MOV exported from FCP7 won't play on Mac

iMac with OSx 10.5.8. My daughter exported a movie from Final Cut Pro at her film school into mov format. It shows as HDV. We were told that MPEG 2 would allow us to play this, so I purchased that add-on, but no luck! Quicktime just vaguely tells us that it needs a codec, but no clue as to what.
I've installed perian in the hopes that this might help, but also nothing. We get a black screen for video, but can hear the audio. She's actually just going to cut it to a DVD tomorrow, but we run into this issue frequently trying either to import things into Final Cut Pro or watch what has been exported out, and it would be nice to know how to fix the issue so that we can see this obviously awesome movies she's creating
Any help appreciated.
Danita

HDV isn't a MPEG-2 video so the playback component you brought won't help. HDV is an editing format not a delivery format. Your going need Final Cut Pro on your computer to be able to play the video. The work around is for your daughter is to send you the video in the h.264 format. All Macs and Windows (if the have Quicktime 7 installed) computers can play this video format.

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• Use iMovie up to HD6 or FinalCut - as iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - just delivers every second line to iDVD = less resolution
• There are no HD-DVD in real life - DVD is as standard SD-Video
• If You must use iMovie'11 then do not use "Share to iDVD" BUT "Share to Media Browser" and as Large (Not HD or other resolution - as result will suffers)
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1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (vers 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
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• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no QT-conversion)
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HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
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• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx 25Gb.
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• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
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Region codes.
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unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
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TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround eg EnergySaver
• Don’t let HD spinn down or be turned off (in EnergySave)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screensaver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
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