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  • total catdv noob question

    Posted by Scott Tupper on June 22, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    just started playing with 9 and for whatever reason I cannot get any kind of video to playback, all I get is thumbnails.
    Sheesh, it must be right under my nose but I cannot for the life of me figure this out.
    Be gentle, feeling exposed today!

    Scott Tupper replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Matthew Stamos

    June 22, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    Are you opening up a catalog or simply dragging assets in?
    Can you relink or update media location?

  • Rolf Howarth

    June 23, 2011 at 9:56 am

    If you drag a movie into the main window it will create a clip record with a thumbnail and a movie you can play in the Movie tab in the clip details area at the top of the window. That’s presupposing the file is in a format that QuickTime knows how to play and you have the relevant codec. In some cases CatDV might be able to catalog a file and extract basic information from it but not be able to play it. What sort of video file is it?

  • Scott Tupper

    June 23, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Thanks Rolf, I am working with Matt on this.
    FYI, the files in question are no frills QT videos.
    Will post back when I get things straightened out.

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