Quicktime mov modify problem

I just modified and saved the video luminosity with quicktime pro but, as I upload it on vimeo it loses all the modifies I made on the luminosity getting back dark again.
How can i avoid that?

Adjustments made using the A/V Controls window are not saved with the file.
You would need to make your adjustments and then "export" (re-compress) your file to save them.

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Importing quicktime mov but problems!

Have cut/edited a Final cut pro movie and exported to quicktime where I have basically have put my movie playing within a cool image of an apple cinema display - had no problems with this at all.
Then open iDVD 6 on my MBP and simply insert my quicktime movie into my chosen theme. I test it and it all runs great!
But when I go to burn my movie in iDVD, it turns out ok BUT without my cool 'Apple cinema display' image!
Any ideas guys?
as i said, when i test iDVD with all bits i want, it looks fine. Its just after I burn to DVD i have this strange missing image!

Hello Toggles,
where I have basically have put my movie playing within a cool image of an apple cinema display
Not sure if I understand this .... does your movie have the image as a sort of frame/overlay? That would mean your cinema display is only visible on the edges of the movie?
If so you probably ran into trouble with a phenomenon called overscan. Anything within the outer 5% of your frame is going to disappear when viewed on a TV ( e.g. Rolling Credits). Inside this 5% is known as the Action Safe Area and is produced by a TV behaviour called overscan. Anything within the outer 10% of your image area is not displayed as clearly as the part of the image within that border. The "sharp" 80% of your TV monitor is known as the TV Safe area.
To check this in iDVD, choose Advanced > Show TV Safe Area from the menu. This produces a grey overlay in your preview window. Anything within that area is safe, the rest may or may not be displayed depending on how close to the border of the frame it is.
hope this helps
mish

More on QuickTime movie autoplay problem

I am trying to understand what is going on with the QuickTime movies that feature progressive load, and autoplay... as in they are loading, but they are not autoplaying on ANY of my machines, where this used to work just fine before when the same movies were hosted on pages created with .mac homepage.
I have a bunch of movies on my website, nearly a gig worth. When I got iLife, I wanted to recreate the movie pages using iWeb. I went to my iDisk, and simply copied the folder of web movies down from the Movie directory on iDisk to a local folder. All of these movies were compressed using H.263, and featured progressive loading, play immediately, etc. This feature WORKED when the movies were on Homepage.
So I get into iWeb, make my movie pages, and load these movies into the pages via the media browser. I upload the movies using iWeb's publish button.
AND when visiting the pages, I am given a big blue Q, with no indication of what is going on until after the movie is completely loaded. No autoplay, no quickstart, nothing, despite the fact that the local QuickTime settings indicate that I want to have these things play as they download.
Even when the movies are totally loaded, one must still click the play button to get them to start.
There is something very strange happening in between taking the source movie, copying it into the iWeb project, and uploading it. The result is that fast play during loading doesn't seem to work anymore.
One user gave a procedure for fixing this, but it does not seem to remedy the situation. I have tried copying the original movie to my local drive, re-exporting it with the appropriate settings for fast start, copy it back to the proper iDisk folder, and still no autoplay during download.
Is this a bandwidth problem of .Mac? Is this an issue with the movie file being tweaked by iWeb? Any ideas?

I don't use Homepage or iWeb, or even my iDisk, like most users. Probably not as Apple intended, too.
I create a page the "old fashioned" way. Hand coding the html files.
Why have your nice movie file shoved (and scaled) to fit into a template? Why not have some more control over its playback features?
The first part of my hand coding is to use "blank" pages. Black or white backgrounds (color if you wish) and a display to take advantage of the newer video codecs.
I export using H.264 at 320X240 size to keep the file size low. By hand coding I can display these same files at 640X480 or even 800X600 in my Web pages.
Changing the html code from scale="aspect" to scale="tofit" and editing the dimensions used in the code to these new numbers is an easy fix.
Some of your current 100MB movies could be remade (from the original source files to preserve visual quality) into 10 to 20MB H.264 320X240 (or even smaller if you want to use the template pages) movies.
We all win! Faster uploads and downloads. Free up valuable iDisk space!
Another neat trick about hand coding is that you get to use the full set of features found in modern browsers and QuickTime. Many of my pages use "Presentation" settings and call the QT Player app instead of the browser plug-in. This allows you to display your movies "Full Screen".
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/B/
A full screen display of a file under 3MB's.
There are our iDisks! And they should reflect our work (not Apple's templates).

