Release: VideoTools, v2.1

The VideoTools plugin provides support for video input:

• Firewire video input, bypassing QuickTime.
• Network camera input, bypassing QuickTime.
• Video file input, bypassing QuickTime.
• Video file input, running QuickTime in a separate process.

Unlike Quartz Composer's built-in Movie Importer patch, VideoTools doesn't block compositions while a video loads. With the non-QuickTime video file input patch, videos load faster. And, unlike Movie Importer, VideoTools works reliably with threaded third-party applications (such as QuartzBuilder).

Supported Cameras, Containers, and Codecs

Supported Firewire Cameras

Any IIDC/DCAM-compliant Firewire camera, including:

• DMx 21BF04 by The Imaging Source
• Flea2 Color (FL2G-13S2C) by Point Grey Research
• Flea2 Mono (FL2G-13S2M) by Point Grey Research
• iSight by Apple (External Firewire)

(See also dc1394's camera list.)

Incompatible Cameras

• Firefly FFMV-03M2M by Point Grey Research

Supported Network Cameras

• Asoni CAM435
• Asoni CAM613M
• Asoni CAM619M-IR
• Asoni SVR610
• Axis 211M
• Axis 212 PTZ
• Axis 221
• Axis 240Q
• Axis M1114
• Axis P1347
• Axis Q1755
• Axis Q7404
• IQInvision IQeye300
• Panasonic BB-HCM735A
• Vivotek IP7133
• Wanscam AJ-C0WA-C116
• Y-cam Bullet
• Y-cam White
• Currently Unsupported:
  • Appro LC-7314
  • Panasonic WV-NP1004
  • Panasonic WV-NP244

Supported Video Player Movie Containers

• .mov
• .avi

Supported Video Player Movie Codecs

• MJPEG
• PNG
• RLE ("QuickTime Animation")
• ProRes 422
• ProRes 422 (Proxy)
• ProRes 422 (HQ)
• Partially Supported:
  • H.264 — stutters when played backward
  • ProRes 4444 — alpha channel is ignored
• Currently Unsupported:
  • Other formats that use interframe encoding (MPEG-4, ...)

Supported QuickTime Player Movie Containers and Codecs

• Anything supported by QuickTime 7

Known Issues

• Kineme VideoTools does not play audio.

3rd-party software

This software uses code from libdc1394 and FFmpeg, both licensed under the LGPLv2.1. FFmpeg's source can be downloaded here.

Credits

• The Video Input, QuickTime Player, Video Player, and Blackmagic Capture patches were commissioned by Stuart White of Control Freak Systems.
• The Network Camera Input patch (formerly Axis Camera patch) was championed by Marco Tempest, and some test equipment was furnished by Erie Plating Company.
• H.264 support in the Video Player patch was commissioned by Just Add Music.
• QuickTime is a registered trademark of Apple.

Unsupported on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Kineme products are not supported on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8).