Keynote fails to play quick time movies

HI,
I am trying to play a quicktime movie which I added to one of the slides. It starts out fine then the screen goes white but the control at the bottom of the screen shows that the movie is still playing. Some times you get the same white slide when you try to stop a movie while it is playing and drag the cursor back to replay a part of the movie again. Other quicktime movies do fine. And this quick time movie plays fine in quicktime. The white slide you get when you are trying to replay a section of quicktime movies can be fixed by going back one slide and and coming back to the movie slide and playing it again. If some one has a fix please let me know. I have seen this happen with other people using quicktime in keynote too.

For instance if you go to this page again in Safari,
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf06/
and then select "View Source" from the View menu, then press command-f to "find" within the page and search for ".mov"
You will find this, which shows the url of the movie itself.
<param name="href" value="http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/mw2006/mmw_2006_650ref.mov">
If you copy just this part:
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/mw2006/mmw_2006_650ref.mov
And open QuickTime Player, go to the File menu, select "Open URL" the movie will play.
If you try the same technique on the page at the link provided by your client, it will allow you to bypass the html code that may be doing an outdated compatibility check and the movie may play. Or it may tell you that you are missing components (codecs, compressors etc.) in which case, post here again.

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We have Quick Time 7.0.4 player installed on Mac OS X v10.4, But we are unable to open Quick time movies in web browser from external web sites.
It gives us error ‘To view this movie, you will need QuickTime 5 (or later)’
If we open Quick time movies from local disk in web browser then it works perfectly alright.
Could you please let us know the reason behind this?
Note: I have encounter this problem on safari and IE 5.2 browser.

For instance if you go to this page again in Safari,
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf06/
and then select "View Source" from the View menu, then press command-f to "find" within the page and search for ".mov"
You will find this, which shows the url of the movie itself.
<param name="href" value="http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/mw2006/mmw_2006_650ref.mov">
If you copy just this part:
http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jan/mw2006/mmw_2006_650ref.mov
And open QuickTime Player, go to the File menu, select "Open URL" the movie will play.
If you try the same technique on the page at the link provided by your client, it will allow you to bypass the html code that may be doing an outdated compatibility check and the movie may play. Or it may tell you that you are missing components (codecs, compressors etc.) in which case, post here again.

Quicktime Broadcaster Play quick time movie

Can Quicktime Broadcaster play a .mov video file... or can it only use camera inputs?
CamCamX has the ability to play video as if it were the isight camera... but this software is more than I need. I just need to play one video through Broadcaster.
I want to use broadcaster as opposed to the server because most days I do a live broadcast through broadcaster. On days that i do not I just want to play a prerecorded file. But my viewers will come to the same link so I want to use the same application.

The file must meet the following specifications to play correctly.
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
-or-
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats.
You may need a 3rd party converter to convert the file with both audio and video.
See this for help: Guide to converting video for iPod (Mac/Windows).

I just updated tosystem10.6.8. I am running Iphoto 08 version 7.1.5 Quick time movies will not open and play directly in Iphoto. When I move them to my desktop they play fine.Quick time 10.0 What do I need to do?

I just updated tosystem10.6.8. I am running Iphoto 08 version 7.1.5 Quick time movies will not open and play directly in Iphoto. When I move them to my desktop they play fine.Quick time 10.0 What do I need to do?

You need to download and install QuickTime Player 7 for Mac OS X v10.6.3 or later
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Quick time movies (.mov) files will not play in Iphoto 11.

Quick time movies (.mov) files will not play in Iphoto 11. The thumbnail of the movie shows but when selected only a exclamation mark appears. I rebuilt the library, thumbnails, permissions etc. I also found the movie files in the iphoto database intact and working. Please advise.

You're welcome.
Well believe it or not, that's exactly what the exclamation point means. Search the forum. I've been doing this a while.
Next, I have no interest, commercial or otherwise in Library Manager, I have no shares in the company that makes it. I didn't make it. It's not my software. You could give those guys a million dollars and I'll get nothing from it. I and other expereinced users have recommended it thousands of times on this forum for this problem. Amazing how often it works. Of course, a quick search would have told you that already.
Another: Believe it or not you can use the Rebuild Function of Library Manager for free. You don't need to purchase it for that purpose.
Y'all have a nice paranoid day now.
Regards
TD

I have used still photos to make a Quick Time movie using FCE. The DVD made using i-DVD looks somewhat grainy and the motion isn't smooth when played on my TV. Other DVD's I have made play much better and I am wondering if the problem is my Quick Time m

I have used still photos to make a Quick Time movie using FCE. The DVD made using i-DVD looks somewhat grainy and the motion isn’t smooth when played on my TV. Other DVD’s I have made play much better and I am wondering if the problem is my Quick Time movie settings. The Dimensions and size of the problem movie are 1920X1080 and 584 MB respectively, while the movies that play better have Dimensions of 853X480 and are about 1.3 GB in size. Is this the source of my problem and how do I change things for the better.

