• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Quicktime Files will not Open from Foreign Country

  Posted by Daniel Monskey on October 22, 2013 at 9:18 pm

  I have received QT files from an associate in Germany for a project (I suspect they were shot in PAL 25fps) and received them via Internet download (14.8 GB, MPEG-2 Video, MPEG Layer 2 format, 1440 x 1080 the file info says). I have tried opening them in QT and it says “The movie …. can’t be opened. You may need additional software to open this type of file.”
  I have tried importing it into a FCP 7.0.3 project and an error message comes up.
  I am using a Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz dual processor desktop computer with OS X (10.6.8)
  The file name is GC_Clip_2.mpg

  Any suggestions?
  Dan

  Daniel Monskey

  Rainer Wirth replied 12 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Daniel Monskey

  October 22, 2013 at 10:03 pm

  Thanks. This MPEG Streamclip program process isn’t working either. I dragged & dropped the file into the MPEG Streamclip box and got an error message “File open error: unsupported file type” (open anyway) (OK) options. I hit open anyway and I saw nothing that appeared to be processing, except when I first started a box came up saying timecode breaks have been detected. Do you want to fix? I said yes. THen a message opened saying no beginning timecode detected and the whole process seemed to stop—the rolling sunburst on the side disappeared. Then the program was sluggish beyond that time too. I have now done this process 2 times and got the same result.
  Any other ideas from here?
  Dan

  Daniel Monskey
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  Shane Ross

  October 22, 2013 at 10:50 pm

  Yes…have them encode to a different format. This one isn’t working.

  You can also try to install PERIAN (perian.org) and see if that helps. If not…the option 1 is my advice.

  Shane
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  Daniel Monskey

  October 23, 2013 at 2:35 am

  Thanks everyone for your help. It will help me from banging my head unnecessarily against the wall in frustration, when it has to be taken care of at the other end.
  Dan

  Daniel Monskey
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  Daniel Monskey

  October 23, 2013 at 8:17 am

  I tried a PC for downloading the file and then opening it with a PC program. Windows Media Player plays the video fine.
  What can I do, now that I have the video in a working form state-side, to convert it or import it into FCP to begin the editing process with the file? It is 28 minutes long and 13.7 GB.
  Dan

  Daniel Monskey
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  Rainer Wirth

  October 23, 2013 at 2:18 pm

  the best transcoding program is Episode,
  worth every cent,

  cheers

  Rainer

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