Export to Quicktime Movie Sound Problems

I have a 60 min. film with a lot of music that I exported to Quicktime. One 10 second section of one of the songs is distorted (crackly/choppy) in the .mov file (at the end of the song). In FCE, it sounds perfect. The original mp3 sounds perfect. The other 59:50 of the film sounds fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, and welcome to the Apple Discussion forums!
First thing, did you mixdown your audio before exporting from FCE?
Select the entire sequence, then do *Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown.* Try that first, it may fix things this time. Then export your video again.
Second, MP3's are not ideal for use in FCE. You really should convert audio to AIFF, 16-bit (48KHz), stereo before importing into FCE.
Another thing that could be happening, if that 10-sec is extra loud, you could be getting clipping. If so, you can keyframe around that 10-sec area and +reduce the gain+ (drag down the clip's audio level overlay line in either the Viewer or the Timeline.) Ideally, you should target -12 db in the audio meters as your max peak.

Safari Quicktime Movie rendering problem

Compare the rendering of the video here: http://ecvtalks.blogspot.com/2010/09/love-god-love-people-kyle-brooks.html
to the same video (same code!) here: http://ecvtalks.blogspot.com/
On Safari 5, these two are rendered differently, on Firefox and Chrome, they are identical (as they should be).
Any help?

http://media.elmcityvineyard.org.s3.amazonaws.com/screenshots/post.jpg
http://media.elmcityvineyard.org.s3.amazonaws.com/screenshots/homepage.jpg
The problem I'm having is that on the homepage, the video controls work, and on the post page they don't (because the video is dislocated, the controls are as well somehow… you have to click a bit up and to the left of the controls in order to operate them). Hope that makes some sense… if you're not seeing it, I guess that's good news. I'm using Safari 5.0.1
Message was edited by: mcroasmun to make the post make sense.

Problem exporting Quicktime Mov with Premiere / Media Encoder

I have a MOV-file which has been exported from Final Cut. I imported and edited it in Premiere CS 5.5 and then tried to export again to Quicktime Mov. Problem is that the output looks terrible. There is some kind of "Motion bluriness" or fuzziness in the video and looks like there is a maybe "frame rate problem".
Does anyone know what the problem is? I use "real" Quicktime from Apple website.
Here is the information of my Premiere project:
Editing mode: DV PAL
Timebase: 25,00fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 720h 576v (1,4587)
Frame rate: 25,00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.4587)
Fields: Lower Field First
Here is the information (Mediainfo) of the original MOV:
Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Format profile                   : QuickTime
Codec ID                         : qt
File size                        : 2.06 GiB
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-08-17 18:12:37
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-08-30 17:05:26
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvpp
Codec ID/Hint                    : DVCPRO
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 703 pixels
Original width                   : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:1:1
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Interlaced
Scan order                       : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 2.414
Stream size                      : 1.95 GiB (95%)
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-08-17 18:12:37
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-08-17 18:15:18
And here is the information about exported video:
Format                           : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Format profile                   : QuickTime
Codec ID                         : qt
File size                        : 2.06 GiB
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Overall bit rate                 : 30.3 Mbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-09-24 19:59:53
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-09-24 20:01:56
Writing library                  : Apple QuickTime
©TIM                             : 00:00:00:00
©TSC                             : 25
©TSZ                             : 1
Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny          : DVCPRO
Codec ID                         : dvcp
Duration                         : 9mn 42s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 24.4 Mbps
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Original display aspect ratio    : 4:3
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Standard                         : PAL
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Interlaced
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 2.357
Stream size                      : 1.95 GiB (95%)
Language                         : English
Encoded date                     : UTC 2011-09-24 19:59:53
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-09-24 20:01:56
And final information about my computer:
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
RAM
8.0 GB
OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit (Professional)
Video Card
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series

Thank you for your answers! I'm so confused about this. It seems to be problem with field orders, but original video is lower field first, my project is lower field first, sequence is lower field first and export is lower field first.
Here is the screenshot of my Sequence settings
And here is Export settings:

After 10.6.8. Quicktime movies on my website won't play. Others on iMac, ipad even PC no problem. There is no way to install other version as they are all earlier. Message says I may need to install additional download? What?

