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QT file strangness
So I unpacked an old but little used HD and plugged it in, it mounted and the files are there. The icon looks strange, kind of gray green, not the QT icon. This material was digitized in FCP2 or so with an Aurora card using System 9.2.
I double click and the computer asks me to choose an app to open with, of course QT is grayed out. I can open with vlc but there are issues.
I drag a file into FCP 4.5 and I get the error message.
The files are all labeled in the kind column as Unix Executable.
Sound like some kind of drive/system thing.
I dragged one file to a System 10.3 drive and still I can not open from the desktop.
How do I reconstitute these files as plan-ol-QT files?
Maybe its true, you can never go back…
Thanks for your help
Chris
PS, Is there a system 10 version of Disktop by any other name?
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4 Replies
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Duplicate the files to another folder and use those (so the orginals will remain intact)
Put a .mov extension on the files (or one of the files) and see what happens. IF they were digitzed with Aurora, I would imagine that you would need the codec.
Jeremy
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Another thing to try is to control-click the files and select quicktime in the ‘open with’ dialog menu, but make sure you gave the files a .mov suffix.
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre
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Thanks, I will try this.
Chris
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All I did was change the suffix to .mov and, pop, the icon changed to a QT icon and I opened it from the desktop!
Thanks for the help.
Chris
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