Quicktime

[Steve Eisen]

What did you export the movie from?

G5 Dual 2.5 160GB System 400GB Media Drive ATI 9800 256MB 6 GB RAM
Dual Gig Quicksilver 1GB RAM 80 GB System drive (3) 250 GB internal media storage
15″ Al Powerbook 1.25 1GB RAM
OS 10.3.8 FCP 4.5, DVDSP 2, QT 6.5, Boris Red 3GL 1.65 TB External Stor

[Dennis Cummins]

i made a photo montage in iphoto and saved as a QT movie

[Nick Meyers]

could you see image in the file BEFORE you rendered?

can you see image in the file in the viewer, or if you open it in QuickTime? maybe it;s just black in the canvas?

if so then check your canvas view menu (top of canvas, looks like tiny viewfinder)

you may have accidentaly toggled to “wireframe” mode, so change it back to “image”, or “image and wireframe”

the w key toggles the wireframe modes.

nick

[Charles Simonson]

What version of iPhoto are you using? I think Apple used to offer more options for photo-movie exporting, but it appears there is only one option with iPhoto5. That is MPEG-4 exporting, which should be fine for FCP. In earlier versions, the default was a Photo-JPEG non-video Image Sequence. Since this is not technically video, QT could not export it correctly to other video codecs. What you would need to do is go to the advanced export options and export a movie that is video. Since I don’t have a previous version of iPhoto installed anymore, I can’t explain it step-by-step.

For instance, using the share movie option with iPhoto5, when opened in QT, the movie indicates that it is a MPEG-4 movie. With earlier versions and the default export settings, QT indicates it is Photo-JPEG with whatever effects (ie Cross Fade) are applied.

[Charles Simonson]

Found out what the issue was. From iPhoto, select to export from the “Library Slideshow” source option, not the “Library” source option. Library Slideshow creates an MPEG-4 movie, Library creates a Photo-JPEG Image Sequence.

[Dennis Cummins]

thanks for all the help but how do i export from “library slideshow” doesnt seem to be an option. im using iphoto 4 an fcp 3.