HELP! I have a MacBook Pro purchased 12/10. My website has two quicktime movies embedded. After 10.6.8. these website movies will not play on my computer.
NO ONE Else has the problem. I can play the movies from a file on my MacBook Pro purchased 12/10. Movie works on my ipad and iphone. Friends with iMac, PC etc. have no problem. ANy ideas? My website can't open them on my computer. I suspect there is lots of security stuff that is preventing the open.

http://208.64.141.26:8081/muzmark_test.mov
Nothing opens when that URL is opened in QuickTime Player.
True "Streaming" files require hint tracks be included in the file.

Problem with split screen quicktime movie to iDVD

hey folks, i've just spent two 6-hour renderings for naught and have the following problem:
QT Pro 6.5.2
iDVD 5
OS 10.3.9
I pulled together a Quicktime movie consisting of talking head interview, then split screen (two clips simultaneously), back to talking head, then split screen again, etc etc.
the first time i rendered the composite Quicktime movie to iDVD, my split screen background was a sickly lime green color. blech
so, i added a black slide in TIFF format ONLY to the split screen video portions. played around with the Layers property until my split screen video clips were in front of the black background. recut and pasted my full Quicktime movie again.
However, upon my second iDVD rendering, a funny thing ocurred. Now, when the DVD gets to a split screen portion, the VERY LAST FRAME OF THE PREVIOUS TALKING HEAD CLIP freezes, and appears in the background of my split screen clips.
What gives?
I plan to do some testing, but sure would like to shortcut this problem, it's eating away at my weekend and i need to get this project done.
thanks for any insight you can give
mike

Some ideas given in your iDVD post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=958281&tstart=0

Problem with QuickTime Movies From iMovie HD

I posted this earlier (on the second day of Leopard's Release), and did not get much feedback, and so thought I'd try again after people have had time to run Leopard.
I have some movies that I created using iMovie HD. I have the QuickTime version of the movie for use with Front Row.
On my G5 iMac running Leopard, the quality of the movies on Front Row is fine. However, in Leopard, the quality is lousy. The movies were made from still photos, using the Ken Burns effect. There are also transitions. On the web, on my iWeb site, the pictures take a while to come into focus. I sort of expect this on the web. However, I've found the same thing with the movie files using Front Row on Leopard. Again, this slowness in coming into focus does not appear when playing the movie on Front Row on Tiger on a G5 iMac.
Curious if anyone else has encountered problems/issues with QuickTime movies files from iMovie HD. And if so, what if any fixes are available.
Thanks in advance.
Russell

Hmmmm, so it works OK in Front Row but NOT in Quicktime player? Thats odd. Front Row works worse for me!
It sounds like it may be a rendering problem with Quicktime - It has to process the file in general (or parts of the file, for example, if you export 10 pics looped in Flash, it has to process the 10 image files each time it plays it through, resulting in the first 4 or 5 images to shoot out jerkily [read LAG] unlike the rest of the movie, which is smooth). If these images in your movie are large in file size or contain tons of wacky photoshopped effects, etc, that might be whats causing the problem.
I'd check everything is updated to the latest version, repair permissions on the disk in Disk Utility, and then see if anythings improved.
Hope this helps you.

Problem using BufferToImage with Quicktime mov�s.

