macOS / iOS Codecs

AVPro Movie Capture running on macOS and iOS support the following codecs:

Codec	Containers	iOS Support	Transparency	Notes
Video Codecs
H.264	mp4/m4v/mov	✓	.
HEVC (H.265)	mp4/m4v/mov	✓	✓	Please ensure your mac has support for hardware HEVC encoding. Results using the software encoder will be... varied. HEVC with alpha is also supported for capturing transparency, and requires the QuickTime file container (.mov) to work
JPEG	m4v/mov	✓	.
ProRes 422	mov	.	.
ProRes 4444	mov	.	✓
Uncompressed	mov	.	.	If you like HUGE media files then this is the codec for you. It’s unlikely to be useful. Use the png image sequence capture mode if you want uncompressed video frames. Uncompressed frames are raw RGB
Audio Codecs
AAC	mp4/m4v/mov	✓	.
FLAC	mov	✓	.	The free lossless audio codec
Apple Lossless	m4v/mov	✓	.
Linear PCM	mov	✓	.	16-bit linear PCM interleaved samples at the source sample rate (usually 48000Hz)
Uncompressed	mov	✓	.	The raw audio from the audio source, likely to be linear pcm encoded. For instance with Unity this will be 32bit floating point linear pcm at the current audio sample rate (usually 48000Hz)
Image Codecs
PNG	png	✓	✓
JPEG	jpeg	✓	.
TIFF	tiff	✓	✓
HEIF	heif	✓	✓	Requires macOS 10.13.4 or later

Containers

MP4 Container

The MPEG-4 container format. This is the default for the H264 and HEVC video codecs and the AAC audio codec.

M4V Container

Apple’s proprietary video container based on mp4. Supports the H264, HEVC, Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 4444 video codecs, and AAC and Apple Lossless audio codecs.

QuickTime Container

The Apple Quicktime movie format. Recognised file extensions are: mov and qt. This is the default container for the MJPEG, AppleProRes 422, AppleProRes 4444, uncompressed video codecs and for the FLAC, LinearPCM, uncompressed audio codecs.