Importing QuickTime Player Files

I have iTunes 7.6.2 and a friend sent me a audiobook as QuickTime Player files. Now I want to add them to iTunes and listen to them there, but when I go to import and choose one of the files, it doesn't do anything. I can click it, it just doesn't respond. What should I do so that it will allow me to import them. Thanks.

Here is a list of video formats supported by Aperture:
Aperture 3: About Video and Audio formats in Aperture:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4025?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Canon 5D Mark II
.mov
H.264
640x480
30
For your Canon 5D only the H.264 is supposed to be supported; have you checked if the movies have been imported correctly from your camara by opening them in Quicktime or iMovie? I don't have your camera model, so I cannot try it myself, but usually Aperture should open the movies directly, without falling back on Quicktime.

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Here is the How to import in itunes 11. Including the Join tracks option.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12278
Also if you have imported them then this article gives a good understanding of how to tag these songs
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/audiobooks.asp
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I have several quicktime movie files that were saved on my MacBook prior to the Snow Leopard upgrade as downloaded movies using the old version of QTpro. The MacBook is now running the latest OS. I can still open these files using either the 10.0 player (90.3.1) or the old pro player version 7.6.3 (630) on the MacBook. On my MacPro that shipped with Snow Leopard installed, I cannot open these movie files and get the "the movie is in a format that QT does not understand.." with either version of the player on the MacPro.
I've tried to save the files as new .mov files on the MacBook, but the MacPro still cannot open them. I need to be able to get these movie files into Keynote on the PowerMac and work with them on the PowerMac. Can anyone suggest how to get past this problem? Could I have some QT component on my MacBook that is missing on the MacPro and if so, how do I find it?
...wishing Apple would stop hosing their QTpro customers with every OS upgrade.

On my MacPro that shipped with Snow Leopard installed, I cannot open these movie files and get the "the movie is in a format that QT does not understand.."
Sounds as if someone forgot to update their QT component installation on the newer platform. Basically, you need to be sure that both platforms can access the same set of QT components -- i.e., the ones required for the movies in question. In some cases where users have added Snow Leopard after purchase, the components (the QT MPEG-2 Playback component and/or the Perian component package in particular) seem to get "lost" during the new OS installation and may need to be reinstalled to re-link them with the dual 32-/64-bit QT structure. However, in your case, a simple comparison of the QT component folders and/or check of the Inspector/Properties window to see which QT components are causing the problem, should reveal what is going on.
I've tried to save the files as new .mov files on the MacBook, but the MacPro still cannot open them.
Saving files to a new/different file does not convert/re-compress the actual data. Instead, it merely re-writes the same compression format(s) to a new MOV file container. E.g., "muxed" MPEG-1, WMV, or H.264/AAC data can be re-wrapped in an new container but would still require their original QT components for proper viewing/conversion.

Error importing Quicktime Ref file

Until yesterday i could import a quicktime reference file from AVID to AME. Since today i get the message that the file may be corrupted. I did a test with different files (also with files which worked until yesterday) and i got always the same error message. I didn`t made any changes in my settings.
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That's how I got to Adobe, when Media Composer 6 came out with all the issues. I uninstalled Avid completely, went to the Adobe Cloud thinking the grass was greener with all the hype. I do high end weddings and my sequences are normally anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour long and I grade every single clip. That means hundreds or over a thousand or so clips and lots of noise removal for the reception parts. The built in filters for color grading in Premiere is way too hard to use and are nothing like anything I have ever used to color grade with, so the only options were Colorista or go to After Effects and use Color Finesse. Don't like Colorista, way to limiting, if you have ever done real color grading, you will know what I mean. Adobe Dynamic Link for the first couple of clips works okay but soon every time you move in Premiere you have to wait 30 seconds or more for the frame to come up, even with quality turned all the way down. When I finally would finish a project and try to open in Encore it would take 20 minutes to open, would work a little and then Encore would crash. Wait another 20 minutes for it to open, repeat the process over and over again. Tried to encode the project first in AME and it was not unusual to get 10 hours into an encode and then Adobe would just stop encoding for no reason (lots of others having same issues, no fix just lots of troubleshooting and workarounds). When I finally did get through the 22 hours render if there was no issues with the project I would take it into Encore where things would go faster but Encore has lots of issues (can't burn directly to disk, you have to built to a folder and then burn that to disk and not to mention all the errors you get when trying to build to the folder). If you are going to create DVDs and a Blu-rays you have to created projects in Encore for both from scratch.
Spent days every project reading forums where others are having the same issues, trying different workarounds and after finally getting it done, the next project running into the same issues. I have only mentioned a couple of the issues I had and lots of other people are having also, with no real fixes, just lots of troubleshooting or workarounds. Every project I would try something new like, I will try to simplify my work flow and try to do everything in Premiere and maybe it will work better and faster. Color Finesse has a version that can work in Premiere Pro, so maybe if it works, I will buy it and work only in Premier. Got the demo and nope, not only does it crash but Premier Pro does not through 32bit video to Color Finesse so that makes that program useless, glad I did not buy it. According to Synthetic Aperture this is a Premiere thing and there solution was to send a product suggestion to Adobe.
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Importing Quicktime Audio File into itunes

