First of all, if you open the movie and then go window>show movie info you will be able to see what video format is used. There may be a specific codec availlable.
There has been quite a lot on this subject already. A search may well show up alternatives to what I will advise. My experiances are with trying to play and export Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 files with an ASF extension.
I found that Flip4mac enabled Quicktime to play Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 files with an ASF extension. This is done within Quicktime.
The player version is free but you need to pay for versions to export to WMV files. I do not know whether the free player version would enable you to export to a format that your QT pro would be able to export to anyway.
The story could have ended here if it were not for the fact that QT 7.1.3 broke Flip4Mac functionality for these files:
http://www.flip4mac.com/fusetalk/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1589&S TARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
This is not yet fixed.....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Alternatives:
VLC will play almost anything but I don't think that it will export
Perian is meant to be good but it didn't work with Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 for me. This may be because I already had Flip4Mac installed and it was in conflict. I really havn't investigated this one much.
The only workaround that I now have is to use VisualHub to export to whatever I want. A simpler (and free) program from the same people is isquint that exports to ipod format only.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
One particularly useful feature of visual hub is that it can export directly to dv which you can then use in imovie to edit your movies
There has been quite a lot on this subject already. A search may well show up alternatives to what I will advise. My experiances are with trying to play and export Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 files with an ASF extension.
I found that Flip4mac enabled Quicktime to play Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 files with an ASF extension. This is done within Quicktime.
The player version is free but you need to pay for versions to export to WMV files. I do not know whether the free player version would enable you to export to a format that your QT pro would be able to export to anyway.
The story could have ended here if it were not for the fact that QT 7.1.3 broke Flip4Mac functionality for these files:
http://www.flip4mac.com/fusetalk/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1589&S TARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
This is not yet fixed.....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Alternatives:
VLC will play almost anything but I don't think that it will export
Perian is meant to be good but it didn't work with Microsoft ISO MPEG-4 V1 for me. This may be because I already had Flip4Mac installed and it was in conflict. I really havn't investigated this one much.
The only workaround that I now have is to use VisualHub to export to whatever I want. A simpler (and free) program from the same people is isquint that exports to ipod format only.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
One particularly useful feature of visual hub is that it can export directly to dv which you can then use in imovie to edit your movies
Nov 28, 2006 2:46 AM
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Codecs For Mac Os X
Sep 15, 2015 In fact, codec issues are one of the main reasons we built EditReady. This post will cover the basics of where codecs live on the Mac, and how you can go about resolving basic codec issues. Traditionally, all the codecs on a Mac were stored in one folder, /Library/QuickTime. If you’ve got an older Mac OS X install and look in that folder, you.