more static).
Hope this helps
Boris

Simple Movie Quiz

Aug 25, 2006 11:34 PM