[posthumanus]

Hi:

i recently re-installed OS 9.1 (international english)
onto my iMac and upgraded to Quicktime 5.0.2 which i think is the North American version.

anyway, everything seems to work fine except i opened iMovie yesterday and it said i don’t have Quicktime firewire DV: i’ve done the QT download/update thing and scored a whole bunch of stuff except firewire DV.

does anyone know where/how i can get this one piece of the puzzle. why is QT so damn recalcitrant when it comes to downloading and installing?

thanks in advance.

posthumanus.

[T Allen]

Stop beating up on QT! (LOL)

Everthing is just fine with your install.

If you go to Extensions Manager you'll notice that FireWire Enabler and FireWire Support are turned off. If you turn them on you won't get this message when you launch iMovie. The program uses these extensions when you pull DV from your camera.

BTW, iMovie will work fine w/o these extensions turned on.

[T Allen]

Stop beating up on QT! (LOL)

Everthing is just fine with your install.

If you go to Extensions Manager you'll notice that FireWire Enabler and FireWire Support are turned off. If you turn them on you won't get this message when you launch iMovie. The program uses these extensions when you pull DV from your camera.

BTW, iMovie will work fine w/o these extensions turned on.

[posthumanus]

okay but:

firewire enabler & support extensions (version Z 2.8.1) are turned on and i keep getting the 'improper QT installation; QT firewire DV not installed' message when opening iMovie.

anyone else have any ideas?

[lucylawless]

still sounds like it might be an extensions issue. try the MacOS Base and MacOS All sets, and if that doesn't work, you might want to post a list of your extensions, and which are on and off, to give us a place to start

also, can you try this in OS X? (in case this is some kind of hardware issue)

[Cipher13]

Download and do a full, fresh install of QT - don't use the auto-updater, or the net install, do it with the actual, full installer.
http://asu.info.apple.com

[posthumanus]

at that download page the only QT5 available is the english (US) version which is the one i got originally.

does it matter that i'm doing this on an international english OS? could that perhaps be contributing to this problem.

posthumanus.

[posthumanus]

okay:

i’ve gotten rid of the the ‘improper QT installation’ message by updating QT.

i’ve figured out that after the initial quicktime download, it waits until you try to do something such as look at a photo (QT picture viewer was not originally included) then remembers which bit of it you don’t have and lines it up for downloading at a later date.

in my case QT was telling me i didn’t have firewire enabler and support but they were both sitting there in my extensions folder. so now it’s gone and downloaded 2 different versions and i now have four of them onboard: the original OS 9.1 v2.8.1, and the downloaded QT v2.3 which seems like a regression.

anyway, i don’t get the warning message when opening iMovie anymore. unfortunately i don’t have a camcorder to test it with so if anyone doesn’t come up with a reason not to, i’m going to trash the originals.

if you do have a reason not to, please let me know.

posthumanus.

[ 02-12-2002: Message edited by: posthumanus ]