Are you exporting to QuickTime Movie, or to QuickTime Conversion? For iDVD, you need to export to QuickTime Movie. Exporting to QT Conversion will kill the quality if you are moving the video from FCE to iDVD.
The file size per se makes no difference.
What size (pixel dimensions) are the photos that you put into your 1920x1080 sequence? Also, exactly what are the sequence properties ... is it 1920x1080i60 ... or i50? In North America it should be i60.
853X480 is an odd frame size. Where are you seeing this number? It would appear to be DV-NTSC, which has a frame size of 720x480. Your 1920x1080 frame size would not be DV-NTSC, it would be Apple Intermediate Codec. DV and AIC will look different, for sure.
Also, your quality setting in iDVD can affect the final video. You may want to check that also (in iDVD Preferences > Projects). Set it to Professional Quality if at all possible.

How can i convert a quick time movie file to a cd that will play in a car stereo?

how can i convert a quick time movie file to a cd that will play in a car stereo?

In quicktime, I would try File -> Export -> Audio. It will create an audio file. Then drop it onto your playlist into iTunes. Burn the list from itunes with File -> Burn to disk and then select Audio CD.
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I have made a widescreen Quick time movie in iPhoto by exporting it to the desktop. It's 1500x660. Works great when played in Quick Time player on the wide screen TV from my computer. When I import it into iDVD, it shows ok in preview(with a note that says widescreen preview). When I burn it to a DVD it comes out skued and elongated. What can I do to prevent this?
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Fshippy,
I am puzzled by your statement : "you should be using iLife 06"
I recently finished a project containing:
1 iMovie 4:3
1 iMovie 16:9
90 pictures slideshow (2:3)
I used iLife 05.
I produced a DvD containing three chapters: one for each film and one for the slideshow.
The result is as follows when played on my set-top:
The DvD intro is in widescreen (I defined it that way) my TV-set switches to widescreen when the DvD starts, then the DvD menu comes up in aspectratio 4:3 (that's correct as there are no standard themes in 16:9)
when I play the films:
The 4:3 plays correctly
When I play the 16:9 film my TV-set switches automaticcaly to 16:9, this film plays correctly. When finished TV switches back to the menu 4:3
When I play the slideshow it plays without any distortion of the images.
As the originator talks "widescreen" I am not sure if he means 16:9 or HD.
Anyway, I don't experience any problems in bringing widescreen (16:9) to DvD using iDvD
Are you indeed specifiacally refering to HD or also to widescreen (16:9) ?
I did not produce HD sofar.
Ben

What actually is Quick Time movie?

Hello guys,
when exporting my HDV video project from FCP using Quick Time movie option, what actually is it? When I look at file info, it says .mov file, Quick Time movie format, codec HDV 1920x1080. So what is Quick Time movie? And how it differs from let's say QuickTime in Compressor?
Thank you.

As has already been stated, a .mov file is like a box that contains video and audio. The video and audio could be made from any number of codecs.
There is NO universal high quality video file format that will playback an all systems or platforms. In order for ANY video/audio file to playback on any given system/platform, it MUST HAVE the codecs used to make those files installed on that system. There are many QuickTime .mov files that will NOT playback on a Mac, IF the specific codec needed isn't installed on that Mac.
The same is true with the .avi files format; .avi is just a box like QuickTime.
You're best bet would be to identify the playback systems requirements for video/audio files and then target your output for that. Do it for every system/platform/delivery method that the file will be played on.
For example, I produced a program that would be played at the main branch of our library. Their playback system required an MPEG-2 Transport Stream and had very specific bit rate requirements. They also wanted the program to air on the local PBS channel, which had totally different requirements. And finally, they wanted several copies on DVD to distribute to donors whom helped make the exhibit possible. So with just one program, I had to output three different file types for this one project. This is also true of television broadcast. Different broadcasters will have different requirements. Some want BetaSP tape, some want DigiBeta. Some want an MPEG-2 Program Stream and some might even want a DVD-Video. Don't expect there to be a "one file fits all" type of situation.
-DH

