Mov files won't play in Quicktime?

Hi,
I have to cut some footage with Final Cut Pro. I used an G5 for that which worked fine. But I have to change to a MacBook Pro with Intel Core2 Duo now, because the G5 is to slow.
Sadly, the footage I have won't play with Quicktime and - of course - neither with Final Cut Pro on the Intel Mac. I just have the sound, but no video. Seems like a codec is missing. but when I download the codec it won't install because it seems to be already installed...
I don't know how the footage was captured, I assume with FCP though... Info says: "Apple Intermediate Codec".
I updated everything except "Compressor" because the update fails.
I use MacOS 10.6.2 with my old FinalCut Pro HD 4.5 (Rosetta). I have Perian installed.
What can I do?
Message was edited by: schnapphase

This is a quick time Codec problem... I want nothing to do with FinalCut...
I have a series of videos from my wedding that I want to convert into some other format that can be edited in Premier.
The videos open in quicktime, but only give me audio and no video. VLC will wont even play them saying
"No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "icod". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."
Any ways, I opened them up in quicktime and get the properties of the videos
Video track - 27.58MB - Apple Intermediate Codec
Sound track - 531.72KB - Integer (Little Endian)
The file itself is 28MB, so I know the video is still in there somewhere.
If someone could please tell me how to convert these, I would be greatly appreciated. These are the only videos of my wedding, so I really need them to be saved.
Please email me if you might have any suggestions.
Thanks
Message was edited by: JDizle96

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