Support of *.m4a after Quick Time ?

TTT wrote on 4/20/2016, 4:06 PM

Hello,

Sometimes I have to work with .m4a files. It turns out that Vegas required Quick Time to read them. Now that Quick Time is discontinued and that it is recommended to remove it, are there alterntives ? What would you use to convert .m4a to .wav ? (no online conveters please ;-) .

Thank you

Comments

colinu wrote on 4/21/2016, 6:33 AM

Could Apple release stand-alone codecs that would negate the requirement for QuickTIme?

Would this require rewriting some code for existing programs to accommodate this change?

Adobe and others are in the same boat. If they find a solution, will it only be made available to their subscription customers?

rraud wrote on 4/21/2016, 10:23 AM

I use Quick Time Alternative, SF and VP just uses the codec I think.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm

JMacSTL wrote on 4/29/2016, 12:13 PM

I find it more stable to convert any mp3 or m4a audio files into WAV files first. This way, Vegas, and the underlying system, doesn't have to work so hard decompressing things.