Is it possible to find movie files in your quicktime cache

when I had a pc years ago, I was able to find vieo files in my cache, is that possible, say for instance I view a quicktime file online, will that file be in my quicktime cache?..and if so, how do I acces it....without having to go back to the site?

QuickTime Player has a "recently viewed" list (if the link was opened by the Player and not the browser plug-in).
New to QuickTime 7 is a browser caching option that lets each user set the "size" of this cache. Sys Prefs/QuickTime/Browser and set the size.
You can then "Favorite" those same cached files and view them "offline".

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What am I missing? Not getting? I have several MPEG movie files that proudly sport the Quicktime icon, but the Quicktime app tells me they're not movie files.
If Quicktime won't open them, is there conversion software I can use?
So much for productivity.

Didn't even consider it. I thought that because the file displayed the Quicktime icon and because I have Quicktime Pro, that Quicktime would play the file.
Unfortunately, this is a common misconception. However, now that you understand the problem, you can work on a solution. Basically, if by MPEG your are referring to common MPEG-2/MP2 content 'multiplexed" to an MPEG container, these can be played in the QT Player (or Front Row or iTunes) if you install the QT MPEG-2 Playback component ($19.99). However, be advised that this is a video only component, so it does not make "muxed" AC3 MPEG-2 files playback compatible with the QT player. Luckily, if you do decide to install this component, the free MPEG Streamclip application will allow you to play or convert such files to any QT compatible audio and video format for which you system is configured. Or, if all you want to do is play MPEG-2 video files without investing in the QT component, then you can view them with VLC but may have trouble converting them to a QT compatible format. HandBrake will also convert them without investing in the MPEG-2 component, but greatly limits your conversion possibilities. I personally would recommend buying the component as Neil recommended since it offers the greatest flexibility for playing without conversion, as well as, the most conversion options for all normal MPEP-2 Program and Transport Stream files you are likely to encounter using QT 7 Pro and/or MPEG Streamclip depending on the specific source content what you want to do with the final files.

I suddenly can't watch .mov files with the QuickTime Player x?

I suddenly can't watch .mov files with the QuickTime Player x? There is always the message, i should look after new software! Can you help me?

Handy-dandy cut and paste to the rescue!
you need to install some other stuff to get the full file functionality back.
Here's the list.
Start with QT 7.6.6. - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923
Get Perian, and install it. - http://perian.org
then VLC, - http://videolan.org
DivX - http://divx.com - and the
Flip4Mac package from Telestream - http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/
A52/AC3 downloader: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21875/a52codec - In this installer package there is an audio A52Codec.component. DO NOT USE IT! Throw it out and use the one that is linked below.
This is what I've put into my system and so far I've gotten every file to run fine, even my oldest videos.
These are codecs you should see.
In System/Library/QuickTime
     AppleIntermediateCodec.component
     AppleMPEG2Codec.component* (*optional if you've bought it)
     DivX Decoder.component
     Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
     Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
     Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
In your Home/Library/QuickTime/
     AC3MovieImport.component (you may or may not want this component, in some instances it causes conflicts. In my system, it doesn't. Who knows why? I don't.)
     Perian.component
For AC3 sound that is in most .mkv files, you need the A52Codec.component, this is the one you want, here: https://code.google.com/p/subler/downloads/detail?name=A52Codec.component.zip - unzip the file and put the component into the System/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components
Go back to your Perian settings and in the Audio Output button, set it to 'Multi Channel Sound' - Ignore the message Perian puts up and select it.
By doing a 'Get Info' on your files and where it says 'Open With' - default them to the QuickTime 7 program. Perian no longer will work with QuickTime Player so you must have QT 7.6.6 and set it so it is the default for all the filetypes you use.
It works perfectly with QT7. So far I've gotten ALL my old videos to play.
.avi, .mov (with the AC3 sound), .wmv, .flv, .mp4 and .m4v. all run fine as do all the older formats.
Good luck!
Deb.

IMovie Can't Find Movie File Location

I had to reinstall the OS and all software on my MacBook Pro and after I imported the Movie files back into iPhoto, iMovie can no longer find the movie files for the projects. When I open an iMovie project, there is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it. How can I tweak the iMovie project file to point to the movies in the new location?

It is not the easiest thing to do, but it is possible.
Please make a backup copy of the project file before attempting brain surgery.
An imovie project file (with extension .rcproject) is a package. Right click on your Project file in the Movies/iMovie Projects folder. Select Show Package Contents.
There should be a text file in there called Project.
It will be in hexadecimal, so you need a hex-capable text editor to read it.
I would suggest BBEdit (best but $$$) or PListEditPro (free from Apple).
In this file, you may be able to see the paths and filenames for the clips used in the project.
This is where iMovie expects to find the clips.
The least risky thing to do is to move them to where iMovie thinks they should be, with the right names. However, this may impact iPhoto if you are changing the iPhoto library without telling iPHoto.
So, alternatively, you could edit the file with the new paths and or file names.

