Nikon D90 M-Jpeg

Help! A colleague has the Nikon D90, with HD-movie mode. Now, when I transport the files to my Mac and play them in Quicktime I get a very "blur/low compression" version. Quicktime says it uses the dmb1-codec (?). Acceding to the specs it should be Mjpeg. But I cannot play the file in that codec (I can't even find it in the codeclist/plugins of quicktime). And, Yes, I've turned on the "Show legacy Codec". But still no sharp HD movie visible.
Does somebody has a answer/idea?
Fred

All I could find about the camera says that the SD video files use Motion JPEG (in an AVI container) but the HD videos (24fps) are not supported on the Mac OS.

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Message was edited by: rbhansen57

Hi,
I simply can't see the NEFs.
OS X 10.5.5
Aperture 2.1.2
Nikon D90
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It's general - no NEFs work for me.
I import directly into Aperture - do you import via the Nikon Software?
Previously I had an Olympus E400 - the RAWs worked fine in Aperture (directly imported).
My strange observations are:
With the Olympus E400 (10MB) the size of the JPG files were 6-7MB and the RAW files (called .ORF) were 21MB.
With the Nikon D90 (12.3MB) the size of the JPGs are around 6.5MB (4288x2848 pixels), but the size of the NEFs are just around 11MB (I did expect over 21MB) and the pixels are 256x170 (although the picture says 4288x2848 on the camera itself).
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ejg999 wrote:
The D90 photos appear to be very soft compared to the Canon G9 photos. This requires more sharping than the G9. I have not been able to find a way to sharpen the photos in D90
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-Allen Wicks

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Namyl wrote:
Version 5.0.0.178
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update the adobe program that needs cr 4.6+, http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/

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