Using Quick Time movies with Logic

Hello all,
I am writing some music to a quick time movie and everything is working fine...then I scroll back and forth a little to fast....and then the movie starts to skip.
Problem is I can't get Logic to "Clear" itself, even if I restart or import a different movie, then come back to this movie, it still skips, any ideas...
Scott

Scott,
You're correct, the semi-colon is used to designate drop frame. I've seen way too many timecode burns that didn't match the actual frame rate, even when the footage was provided by supposedly professional editors. The only way to check it is to run it alongside Logic's timecode counter and see how well they jibe at different points in the movie, and based on your last post, you have the correct frame rate and burn.
As far as skipping, I don't think it has anything to do with how fast you scroll. Sounds to me like your hard drive is having trouble keeping up with the data stream. Is your movie located on its own drive, or is it on your system or audio drives? Best scenario is to have the movie streaming off of a dedicated drive.
There are two other scenarios almost guaranteed to cause skipping:
1. You have that movie open in QT while you're also trying to display it in Logic.
2. You have two or more songs open in Logic that reference the same movie. This is a sure-fire way to encounter skipping.

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> I'm exporting my flash movie as a quick time movie
(setting the flash version
> in 5 on the publish settings), and everything is ok
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