How to find movie file from external hard drive in imovie?

i shot 29 gig of video on the road. i imported it into my macbook to the desktop. then i drag and dropped it into an external hard drive. now i have since dragged and dropped the file to my imac at home to work with it in imovie, but imovie cannot find any mpeg or any such movie file. i then tried to put it back to the canon hg10. after i plugged in the canon, i dragged the movie folder to the canon and it imported 29 gig. but the canon does not show any new movie files in the video mode. when i open import options in imovie, no new movies appear. any ideas?

For iMovie to see your file, it must be either on the internal drive, or it can also be on an external drive that is formatted as Mac OSX Extended (Journaled). (Not FAT32).
For the internal drive, your clips must be stored in a folder inside the Movies/iMovie Events/ folder.
For the external drive, your clips must be stored in a folder within the iMovie Events folder at the top level of the drive. Move your files there and then start iMovie, and it should see them.
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Finding movie files

The finder says I have 25 gigs of movie files. When I serch for .mov or .avi, I get just a mb's of files. How do I find the rest?

The mpg files should also be in iPhoto, and iMovie should be able to find them there.
If you open iMovie, it may ask you to allow it to generate thumbnails for iPhoto events. If so, say yes and give it some time.
There should be an Event in the Event Library called iPhoto Events, where you should be able to find all the videos from your still camera.

Finding .mov files in spotlight

I load my .mov files from my canon camera to iPhoto. I have a hard time searching for these videos when I go back and try to find them. I don't always remember the date to go look in iphoto for when the video was taken. If I want to pull up all .MOV files how do I do that? I tried spotlight and it doesn't display my .MOV files for some reason. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

You may want to try creating a smart folder with all your computers .MOV files in it that way you will always have them in one place.
To create a smart folder:
Mountain Lion: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11021
Lion: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4158

Logic is unable to find movie file

I have tried "everything", but Logic won't load my score. I imported a movie file from FCP and since it was a reference movie, the render files are gone (I've edited the film in FCP since). Now in Logic, it is trying to find those render files...they're gone. So how do I get around this. How do I tell Logic to forget that video file so I can import the new one? This is a ridiculous issue! Thanks for your help.

Pixelkid wrote:
I have tried "everything", but Logic won't load my score. I imported a movie file from FCP and since it was a reference movie, the render files are gone (I've edited the film in FCP since). Now in Logic, it is trying to find those render files...they're gone. So how do I get around this. How do I tell Logic to forget that video file so I can import the new one? This is a ridiculous issue! Thanks for your help.
Sorry to break the news to ya, but it's not an issue or even a ridiculous one. You deleted the files, so it's down to pilot error. Now, here are a few things you can do to remedy the situation...
*Suggestion 1* -- create a dummy movie. Length, content, doesn't matter. Give that movie exactly the same name as the original and put it in exactly the same location as where the original movie lived. Then try and load your session. Logic's not going to know the difference between the original file and that one, so it should load.
*Suggestion 2* -- launch Logic and hold down the CNTRL key while it launches. You'll get a message asking if you want to run CoreAudio. Say "no". Then try and load your file.
Or... if you have Logic up and running already, turn off CoreAudio in your prefs. Then try and load the file. Once it's loaded up, delete the movie from within Logic.
*Suggestion 3* -- find a copy of the original files in your backups. Restore them to their original location, including the proxy (reference) movie file.

Is it a bug -- can't find movie file data "expo-3" ???

I am having a problem with the new iLife 06 suite though I believe this relates back to Tiger. After installation, I launched Garageband and received the below message. The same thing happens while opening a QT-file with FCE. Both applications are telling me that
"the movie-file data "expo-3" cannot be found, without this file the app cannot play properly"
I really don't know where this came from, but it appeared after the installation. Repaired permissions and restarted but still maintaining this problem. Any idea?
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I am assuming that this may be fixed in the next upgrade, right?!

Where can I find movie files in iDVD?

Hello,
So, I have lost a quicktime movie file that I made in iMovie and cannot locate the file anywhere on my HD. However, when I open the iDVD Project (iDVD 7.1.2) I made to make a DVD the movie plays fine inside of the project. Does this mean the movie file still exists on my Hard Drive somewhere? Is there any way to access the file? I have looked in the Movies Library in iDVD and it is not there! Thoughts?
Thanks,
John

It will be located inside the iDVD project package under
However, they will not have any of the audio associated with the video. And the extension will have to be changed to .mov but again with no sound.
For future projects is you save the project as an archived project file
all of the media files, photo, video, etc., that are used in the project will be copied into the project file in the Assets folder:
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.MOV file unreadable in QuickTime

