Iphoto 08 no longer plays movies/video clips.

For a month or so now, IPhoto 08 has stopped playing video clips. They seem to import as usual, but when i click the thumbnails for video clips, nothing happens. They used to work fine. Please help. I am using snow leopard too.

I had the same problem with my videos after transferring them from my old imac running iPhoto 08 and leopard into my new imac running iPhoto 09 with snow leopard. What worked for me was moving all the videos out of the iphoto library and into a new folder. Make sure their gone from iphoto or you'll end up with duplicates. Select one of the video files from the finder window and press command-i to get info. Uncheck the box that reads "locked" and reimport the file into iphoto. Now when I double click the file in iphoto it opens quicktime x and plays the file just like its supposed to. Try it with one video first and if it works you can do all the videos. Hope this helps

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