I have modified the FrameAccess.java in an attempt to grab frames from a quicktime movie and output them as jpeg sequence. While I can use FrameAcess to grab the frames of an avi, I cannot get it to output frames from the quicktime movie.
The qicktime movie I am using plays fine within jmf (in fact it was generated by jmf) and it plays fine within the standard quicktime player.
However, when I use the bufferToImage method on a quicktime movie, it always outputs a null image (I have tried various methods).
I have provided my complete code (which has a hardcoded link to a quicktime file). Any ideas? Has anyone been able to do this? Perhaps I have a format error? Should jmf really be this confusing?
Thanks,
-Adam
import java.awt.*;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.control.TrackControl;
import javax.media.Format;
import javax.media.format.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.media.util.BufferToImage;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.imageio.*;
import javax.imageio.stream.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.imageio.event.*;
* Sample program to access individual video frames by using a "pass-thru"
* codec. The codec is inserted into the data flow path. As data pass through
* this codec, a callback is invoked for each frame of video data.
public class FrameAccess extends Frame implements ControllerListener {
     Processor p;
     Object waitSync = new Object();
     boolean stateTransitionOK = true;
     public boolean open(MediaLocator ml) {
          try {
               p = Manager.createProcessor(ml);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.err.println("Failed to create a processor from the given url: " + e);
               return false;
          p.addControllerListener(this);
          p.configure();
          if (!waitForState(p.Configured)) {
               System.err.println("Failed to configure the processor.");
               return false;
          p.setContentDescriptor(null);
          TrackControl tc[] = p.getTrackControls();
          if (tc == null) {
               System.err.println("Failed to obtain track controls from the processor.");
               return false;
          TrackControl videoTrack = null;
          for (int i = 0; i < tc.length; i++) {
               if (tc.getFormat() instanceof VideoFormat) {
                    videoTrack = tc[i];
                    break;
          if (videoTrack == null) {
               System.err.println("The input media does not contain a video track.");
               return false;
          System.err.println("Video format: " + videoTrack.getFormat());
          // Instantiate and set the frame access codec to the data flow path.
          try {
               Codec codec[] = { new PreAccessCodec(), new PostAccessCodec() };
               videoTrack.setCodecChain(codec);
          } catch (UnsupportedPlugInException e) {
               System.err.println("The process does not support effects.");
          // Realize the processor.
          p.prefetch();
          if (!waitForState(p.Prefetched)) {
               System.err.println("Failed to realize the processor.");
               return false;
          setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          Component cc;
          Component vc;
          if ((vc = p.getVisualComponent()) != null) {
               add("Center", vc);
          if ((cc = p.getControlPanelComponent()) != null) {
               add("South", cc);
          // Start the processor.
          p.start();
          setVisible(true);
          return true;
     public void addNotify() {
          super.addNotify();
          pack();
     * Block until the processor has transitioned to the given state. Return
     * false if the transition failed.
     boolean waitForState(int state) {
          synchronized (waitSync) {
               try {
                    while (p.getState() != state && stateTransitionOK)
                         waitSync.wait();
               } catch (Exception e) { }
          return stateTransitionOK;
     * Controller Listener.
     public void controllerUpdate(ControllerEvent evt) {
          if (evt instanceof ConfigureCompleteEvent
                    || evt instanceof RealizeCompleteEvent
                    || evt instanceof PrefetchCompleteEvent) {
               synchronized (waitSync) {
                    stateTransitionOK = true;
                    waitSync.notifyAll();
          } else if (evt instanceof ResourceUnavailableEvent) {
               synchronized (waitSync) {
                    stateTransitionOK = false;
                    waitSync.notifyAll();
          } else if (evt instanceof EndOfMediaEvent) {
               p.close();
               System.exit(0);
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          String s = "c:\\videoTest\\testJava.mov";
          File f= new File(s);
          MediaLocator ml=null;
          try {
          if ((ml = new MediaLocator(f.toURL())) == null) {
               System.err.println("Cannot build media locator from: " + s);
               System.exit(0);
          }} catch(Exception e) { }
          FrameAccess fa = new FrameAccess();
          if (!fa.open(ml))
               System.exit(0);
     static void prUsage() {
          System.err.println("Usage: java FrameAccess <url>");
     public class PreAccessCodec implements Codec {
