{"id":4952,"date":"2019-09-13T06:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T14:14:00","slug":"ushering-in-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=4952","title":{"rendered":"Ushering in a new era"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who use Usher<\/a>, you’re probably well aware it’s a 32-bit application, and will stop working when macOS Catalina ships this fall. This was a key factor in our decision to retire Usher<\/a> back in 2017.<\/p>\n

But since its retirement, all has not been quiet with Usher\u2014at least not privately. We’ve stripped out the old 32-bit QuickTime engine and replaced it with the modern AVFoundation (a.k.a. QuickTime X). This wasn’t a trivial change, but we’ve reached a point where we’d like to invite Usher users to help test what we\u2019re calling Usher 2.<\/p>\n

Usher 2 is a 64-bit app, ready to run in both macOS Mojave and Catalina when it ships this fall. We\u2019d like all current Usher users\u2014as well as others interested in the media management and playback features of Usher\u2014to download the Usher 2 beta<\/a> and give it a spin.<\/p>\n

We’re very interested in feedback, of course. Not just does it run (we’re quite confident in that one), but what do you like, what don’t you like, what key feature that used to exist is now missing and you absolutely must have it, what other features would you like to see, etc.<\/p>\n

What’s new in Usher 2, other than the entire engine that runs in? There’s a full list in Usher’s release notes<\/a>, but here are a few highlights\u2026<\/p>\n