I have a couple quicktime audio files that I'm trying to import into my itunes library. When I try to simply drag them into my itunes library it will not accept them.
Also I tried using the import control from the itunes window, but when I choose the the quicktime file to import it also will not go into my library. These files where orginally windows media files inwhich I converted over using the "flip4mac" program to convert the windows media files to quicktime files, but neither file type will import into itunes.
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Ya, looks like the file is still a real WMA file and all that application did was give your QT the ability to play WMA files perhaps? I am not familiar with that one. You need to locate a WMA to MP3 file converter. Some that come to mind are MediaMonkey, EasyWMA, and there are many others. Those first two might both be shareware programs and I don't have any first hand experience with them. I really haven't had the need to do this type of conversion (yet) so haven't looked into the various applications. Perhaps someone reading this can chime in if they know any free ones that work.
In the meantime, hit up versiontracker.com or download.com and do a search and see what you find. But the root cause of your problem is that the file is still in the wrong format for iTunes and iPod use.
Patrick

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I have been successfully pulling the files off a DVD using DVDxDV, and using that to export to Quicktime in .mov NTSC format. Then I can import into iMovie HD. It's been fine, but I have one file now that will not import. When i try to import it, it gives me an error message and says there isn't enough disk space to import it. But I was able to import other files, same size, and the window at the bottom of iMovie says there is more than 20 GB available. I thought maybe there was something wrong with that one file, so I went through the extraction process again, but that one file will still not import, even if I start a new empty project. The file is 1.4 GB, but the project has only about 25 minutes of video and this new file is about another 8 minutes.
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if it is already in DV format you really do not have to import it
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You can just put a plain .dv stream in the Media folder and iMovie will digest it OK (if it is the same PAL/NTSC and 4:3/16:9 spec as the receiving project).
But this doesn't work with DV-encoded .mov files which the OP may have. iMovie HD will sort of imports it, but if you add a title, it will have bad artifacts.
I prefer to use MPEG Streamclip which, unlike some of its rivals, allows to convert DVD/VOB/MPEG to .dv stream which is iMovie's native format. For some strange reason other apps can convert to only .mov.
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Hi. I'm trying to improve my music production skills by emulating the tracks of techno artists that I like.
My idea is to import one of their mp3 files into an audio track in Logic, so that I can see how they developed their songs.
After I import the song, it plays fine. But is there anyway to make it so that the track matches up with the grid without altering the tempo of the track itself? Somehow I think if I knew what the tempo for the track was, I could just adjust the tempo for the project and the song would fall in sync with the grid.
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You can find a BPM Counter in the metering folder in your audio plug ins. Just pop that baby on the track you're trying to analyze, hit play, and it will calculate the BPM. Then set the track to that and you're good to go.
Check out this video too on Beat Mapping, it's got a lot of cool info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqS1UX51teQ

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Hi there - Okay,,I'm a real Noob,,but I can't understand why I can't import .AVI files when apparently I should be able to. I have just purchased a Toshiba Camelio S20 and have taken some test movie shots and when I've tried to open them in iMovie or just open them in finder I get the following message
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Heya - thank you so much - have done what you suggested and now i can import the clips into iMovie - no problem!
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I have a bunch of .MOV clips on my hard drive that I'd like to ultimately import to Final Cut Express (4.0.1) to edit (my wedding video!!). If I double click on the clip, it automatically opens in QuickTime Player (7.6.9), and I then prompted to a QuickTime Components website. I'm not sure why the .MOV clips won't play, since I believe I have the latest version of QT. What should I do?
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QuickTime Player 10.1 no more includes the ability to save a movie file in the same format as the original movie after editing it? No, it doesn't!

Since upgraded to Lion, I have to wait for QuickTime Player 10.1 to "CONVERT" every file that I edited in it.
Yes, it might save some disk space for me.(Which is not always the case though.) But it also takes almost 10 times or more as it did when back on Snow Leopard with QuickTime Player 10.0 there I could save any file in the same format as the original movie WITH NO NEED TO CONVERT IT.
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It seems obvious from other forum posts this is a planned move so that everything is the "new mobile device" ready state/format. To use Marc Speth's post as material....
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23749558#23749558
this is probably about dumbing down desk top OS to that pf iPhones and iPads. This is not what I paid good money to own a Mac Book Pro for....
Today I rolled all the back to Snow Leopard. Really good move...... All those new features hey? I lost the ability to work in spaces and of course the whole Quicktime debacle.
The rolling back process was easy, restored from a point prior to installing Lion and Mavericks and the only issue was my iPhoto libraries. Thank my stars that I still had back ups that I had not converted yet.... viva la Mavericks...NOT. Apple can keep it.
Unsure if you are just venting or if there is supposed to be a question here. Basically, I assumed this to be Apple's idea of an improvement. That is, I really believe the ProRes 422 codec is a better intermediate codec than the AIC codec but most of my old HDV camcorder family tapes were imported by iMovie (for compatibility with my wife's non-FCP computer configuration) and, like your content, is/remains stored as AIC/PCM MOV files. At first I thought this might be a generalized change affecting all QT X based apps but when I went to check the latest iMovie v10.0 update, became confused when I noted that AIC source files were not automatically updated to ProRes 422 and continue to play natively in the iMovie source media viewer.
I guess this is supposed to be a logical evoluption and we were supposed to have seen the "handwriting on the wall" dating back to when Apple's first released the free ProRess "player" ProRes 422 codec. Still, it would have been nice if Apple had given some warning during the last few years so users could plan and prepare for such a drastic change. For the moment, I am just thankful that AIC remains, at least temporarily, supported nativelyby the iMovie video editor under Mavericks. Thank goodness for small favors.

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Hi,when i use contextual menu's " get info " on .mov file,these things are written:
Dimensions:880x660
Codecs:Sorenson Video 3,MPEG Layer 3,PNG.
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Suggest you check to see if your wife's third-party configuration includes the Perian codec component and your system does not since this is the codec which my sytsem defaults to for the playback of Sorenson/MP3 MOV content as seen here:
Good Luck!

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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.
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     Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
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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.
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Deb.

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