          void accessFrame(Buffer frame) {
               long t = (long) (frame.getTimeStamp() / 10000000f);
               System.err.println("Pre: frame #: " + frame.getSequenceNumber()+ ", time: " + ((float) t) / 100f + ", len: "+ frame.getLength());
          protected Format supportedIns[] = new Format[] { new VideoFormat(null) };
          protected Format supportedOuts[] = new Format[] { new VideoFormat(null) };
          Format input = null, output = null;
          public String getName() { return "Pre-Access Codec"; }
          public void open() { }
          public void close() {}
          public void reset() {}
          public Format[] getSupportedInputFormats() { return supportedIns; }
          public Format[] getSupportedOutputFormats(Format in) {
               if (in == null)
                    return supportedOuts;
               else {
                    // If an input format is given, we use that input format
                    // as the output since we are not modifying the bit stream
                    // at all.
                    Format outs[] = new Format[1];
                    outs[0] = in;
                    return outs;
          public Format setInputFormat(Format format) {
               input = format;
               return input;
          public Format setOutputFormat(Format format) {
               output = format;
               return output;
          public int process(Buffer in, Buffer out) {
               // This is the "Callback" to access individual frames.
               accessFrame(in);
               // Swap the data between the input & output.
               Object data = in.getData();
               in.setData(out.getData());
               out.setData(data);
               // Copy the input attributes to the output
               out.setFormat(in.getFormat());
               out.setLength(in.getLength());
               out.setOffset(in.getOffset());
               return BUFFER_PROCESSED_OK;
          public Object[] getControls() {
               return new Object[0];
          public Object getControl(String type) {
               return null;
     public class PostAccessCodec extends PreAccessCodec {
          public PostAccessCodec() {
               // this is my guess for the video format of a quicktime? Any ideas?
               VideoFormat myFormat= new VideoFormat(VideoFormat.JPEG, new Dimension(800,
                         600), Format.NOT_SPECIFIED, Format.byteArray,
                         (float) 30);
               supportedIns = new Format[] { myFormat };
               // this will load in an avi fine... but I commented it out
               //supportedIns = new Format[] { new RGBFormat() }; /
          void accessFrame(Buffer frame) {
          if (true) {
               System.out.println(frame.getFormat());
               BufferToImage stopBuffer = new BufferToImage((VideoFormat) frame.getFormat());
               Image stopImage = stopBuffer.createImage(frame);
               if (stopImage==null) System.out.println("null image");
               try {
                    BufferedImage outImage = new BufferedImage(800, 600, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                    Graphics og = outImage.getGraphics();
                    og.drawImage(stopImage, 0, 0, 800, 600, null);
                    //prepareImage(outImage,rheight,rheight, null);
                    Iterator writers = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName("jpg");
                    ImageWriter writer = (ImageWriter) writers.next();
                    //Once an ImageWriter has been obtained, its destination must be set to an ImageOutputStream:
                    File f = new File("newimage" + frame.getSequenceNumber() + ".jpg");
                    ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(f);
                    writer.setOutput(ios);
                    //Add writer listener to prevent the program from becoming out of memory
               writer.addIIOWriteProgressListener(
                         new IIOWriteProgressListener(){
                         public void imageStarted(ImageWriter source, int imageIndex) {}
                         public void imageProgress(ImageWriter source, float percentageDone) {}
                         public void imageComplete(ImageWriter source){
                         source.dispose();
                         public void thumbnailStarted(ImageWriter source, int imageIndex, int thumbnailIndex) {}
                         public void thumbnailProgress(ImageWriter source, float percentageDone) {}
                         public void thumbnailComplete(ImageWriter source) {}
                         public void writeAborted(ImageWriter source) {}
                    //Finally, the image may be written to the output stream:
                    //BufferedImage bi;
                    //writer.write(imagebi);
                    writer.write(outImage);
                    ios.close();
               } catch (IOException e) {
                    System.out.println("Error :" + e);
          //alreadyPrnt = true;
          long t = (long) (frame.getTimeStamp() / 10000000f);
          System.err.println("Post: frame #: " + frame.getSequenceNumber() + ", time: " + ((float) t) / 100f + ", len: " + frame.getLength());
          public String getName() {
               return "Post-Access Codec";

