QuickTime Clips Won't Play

I have some animated GIFs that I want to play in my movie. I saved them as QuickTime files and then imported the QuickTime movies into my movie and then dropped them into the movie.
However, when I try to preview the movie, they don't play. Instead, I just get a black screen for the length of the clip.
I know all the frames are there because I can see then when I slide the mouse left and right over the clip. However, I can't get the clips to play.

thepainguy wrote:
.. do you know if Final Cut Express supports this? That may be another reason for me to upgrade.
never tried but mostly doubt.. iMovie and FCE are meant for editing camcorder material... and anim.gifs never fullfill the standards of 'video' (PAL/NTSC/HiDEf) ..
but..
FCE allows to 'zoom' clips ... you should convert your anim.gif into something 'video-ish', e.g. a dv-stream, import to FCE, and 'shrink' the clip to a size, where it looks better in a video.. for sure, it dosn't 'fill' fullscreen, you'll get borders around it..

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