Quicktime Movie Import

Hi All,
I Had someone make me a lower 3rd graphic for a project and he delivered it as a Quicktime movie (.mov). I see the graphic fine in the view but when I drop it in the Timeline I'm just getting black. I have tried different Video Tracks but nothing. Also, when I open the file in the Timeline it's only black no graphic. Any ideas?
Thanks

Animation is a codec.
I don't mean animated.
The animation QT codec support an alpha channel.

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I think this is a super simple question, How do I import a
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> Hi,
>
> I think this is a super simple question, How do I import
a quicktime movie
> onto my page? I presume you go to insert>media>?
not to sure what comes
> next
> though? Is it shockwave,applet,active x or plugin?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beth H
>

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.. that is a very tricky file..
ctrl-click on your link, choose from context-menu 'download file'.. got a 5.8MB scene4.swf file..
opened that with QTpro + perian.org plug-in.. plays..
'Export/dv' generates an audio-less file ...
2nd try:
using VisualHub, set output to dv.. boom!.. aborts.
3rd try:
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but, now I have an audio-less dv + and a video-less h264.. so, I simply copy/add trimmed the audio from h264 to the dv file in QTpro.. tadaahhh , done.
note:
I mostly doubt, that all pics in this 'show' are free for use, and not © protected..
for sure, the music has some © ...
and: as the credits tell you, the whole swf claims a © ..
be nice to copy rights ..
//no politics allowed on this board, but OMG!.. when we Germans produced such movies, that is >60y ago .. //

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