Andyble,
Thanks for the suggestion. When I use your line, my Image is no longer null (and the resulting BufferedImage is not null either), but it outputs a "black" in the jpeg file. Any other ideas? What did you mean by a -1 F for the frame rate? Did you mean changing the format to a negative 1 frame rate? I tried that, but it did not seem to have any change. Can you let me know if I misunderstood that. Thanks.
-Adam

Missing Render Files / Problem Exporting Quicktime Movie

Everything was going great on my 21 minute project.
I had exported it to iDVD via a Quicktime movie and it looked great in widescreen format. It worked perfectly.
Now, for whatever reason, when I load my project, I get a message saying the Render Files are missing. I am unable to locate them anywhere. I had them stored along with my project on an external firewire 400 drive.
So I press "continue" without finding the missing files.
Now when I export my movie, it appears 4:3 with gray vertical bars on the side!
When I view the project on the canvas, it looks perfect as 16:9. Everything looks normal in FCE.
Did a render file get corrupted or something? Is there a way to delete all the "old" render files and tell Final Cut Express to re-render my entire new project? Would that solve my problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I did what you said and the "exported" file says:
Kind: Final Cut Express Movie File
Under More Info it says:
720x480 Integer (Little Indian) Timecode
Total Bit Rate: 30,313
Why am I trying to export?
Before I ran into trouble, I would export my FCE project using the Export Quicktime Movie command.
I then used iDVD (set to 16:9) to burn to DVD.
It worked perfectly before.
But now, all of a sudden, the same project always shows up at 4:3, whether played in Quicktime or when burned to DVD using iDVD set to 16:9.
The version of FCE is 4.0 and the version of Quicktime is 7.4.5
Thank you again for trying to help me!

Soundbooth CS4 Problem with Quicktime MOV files

I know that Soundbooth CS4 should support Quicktime MOV files but I just get a placeholder image and the video doesn't play. What should I do? I don't know if it is an issue with Quicktime or with Soundbooth.
Thanks,
Bruce

It's probably an incompatible codec in the QT. If the audio isn't AC3 and on a separate track from the video this can happen. There are still a few applications out there that will write the audio into the video track, and QT will still play it that way.
Are you attempting to edit video with Soundbooth?
If you are it's not a good idea.
You really should be using Premiere or Efter Effects to edit video, and leave Soundbooth for audio work.
If you have QT Pro, try extracting the audio from the MOV and save THAT as an MOV of just the audio. SB should have no problem opening that/

Help Please ::: Quicktime .mov into iDVD 5 playback or encode problem issue

Originally Imageready files burned into Quicktime. Importing Quicktime .mov into iDVD results in project which looked great in preview, but after burning images were elongated, flattened. I am stumped, especially given preview results would indicate no such problems but unsure where to analyze on the DVD burn end to check. Any tips on what/where to check? Have tried re-importing original ImageReady (Photoshop) files into new Quicktime .mov (original project was done on OS 9 fyi). But no change in results.. any help greatly appreciated.
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thank you for the feedback. I wasn't privy to the process that converted these files originally but suspected the theory on compression/codec initially used.. may re-convert. Also will try Disk Imaging... seems that this is not an uncommon problem in the iDVD 5 world...
regards, Senor Peaches
Originally Imageready files burned into Quicktime.
Importing Quicktime .mov into iDVD results in project
which looked great in preview, but after burning
images were elongated, flattened. I am stumped,
especially given preview results would indicate no
such problems but unsure where to analyze on the DVD
burn end to check. Any tips on what/where to check?
Have tried re-importing original ImageReady
(Photoshop) files into new Quicktime .mov (original
project was done on OS 9 fyi). But no change in
results.. any help greatly appreciated.
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Pro Tools files imported to FCP X causing QuickTime movie problem

