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Why my HD video wont work on a MacBook?
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I recorded High Def video shorts (saved as .mov's)
they play on my old powerbook, but on the ibooks and the new MacBooks quicktime takes me to the Apple Download 3rd party driver site and there is really nothing there to download for HD.
What is going on?
Is it the Graphics card?
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
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Any chance you don't have Quicktime Pro registered on the new machine and you did on the old one? That may be a QTPro feature. Just guessing.
Steve
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Yes,
but this shouldn't be a Pro feature. It's an HD issue and most users would don't even realize there is a Pro version of Qt...Interesting notion though.
Also the web page that Qt loads is not the 'get Qt Pro' page
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What program did you record them with? Sounds like they use a codec that doesn't come with Quicktime normally. Just because they are .mov files doesn't necessarily mean that Quicktime will be able to play them without any additional software/plugins.
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streamed into Powerbook/FCP 1080/60i - these are the .mov files that Final Cut captured directly.
Hmmm.
I'll try exporting them as something else, but it is the first I have run into this problem.
I also capture 24p files (24F on the Canon H1) as .M2t files which play in VLC Media player on all machines but the ibook and MacBook.
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If it's H.264, then you do need QT Pro. Why not just enter your Pro license from your old machine to see if this fixes the problem? This doesn't seem Powerbook specific, though.
Steve
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I didn't think file suffixes had anything to do with it. I thought .mov encompassed all Quicktime movies, regardless of the codec used. I'm not sure I understand why you don't just transfer the QTPro license just to rule out the possibility of that being the problem.
Steve
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Hey Steve,
Yup, good advise, but I can't do this as the iBooks aren't mine (some of my students) and the Mac books I have tried are in stores. But I may inquire at Tekserve when I get a moment.
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