QuickTime vs Shake

Hello.
Yesterday we made the upgrade in our system to version 10.5.7. Onlyone 1 of our 6 computers had a problem importing quicktime to the shake.
It's only with the shake, I tested in the final cut, in motion application and it's fine.
Am I missing something that I don't know?
Thanks

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
there's a seperate Shake Forum http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1179 where the Shake-knowers hang out.
Might be better to ask your question there.
Regards
Stefan

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Hello.
Yesterday we made the upgrade in our system to version 10.5.7. Onlyone 1 of our 6 computers had a problem importing quicktime to the shake. It send me an error like this: "Quick Time error (-54)" and only appears black video. I check the codecs in shake for DVCPRO HD 1080i 50 and it's there, so i don't understand what's wrong.
It's only with the shake, I tested in the final cut, in motion application and it's fine.
Am I missing something that I don't know?
Thanks

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
there's a seperate Shake Forum http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1179 where the Shake-knowers hang out.
Might be better to ask your question there.
Regards
Stefan

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Command: shake
Path: /Applications/Shake/shake.app/Contents/MacOS/shake
Parent: WindowServer [57]
Rosetta: Yes
Version: 4.00 (4.00)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: ShakeProject
Source Version: 3150000
PID: 1172
Thread: Unknown
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
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Thread 0:
0 com.apple.shake 0xb80a5453 0xb8000000 + 676947
1 com.apple.shake 0xb809f925 0xb8000000 + 653605
2 com.apple.shake 0xb80bd24e 0xb8000000 + 774734
3 com.apple.shake 0xb811e558 spinlockwrapper + 3852
Thread 1:
0 com.apple.shake 0xb823369b strchr + 72
1 com.apple.shake 0xb81cef17 pthreadcondwait + 3114
2 com.apple.shake 0xb816831a catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 318
3 com.apple.shake 0xb8167856 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 177220
4 com.apple.shake 0xb816774d CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 176955
5 com.apple.shake 0xb8168418 catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 572
6 com.apple.shake 0xb820480c pthread_create + 1124
Thread 2:
0 com.apple.shake 0xb8134fac spinlockwrapper + 96608
1 com.apple.shake 0xb814ed28 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 76054
2 com.apple.shake 0xb80c7b3a 0xb8000000 + 817978
Thread 3:
0 com.apple.shake 0xb813516f spinlockwrapper + 97059
1 com.apple.shake 0xb8160750 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 148286
2 com.apple.shake 0xb81632bd CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 159403
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0 com.apple.shake 0xb813501e spinlockwrapper + 96722
1 com.apple.shake 0xb814e1b4 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 73122
2 com.apple.shake 0xb80a6073 0xb8000000 + 680051
3 com.apple.shake 0xb809f925 0xb8000000 + 653605
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5 com.apple.shake 0xb811e558 spinlockwrapper + 3852
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0 com.apple.shake 0xb813501e spinlockwrapper + 96722
1 com.apple.shake 0xb814e1b4 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 73122
2 com.apple.shake 0xb80a6073 0xb8000000 + 680051
3 com.apple.shake 0xb809f925 0xb8000000 + 653605
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WRKS wrote:
The get info function didn't give me a version number on this mac.
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(which I think H.264 is Quick Time,)
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Think of Quicktime as the cup, and the video inside as the liquid. The cup can hold milk, juice, soda, water, etc., just like the Quicktime file can hold Uncompressed video, DV video, or H.264 video. It's all the same cup, but with different things inside. But you have to remember that the cup and the liquid are two different things, because as there are different kinds of liquid (video formats), there are also different kinds of cups (file formats). For example, AVI, MKV and MXF are all different kinds of cups (file formats), just like Quicktime, and any one of them can hold many different kinds of liquids (video formats).
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