No Editing of MPG2 with Quicktime 7.6

A short time ago I switched to Leopard - OS 10.5.6 is installed.
Now I cannot edit MPG2-movies - the two triangles for a selection are missing!??

Lutz Renziehausen wrote:
A short time ago I switched to Leopard - OS 10.5.6 is installed.
Now I cannot edit MPG2-movies - the two triangles for a selection are missing!??
Lutz,
depending on how you updated your OS and Applications your QuickTime MPEG-2 Component is either gone, or you no longer have a Pro license for QuickTime after the Leopard install.
With Apple, whenever they release a new version (not point release) of QuickTime you have to buy the Pro license again for the new version.
Either your Leopard install clobbered (wrote over it with new components) the old QuickTime Pro or removed the component from /System/Library/QuickTime. Most likely depending on the situation you're going to have to buy a new QuickTime Pro license and reinstall the component or get the component again and drop it in /System/Library/QuickTime.
To digress, what's wrong with everyone else in this thread? Is everyone being intentionally obstinate, giving skewed answers, or is it a pride issue related to not knowing the answer?
AeroQ wrote:
You're probably referring to saving in Reference Movies (ie without copying > the media).
One thing is to edit and then save in QuickTime mov format (either referenced > or self-contained), and a different thing
is to save in native format: MPEG-2 in an .mpg container.
Just to clarify...
Considering Lutz has been using it everyday since OS X Panther I'm going to assume he knows the difference between a reference and self-contained .mov.
Also, QuickTime Pro is unable to innately multiplex MPEG-1/2 files into an .mpg container. The best QuickTime Pro can do is leave you with separate .M2V & audio files to be multiplexed by another program -- you would think a company that touts its systems multimedia abilities so highly would be able to do this. The only point at which QuickTime was able to produce a .mpg file was when Roxio had their Toast VCD component that would allow the creation of an MPEG-1 quality .mpg from QuickTime Pro -- not even MPEG-2 quality.

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