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Quicktime7 player won’t play FCP5 .mov export
FCP5 made a 22.5GB Quicktime movie from my 14 minute FCP5 project. I’m curious to see if the gluttonous export settings yielding this big file will net a prettier movie. But now my Quicktime7 player won’t play it. The first time I tried, it said it needed to download a file. But I wasn’t online then. The next time, when online, it didn’t repeat what file was needed. It just showed a white screen. I tried changing the file’s name, and tried reinstalling the Quicktime player but no luck, and never again said which file was needed. I tried playing the big file on my friend’s old Mac and it played, but with wickedly zany colors and very few pixels.
My question is: what kind of Quicktime player do I need to play the big (beautiful) Quicktime file exported by FCP5?
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In what manner do you need to play it (how are you using the file)
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I can add some detail to the previous post. My Quicktime movie utilized Big Endian sound, and uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 720×576 picture with millions (of colors). It is still regarded as DV-PAL format, I believe. Why shouldn’t Quicktime play it? Why does Quicktime say additional software is required, maybe from the Quicktime components page? Everything I’ve done is Intra-Apple.
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Either with the big file on a Firewire 800 hard drive or on the Mac Pro’s hard drive, I wanted go preview it with an HT-1100 projector (operating as monitor #1 for the Mac Pro). Since the work is only for projection, not for monitor presentation, this seemed a better demo. I find that using sRGB settings on both, and then decreasing projector’s brightness a bit while increasing projector’s contrast a bit makes fine projection. But I found this out only for a 2.4 GB H.264 Quicktime export — the one that I was able to play.
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10 bit requires FCS to be installed on the machine you are using
With that said… your FW drive is not fast enought to play it back….
You need to compress your file appropriately for your needs (either a DVD or very large H264)
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Yes, it would be hard for an external drive to send it fast enough. I did copy the .mov to the desktop. The machine on which I attempted to play it was the same machine that created it. FCP, if not FCS, was installed on the machine.
I’ve now watched a guy succeed to play it by dragging it into FCP. He calls FCP an maturer Quicktime.
I now fear that the source of my troubles is that I’m running FCP5 on a Mac Pro. I’m reading that FCP5 doesn’t run on the Intel processor. Well mine does run, but flakily. It is less finicky than FCP4 was on my G4, so I was half-satisfied, but now seeing the other guy’s FCP6 running solidly on a Mac Pro, I know there is a problem.
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