Shortening quicktime file play length

i have a graphic file that was done in after effects by someone and delivered to me in a .mov file. The file is 14 seconds and i need to reduce it to 5 seconds. The file has motion (credit requirements for a finance company appearing across the screen during the file), when I reduce the duration in FCP it just chops off the last 9 seconds of the file so all the graphics dont show up. How can i basically compress the file so its all still there but just goes a lot quicker but still shows the entire file?
thanks
steve

Od you want to use After Effects or FCP?
In AE, Time Stretch.
In FCP, look in the index for Speed Change.
bogiesan

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i have a large .mov file on disk (in the vicinity of 3 GB) that appears to be non-functional.
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this is what happens:
(1) it is not able to calculate its size
(2) when i double-click the file, QUICKTIME PRO opens but the following error message appears: "the movie could not be opened. the file is not a movie file."
i ran the disk over to a friend's macbook pro, and experienced the same problems, so i'm thinking that it's not my powerbook, but i have a hard time accepting that the problem is with the disk since it was generated by a professional service who created three data disks for me in all, of which one of them works (it's a disk where all of the .mov files are under 1.6 gb) while the other two disks (each of which contain files that are larger than 1.6 gb) do not work.
does anyone know what could be causing this problem? any ideas of how i can resolve this?
is it possible that powerbooks and macbook pros are not powerful enough to handle this kind of file?
any help would be greatly appreciated. btw, i'm using the most recent version of QUICKTIME PRO and i've recently updated my codec library, so i should have that covered (plus, none of the error messages mention anything about missing codecs).
thanks again.