Importing quick time movie issues

Should be simple - but: I am putting together a video presentation using photos on iPhoto, converted to a slideshow and exported as a quicktime movie (.mov)
So far so good
Then I need to import to iMovie to do additional editing. I have done this before, no issues.
However, when I try to import, the .mov file is not available. It shows in finder, I can access and play via finder etc, but from the drop menue on iMovie it is not accessible -
what's up?!?!?

this is really confounding me, it should be so simple
First I tried simply exporting the iPhoto slideshow and kept getting
The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -9459.)
Then used the drop down menu to export to quick time and have a successful export, showing in finder and playable, but cannot import it to iMovie for further work.
Then, tried removing any music and text and tried to re-export as quick time movie, and got
"free up disk space" when there is plenty of disk space available.
Then tried to export as mpeg4 and got
The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -9459.)
again,
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Creating Quick Time Movie with Photos' Titles?

When exporting an album to a Quick Time MOV file is there any way to export the titles for photos too? If not, is there a way to create a "universal" slide show that plays on all OS's with titles?

EarthBased:
What is the ultimate destination of this slideshow? If it's for a DVD project post back as there are other steps to take to make sure the titles display on screen. Or you can use a 3rd party slideshow application that gives you more flexibility as to where the titles are placed. PhotoPresenter is one (very inexpensive) and has over 20 animated themes as well.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

How to improve the quality of the quick time movie file

When I press command + option + enter, the graphics looks very good but when I look at the quick time mov I saved, its so bad. It's fine if I 'drag' the quick time window to the smallest but when I look at it in full screen mode, the picture is so bad... What can I do to improve the quality?
Please give me step by step instrustion
Flash CS4 I am using, action script 3.0

The text in your original Flash movie is a vector representation. The text is drawn to the screen using a mathematical structure that is resolution independent and so the text will look crisp and sharp regardless of the enlargement or reduction of the image. When you take this Flash movie and export it as a compressed video file using the Quicktime file format, you are turning that vector image into a raster image. The compressor that you choose when exporting the file to Quicktime takes the text as it sits on the stage, at whatever that stage size is, and records the pixels. These pixels are then compressed by one means or another to produce a manageable file that can be played back in a linear method using the Quicktime player.
In other words, there's a lot going on in that export. Flash works best when it can work with just vector artwork. Flash is a runtime playback tool. The Flash file is stored as a set of instructions for the Flash player to execute when the user plays the file. Quicktime is a file format. The Quicktime player reads the comressed file and decompresses that file as it plays. It is a linear process. It starts at the beginning and goes until it stops. Quicktime's compressors take the original content and compress that content by storing the information about the pixels that make up the file. Quicktime, and all of the other video file wrappers, play back best when the final file is played at the same size and frame rate as the original. Like any pixel based image, the quality of the image degrades as it is enlarged.
Some compressors can provide a better quality image when enlarged, some don't. There is no 1,2,3 for creating great QT from Flash. You'll need to work through the compromises of original stage size, video compressor, audio compressor, output size, frame rate, color depth, video keyframing, etc. What works very well for one file will work less well for another file.

Difficulties rendering high quality (high definition) Quick Time movies

Some time ago I also asked for suggestion to obtain high definition quick time movies to play on an Apple iMac. Here is what I hae used:
My camera is a Sony HDR FX1, and I am shooting in HD fomrat which is 1440 x 1080 25 fps interlaced. My project settings are PAL HDV1080i. I capture my footage using HDVSplit, so the file format that I import into PRE8 is .m2t.
As outputsettings I have created my own settings, as the two default settings available have lower resolution and quality, so I changed the settings to the full frame size of my footage (1440 x 1080) and also adjusted the frame rate to 25fps. Also I have increased the quality to 100%, but the output shows 10% quality if I may say so: very pixelated.
I have updated my graphic card (nVidia) to the most recent version, as well as Quick Time. What else could I do to improve the qualtiy of the output?

That's a tough one. I'm not sure what to suggest. Sometimes when you create your own output presets, you change something you shouldn't (like making the video anamorphic rather than a square pixel H.264, for instance) that can negatively affect the quality.
You may want to post this to the Muvipix hi-def forum. Lots of very smart, very helpful video people there -- and if there's an answer, it's likely someone there knows it.
One other solution is to use the Mac rather than Premiere Elements to convert this file. Both iMovie and Final Cut should be capable of working with those HDV files natively, and they live in the land of MOVs.

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I found out that if you stretch the moviescreen too much Quick Time can't handle it any more ( stretching and playing) and after about 20 minutes it starts halting ( as if it only plays 10 frames per second).
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