Final Cut won't play sped up video

I'm trying to speed up the video to match audio, but whenever I do Final Cut plays it for about a second and then stops playing?

Well I used to just adjust it and it would play on my Mac Pro before. I don't remember needing to render the change to see the results, it would just play. I'm on a Macbook Pro now though, with the same speed drive 7200 RPM.
Is there a formula for adjusting video to the same amount as audio's BPM?
For example, if you have audio that is sped up from 105 BPM to 120 BPM, and the video matches the original 105 BPM, so now it needs to be adjusted to 120.

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Codec:                               pcm
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Just like me with broadcast TV shows. I deliver the most pristine version I can to the network. But then they convert it to a digital file that they then beam out to cable and satellite providers, who then compress it again to play on their systems. And then it arrives at grandma's house and plays on her TV. I have no control how my grandma receives the signal, nor how her TV is set up. Unless I am nice and tweak things when I go visit. But I can't do this at every house that might want to watch my show.

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Hello:
This is my first post. I read through the forums and this seems to be the correct place to pose my question. If it's not, my apologizes.
I'm trying to find out why Quicktime 7.6.4 won't play h264-encoded video on my MacMini (G4 PPC). I'm running 10.4.11. I recently installed Perian 1.2.1 and it got some .avi files to play correctly, whereas before there was no sound. But the h264 files still get me a black screen, albeit with sound now. Some h264 files can be played in VLC Media Player (but that's a horrible player compared to Quicktime in my opinion, as it constantly drops frames and eats 100% of my processor time), but VLC even has the black screen problem on some h264 files as well.
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Mr Ram,
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GNU/Linux's free offerings
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Your Problem
Quicktime 7.X applications can not play +H.264/MPEG-4 AVC+ streams. It was a bug Apple never fixed. Frames are dropped because H.264 is so slow that it requires special hardware. You, I'm sad to say, don't have it.
To quote the Wikipedia on Quicktime: 'QuickTime 7 lacks support for H.264's Sample Aspect Ratio .[67] QuickTime X does not have this limitation; many Apple products (such as iTunes and Apple TV) still use the older QuickTime 7 engine.'
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kushyton wrote:
it shows in hd on quiktime. when i upload it to youtube it is much more blurry. am i doing somthing wrong???
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