You don’t need an NLE to view the meta data about a media file. There are plenty of free tools that you can use from the command line that will tell you about what is in a video. I know what you are saying. “Uh… and I care because???” 8 or 9 times out of ten, ya don’t. BUT on the off chance that you actually work with video content during post-production or delivery, it may be a thing.

Here is a quick rundown of tools that I use as it relates to video. NOTES * Anything that can be installed by Homebrew is indicated by ‡ * Anything that I havent used yet, but want to in the future is indicated by * Tool Skill Level Technical? GUI? Cost More Info Davinci Resolve Beginner - Expert No Yes Free - $399 NLE (Video Editor) Media Info ‡ Beginner - Expert Yes Yes (1) Free extract media meta data FFMpeg ‡ Beginner - Expert Yes No Free Video Encoder/Decoder Documentation ImageMagick ‡ Beginner - Expert Yes No Free image tool Command Line tools QCTools * Intermediate - Expert Yes Yes Free Use this to check the quality of a video Fusion 8 * Intermediate - Expert No Yes Free - $995 Visual/Graphic effects tool Footnotes MediaInfo has a GUI for windows.