.mov format

[Mike Barber]

Greetings Jennifer,

Most QuickTime .mov files are playable in FCP; the issue isn’t that it is a QuickTime file but rather the codec being used. QuickTime is a container format as well as a framework (a framework which FCP is built upon). (Check out the entry QT entry at wikipedia for more info)

You can convert the file to something more “editing-fiendly” using Compressor.

If you open the file in QuickTime player and open the Inspector (command+I), tell us what it says under “Format”.

Mike Barber

[Richard Harrington]

Compressor has Format Conversion options

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Jennifer Tait]

Hi Mike –

Thanks very much for your help. The file is:

MPEGI muxed
320 X 240 pixels

Does that help?

Jen