Some creation tools I've had in my "arsenal" for years, 3rd party oddball video decoders (quicktime/flv won't suffice)
I don't know what "creation tools" means, but if you want a program that will handle and/or translate between different odd video formats, check out:
VideoLan Client (VLC) (free)
http://www.videolan.org/
MPEGStreamClip (free)
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
http://www.squared5.com/
Guess the closest troubleshoot resolution provided so far is Mac os versions.
A program that launches but then immediately quits isn't necessarily an "incompatible version", though it could be.
More commonly when a program launches and then immediately quits, the problem is due to a corrupted program preferences file. Try this:
In the Finder (which you can get to by clicking on the icon of a face with two shades of blue in your dock)
Hold down the Option key and select the Go menu.
Your user Library will appear in the menu; choose it.
Open the Preferences folder in the resulting window
There look for any files with the name of the application (the one that keeps quitting on you) in the name.
Move that file (or files) to the desktop.
Now see if the problematic program will launch.
Seriously makes a difference between os numbers?
It sometimes makes a difference, but not always. From the MacOS 10.7 to the current version, 10.12, very few programs have broken between versions, but some do. Check:
http://www.roaringapps.com
for application compatibility with your version of the MacOS.
Even if your application broke between versions of the MacOS, it's possible (actually it's likely) that the developer offers a patch or new version to make your app compatible with the later OS.
Not familiar at all with the version order history, but I'll wiki it.
Versions of Macintosh OS X (now called MacOS):
• First Public Beta: "Kodiak"
• Version 10.0: "Cheetah" (released in 2001)
• Version 10.1: "Puma"
• Version 10.2: "Jaguar"
• Version 10.3: "Panther"
• Version 10.4: "Tiger"
• Version 10.5: "Leopard"
• Version 10.6: "Snow Leopard"
• Version 10.7: "Lion"
• Version 10.8: "Mountain Lion"
• Version 10.9: "Mavericks"
• Version 10.10: "Yosemite"
• Version 10.11: "El Capitan"
• Version 10.12: "Sierra"
• Version 10.13: "High Sierra"
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204319
gives you the OS version that shipped with each Macintosh model. In just about every case, with only a few rare exceptions, you can't install a version of the MacOS on a Macintosh that's older than the version that it came with.
So software running on Maverick will not run on Sierra out of the box? Lots of programs won't be forwards compatible like that? Ouch. I thought Osx is osx. Unless upgrading from Maverick to Sierra is the equivalent major change to that from WinXp to Win7 then I guess I'll understand.
No, the vast majority of software that could run under Mavericks will run under Sierra. There will be a few programs that will require an update, but most will run fine. Once again, check for compatibility on RoaringApps, or on the Web site for the developer of your application. This isn't any different than the situation with Windows. It only gets bad when the platform undergoes a major hardware change or the OS undergoes a major architecture change. The Macintosh hasn't had that since the release of OS X 10.7 (Lion) when Apple dropped Rosetta from the OS, about 7 years ago.