Hi!
I am trying to open and read a .mov file on my computer (late 2008 2.4 Ghz Macbook running the latest Snow Leopard) and QuickTime X won't open it, telling me that it's not a format recognised by QuickTime and that I might have to download additional softwares to read it. I have tried to open the file with QuickTime 7, VLC, Final Cut Express 4, and iMovie 09 as well. I have Perian and Flip4Mac installed. Nothing works. QuickTime seems to open other .mov files without any problem.
I have checked the Info of the file and it's an HD video (1920x1080) with MPEG-2 Video, Linear PCM and Timecode as codecs.
I have thought that the MPEG-2 Playback codec could solve the problem but it seems to be for Quicktime 7 and l'm pretty sure the file could be read with QuickTime X on the original Mac Pro, though on this point I might be mistaken.
The file was transferred from a Mac Pro to my Macbook through a Western Digital My Passport (FireWire 800 and USB 2.0) external hard drive. Could the hard drive possibly have corrupted the file in one way or another? What I found odd was that the file was "locked" (with a padlock on the icon) on the hard drive and when transferred on my computer. I can unlock it in Info but I don't understand why it was locked, was it already like that on the original computer, is it something the hard drive does, and most importantly, does it have anything to do with me not being able to read it with QuickTime?
Anybody knows something that can help? Thanks!
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It doesn't. I think the problem is that i had FileVault on when the files were backed up to the Western Digital external drive. I needed to turn FileVault off because my account had reached its maximum space and I needed to raise the level. The files were backed up in encrypted mode to the WDD, then I had to delete them off the MacBook to free up space on my account to turn FileVault off (freakin stupid thing to do but that is what was required). Once FileVault was off, i tried to restore those files and now they are unreadable.
So my assessment is that they are still encrypted, but the computer doesn't know how to deencrypt to open them. Talk with Apple service today and they weren't sure if turning FileVault back on would allow me to deencrypt the files on the WDD. I tried it, nope. didn't work.
So I am stuck with 5 months of videos of my toddler son that are on my backup, but no way to bring them back in a readable format. Hence my "slightly" panicking state.
What doesn't make sense is that if you have FileVault on and you are backing up your files to an external and they are encrypted, shouldn't you be able to restore them if your computer crashed and you had to reset everything, including FileVault? So far, all the answers are "don't know, you could be screwed."
Thoughts???

.mov files play in quicktime 10 but not quicktime 7

i have .mov files that I made in the qt version before 7
I upgraded my OSX to 10.6.7
I purchased the Pro version of QT 7
It will not play my .mov files
However, my other machine that also runs OSX 10.6.7 has QT 10 installed and it plays the movies
So...
I tried to find Quicktime 10 to purchase on the Apple site and they do not sell it
will it be on my snow leopard install disks?

i have .mov files that I made in the qt version before 7
I upgraded my OSX to 10.6.7
I purchased the Pro version of QT 7
It will not play my .mov files
However, my other machine that also runs OSX 10.6.7 has QT 10 installed and it plays the movies
Compare the audio and video compression formats used in the MOV files against the QT component configuration of the two systems in question. You will likely find that the codec components needed to play the MOV files are not installed on upgraded system or the have broken paths or simply need to be updated to work correctly with the non playing system.
I tried to find Quicktime 10 to purchase on the Apple site and they do not sell it
will it be on my snow leopard install disks?
It is installed by the Snow Leopard installer but is not stored as a separate application. (I.e., it would have to be extracted from the Snow Leopard installer package but cannot be installed on non-Snow Leopard operating systems.

Old mov files pixelate on Quicktime 7.6

Just updated to Quicktime 7.6 and found that old mov files (over 5 years old) now have a lot of pixel distortion over the video during playback. This did not happen on previous Quicktime version as I viewed some of these files within the last two weeks.
Can anyone help with a fix for this?
Can I install an old version of quicktime just to play these older files?

Cinepak is completely out of date, and from 18 years ago.
Cinepak is a video codec developed by Peter Barrett at SuperMac Technologies, and released in 1991 with the Video Spigot, and then in 1992 as part of Apple Computer's QuickTime video suite. It was designed to encode 320x240 resolution video at 1x (150 kbyte/s) CD-ROM transfer rates. The codec was ported to the Microsoft Windows platform in 1993. It was also used on first-generation and some second-generation CD-ROM game consoles, such as the Atari Jaguar CD, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and 3DO.
It was the primary video codec of early versions of QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows, but was later superseded by Sorenson Video, Intel Indeo, and most recently MPEG-4 and H.264. However, movies compressed with Cinepak are generally still playable in most media players.
Cinepak is based on vector quantization, which is a significantly different algorithm from the discrete cosine transform (DCT) algorithm used by most current codecs (in particular the MPEG family, as well as JPEG). This permitted implementation on relatively slow CPUs, but tended to result in blocky artifacting at low bitrates, which explained the criticism levelled at the FMV-based video games.
(From Wikipedia)

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Hi,
I recently upgraded to OS X 10.8.2. I have the newest Quicktime (10.2) and Quicktime 7 (Pro). There seems to be a problem with Quicktime 10.2. It opens, but cannot play, my .mov files. Quicktime 7 still plays them perfectly, though.
Any thoughts on how to fix this would be appreciated. Thanks!
-AO

There's nothing to fix.
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Use both versions.

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