Well 2 days later and hours on the phone with Apple tech support Senior Advisors, and problem still not solved. HELP.
Everything works fine in FCP X, but when I create the QuickTime movie, it is way out of sync (by many seconds).
We have isolated the problem to audio files that I am exporting to Pro Tools, processing, and then importing back into FCP X. I can create a QuickTime movie with the original video/audio and it is fine.
Information
The original video came from Canon HF M40 camcorder: AVCHD (using MPEG4-AVC / H.264 compression codec), MTS format. Audio is 48kHz, 24 bits.
I used ClipWrap to rewrap the video into ProRes 422 and decompress the audio and save as LPCM.
I simply provide this FYI. As I said earlier, the original video works fine and the resulting QuickTime movie works fine. So the original files imported into the FCP project are not the problem.
The creation of the problem audio occurs as follows:
- Detach the original audio from the original video, and export
- Import this audio into a 48.0 kHz/16-bit Pro Tools HD session and EQ/limit the audio
- Import the resulting audio into FCP X (exact same length file, audio waveforms aligned with the original audio).
This audio works fine in FCP. It is in sync with the video, everything looks great.
I ran Pro Tools at 16-bits because a senior advisor told me FCP runs at 16-bits but does not convert imported stand-alone audio (as opposed to combined video/audio) to 16-bits; thus the Pro Tools session had to be at 16-bits. I changed from 24-bits to 16-bits, and this didn't solve the problem. (FYI, when Pro Tools imports the original audio exported from FCP, it says the audio is 24-bits, not 16-bits).
What is the problem?
The basic question is why does this audio cause QuickTime a problem?
Something is going on in the conversion to the QT movie. In FCP X, I don't have a way to play with the conversion variables except to set "Video and Audio" and "Use current settings" (which is ProRes 422).
The only difference I see between the original audio and the Pro Tools audio is that the original audio is stereo and Pro Tools works with dual mono files (L & R). The mono files work fine in FCP and I can't imagine why QT would have a problem with these, but I haven't tried converting the files to stereo before importing into FCP.
I should also mention that I selected the stabilization and roll correction algorithms in FCP. I assume these don't create problems in QT. I mention this because I didn't use them when I tested making a QT movie with the original video/audio files.
FCP and Pro Tools are used together all the time to do exactly what I am doing......improve the sound of the original audio. They are the premier video and audio professional programs. Of course, the final product is often not a QuickTime movie, but many times it is a QT movie.
What the heck is going on???
HELP.

(1) It is immediately out of sync. It even appears to be speeded up to me initially, but this is subjective. But it is clearly out of sync throughout, not a gradual drift.
(2) When I create the audio files in the Pro Tools session, the files are automatically stored in the audio folder of the Pro Tools session. So I don't actually have to go through an export process. I just close the Pro Tools session, then open FCP X and import the audio from the Pro Tools folder.
I'm not sure what additional specifications you seek, other than:
- wav files
- sample rate = 48 kHz
- Bit rate = 16-bits (and earlier I used 24-bits)
- Files are dual mono, rather than stereo (name_01.L.wav, name_01.R.wav). As I mentioned above, I have not yet tried converting these to stereo before importing into FCP, to see if dual mono causes an issue with QT. It does not cause a problem in FCP. I will try this today if we don't solve the problem.
(3) I can upload a portion of the audio to a server and send you a link to the file so you can download it. Is there a way to private message on the forum so I can get an email address to send you the link?
(4) The original video came from Canon HF M40 camcorder: AVCHD (using MPEG4-AVC / H.264 compression codec), MTS format. Audio is 48 kHz, 24 bits.
I used ClipWrap to rewrap the video into ProRes 422 and decompress the audio and save as LPCM.
The FCP Project was set up at:
- Starting time code - 01.00.00.00
- Format - 1080p
- Resolution - 1920 x 1080
- Frame rate - 29.97p
- Audio channels - stereo
- Sample rate - 48 kHz
- Rendering format - Apple ProRes 422

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