MacOS – How to prevent QuickTime from showing cursor when playing subtitles

You can use ClipWrap ($50) to rewrap your AVCHD videos to a Quicktime/Final Cut compatible format.

Then, deinterlace your videos using JES Deinterlacer and export them preserving full quality (huge files though).

So the workflow is the following:

• Add videos to ClipWrap, select as output the "Rewrap (don't alter video samples)" option and save them to a new location.
• Open JES Deinterlacer and drop all videos to input's "hot-box"

• Select Project properties:

  • For 1080p30 go to Project > Deinterlace > Top Field, Adaptive, Local
  • For 720p60 go to Project > Standards conversion > 1280x720 60p

• Finally, go to Output > Export > QuickTime Movie

  • Settings > Compression Type > Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
  • and export the video!

So, your videos will be ready to import them to Final Cut.

I hope that helped!

Edit:

If you want to transcode the video files, just for viewing them in Quicktime, then you would have to select H.264 when exporting from JES Deinterlacer, than the Apple ProRes which is suitable for editing.

Just a shot in the dark, but have a look at VLMC. It is a non-linear video editing suite based on the VLC library, maintained by the VLC community. Otherwise, another editing software program that I know works with subtitles is AviDemux.

Just as a note. I am pretty sure that if you cut scenes out of the movie, you need to edit the subtitle files as well (otherwise the timing goes off). Not quite sure if any of these programs take that into consideration and modifies the subtitle files for you.

Best of luck. Hope one of these programs helps.