HUGE PROBLEM with quicktime files

[Shane Ross]

.mov and 1920×1080 really tells us nothing. .Mov is not a CODEC, it is a CONTAINER. Click on the file and hit CMD-I…get info. What does it say for CODEC?

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[Mark Maness]

Uh Oh….. That doesn’t sound good.

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[Taylor Housworth]

All of the files are DVCPROHD 1080i60, but these 2 that aren’t working don’t list any codecs, like they don’t have them.

[David Roth weiss]

What Shane said, and how did you get these files into your system? Did you capture them from tape, or were they recorded to disk or memory card, etc.?

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[Taylor Housworth]

they were recorded directly to disk

[Greg Burke]

Hey Taylor,

I’ve notice sometimes the when I bring .movs or other file types in FCP it will say unrecognizable but they still play fine. WHen I have file problems I tend to convent the .mov to NTSC-DVCPRO codec the files are huge but it usually solves the problems. Good Luck. Hopefully your files are corrupted.

[John Pale]

Are you playing them on a computer that has Final Cut Pro Studio installed?

Most of the HD codecs are only installed with a FCP install (HDV, DVCPRO-HD, Uncompressed, etc).
The Apple Pro Res is only installed by FCP 6 or higher.

If you want to play these files in Quicktime Player on a non-FCP computer, you should convert the file (on an FCP system) to H.264.

[Taylor Housworth]

Unfortunately it won’t play anywhere, and nothing is telling me it is corrupted. I also don’t even get the option to export it from Quicktime.

[Shane Ross]

[Taylor Housworth] “they were recorded directly to disk”

Another caveat for recording directly to hard drive.

Hmmm…so the DVCPRO HD ones don’t open in QT? On a machine with FCP installed? Interesting…what about the machine they are recorded onto?

Shane

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[Taylor Housworth]

No, the DVCPROHD ones do open in Quicktime, but these 2 files I’m having trouble with do not list what codec they are (though they of course would have to be DVCPROHD just like the other 300 files I have). These files DO open in Quicktime, but I get the window you usually get when you open an mp3 or something of that nature, but nothing plays (I hear no audio and there’s not even a window to see video, and the playhead doesn’t move). I was going to try to export them as something else, but it doesn’t give me the option.

I was not present for the recording of this show, but I believe it was recorded on an iMac, a Mac Pro, and a MacBook Pro 17 inch. 1 Camera per computer.

These are being edited in FCP on a MacBook pro 15 inch. Each camera has it’s own drive, so I’ve got 3 drives streaming in. I don’t believe it has anything to do with the hard drives because I’ve already put together 2 shows this way without a problem.

If it helps, the files also don’t have thumbnails in finder (they have the quicktime icon, but not an image from within the .mov like the rest of them)