thanks for responding. that's good to know that a 3+ GB file works on your machine, but this particular problem is not yet solved.
we can now say that it may not be the file size.
when i open the disk on a macbook pro and let it sit there for 25 minutes or so, the computer is still not able to estimate the file size but it does recognize the file as a QuickTime file.
when i attempt to drag the file onto the desktop, the following COPY error message comes up: "SORRY, THE OPERATION COULD NOT BE COMPLETED BECAUSE AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURED (CODE -50)."
as i mentioned earlier, the other disk that was generated during this session works fine (however, that particular disk contained several smaller QuickTime files while the problem disc contains only ONE LARGE QuickTime file).
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Buzza - welcome to the discussions.
This sounds like an encoding issue. Pixelated fades and dissolves would indicate too low a bit rate at those points. It sounds as if you used DVDSP to encode this footage as the disc built, but the better workflow is to use Compressor (or any other MPEG encoder - BitVice, MegaPEG.X, etc) to encode the footage before bringing it in to DVDSP. That way you can concentrate on getting it looking right without leaving it to chance.
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I was using a cd as the file was so small (ranging from 6mb to 600 mb - i've tried 2 dif files and converted them to quicktime multiple ways).
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I am new to all this and get more confused by the day.
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I shot a video and accidentally recorded on one audio track only (posted in another post). I've fixed the audio in Quicktime Pro by selecting the audio track (track 1) onto track 2 and hence I've got "fake" stereo or mono audio. The QuickTime file plays perfectly on my desktop. The audio is coming through both channels, as well.
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I would like to use QuickTime player to play mp3s. when I play a file and then open another it opens another instance of Quicktime and both files play at the same time.
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Is there a terminal command to only have one instance of quicktime at a time?
Not a big Terminal user, but as far as I know, the answer would be "No!" Nor does the QT Player (QT X) have any preferences that would help here.
I would like to use QuickTime player to play mp3s. when I play a file and then open another it opens another instance of Quicktime and both files play at the same time.
With the QT Player (QT X) the specified media player, you have three basic options:
Create a reference playlist or pseudo-playlist,
Create a standalone "album" file, or
Create a an Automator script that will play any group of folders and/or individual files dropped to it.
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An automator "drop" script works like the playlist or pseudo-playlist file described above but has the advantage of allowing the user to grab and combination of files and/or folders and play them sequentially in the order (I believe) in the order they are selected. Its major disadvantage is that the user must select, drag, and drop the set of files and/or folders each time he or she wishes to play the content whereas playlists, "pseudo-playlists," and "albums" play the same files in the same order each time they are opened.
Most users prefer an alternative solution—that of using an alternative player. Most use iTunes since it also "manages" the media content. Music albums are, in and of themselves, playlists. However, users can also create smart or manual custom playlists as desired. These playlists are "reference" playlists by nature but can be exported, burned, streamed, or sync'd to mobile devices if desired by the user and thus, to my mind, offers the most available options to the average user.
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This is really off the wall and a problem for which I have searched, without success, for an answer.
Using SL and Apple Mail, when I receive an email from one other Apple user, with a .pdf file attached, the first page of the .pdf file opens in Mail and when you get to the bottom of the first page of that email, you are presented with a slider, as in the type on which you click to play a QuickTime file. Click on it and subsequent pages of the .pdf file flash by, one after the other, too quick to read.
To see what I mean, look at the screen shot I took of the bottom half of one of his incoming emails.
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I'm using the lasted updated Yosemite on a 3-year old iMac.
Back in my early iMac days (3 years ago), I imported my camcorder's AVCHD files
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Turns out they were rendered by Apple or Final Cut into MOV files using the
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Mac OS.
Now when I click on the file in the finder, instead of a movie preview, I get a
big, silent QT "Mov" icon that just sits there looking silly.
I double click it to open it up in Quicktime, and it attempts to go through this
lengthy conversion process, taking at least as long as the movie is in minutes,
then asking me if I want to save this new "converted" version.
Fortunately, I have an old version of Quicktime 7 on my Mac, and QT 7 opens it
and plays it no problem. No "conversion" necessary. No cumbersome and
space-hogging needs to create a "cloned" copy, just so the new, lame version
of Quicktime can play it.
What's up, Apple? AIC was YOUR codec that YOUR SOFTWARE chose to
transcode into. Now, your new Quicktime does NOT support this codec?
And your old version does? And why might THAT be?
Really, this is so elementary. This is not rocket science. Just like JPG images
not displaying properly in Mac Mail now. It begs the question "why" ...?
I mean, for the elementary preview abilities that always made Mac such a
friendly computer ... *uh* ... where is that?
And here we go, wasting hours of time, looking for fixes that should not
have to be "fixed"...
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Aeclay: here's a couple of ideas. And an answer to your earlier post.
Basically two options to work with here:
Store the files as native AVCHD files... OR
Convert the files to Quicktime
I keep two archives of my AVCHD recordings, partly for backup, and partly for Sony's ability to archive nicely in it's own native format on it's PC-friendly utility called "PMB". (came wtih both my NEX and ALPHA cameras). I have an old PC that I use for my complete archive; Sony's PMB utility works only on PC's and will do a good job both of archiving, providing a thumbnail database, and re-writing your choice to removable media in it's typical Sony hierarchy.
If you've only got Mac's, you can still archive your AVCHD recordings; copy them to folders named or organized to your own spec's. AVCHD is a high-quality compression format, and they'll take up way less disk space than converted Quicktime MOV files. You can open and play all AVCHD movies quite easily with VLC player.
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From that point on, you have control over how you manage the files and what intermediate or end-user format you convert them to for your own use.
I'm not clear on your other question about the files that add the word "converted" on. Of course Mac will convert to Quicktime MOV files. Not sure what codec they're using now, likely H.264. Anyway, don't bother converting. It'll take up a lot of time and waste a lot of disk space.
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Is there a way to redownload Safari or repair it...
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1) All legacy codecs tested (A-Law, IMA, QDM2, QPV, and u-Law) in an MOV file container played correctly in the QT 7 player.
2) The same files all played correctly when content was accessed by the plug-in software directly using the URL reference.
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4) An MP4 (H.264/AAC) version of you original clip played correctly in all instances.
5) Replacing your QDM2 audio track with an AAC audio track in the original MOV file allowed the file to play correctly in all instances.
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