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I'm making movies which have to be rendered out as an image sequence but when I play back the footage in Quicktime it is totally jerky and is skipping massively only using about 8 frames in a 250 frame sequence as far as I can see. It is totally unusable which is heartbreaking after so much work.
Quicktime movies other than image sequence ones play fine.
All the frames are there and numbered correctly.
This is a problem that started a few weeks ago and gradually got worse and worse.
It was suggested elsewhere that there wasn't enough hard drive space so I freed up a load and if anything it's now much worse.
Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong and how to fix it? Is there yet another obscure setting somewhere no one tells you about?
Thanks.
ti book 1 gig mhrz, 1 gig RAM, 60 gig HD Mac OS X (10.4.8) rendering image sequences from Artlantis and Poser. Both have same playback issue in Quicktime.

"Small files and big ones" is not really enough to go on. What codec are you using? A small 10 second clip in H264 at 640X480 and 10 mb/sec might choke all but the mightiest macs.

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