My mac not accessing an mpeg 1 movie file

bshonkwiler@min · bshonkwiler@min #1 (**permalink**)

01-18-2008, 12:31 AM

Someone took some video footage with a HD Sony video camera. I wanted to edit the footage on my mac. He burned the file on a DVD for me on his PC so I could. My mac says it is an mpeg-1 movie. When I try to open it directly, quicktime says it's not a movie and refuses to open it. VLC will play it however. If I open iMovie and ask it to import the file, it complains that quicktime can not parse it!

So at this point I'm scratching my head and wondering how can I access and edit this file? Any ideas?

thanks,
bshonk

xstep · xstep #2 (**permalink**)

01-18-2008, 01:45 AM

Look at ffmpegX, VLC, Streamclip, maybe iSquint. You want to convert the file, preferable to DV format, so that iMovie can read it.

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bshonkwiler@min #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 18, 2008 Location: Atlanta Georgia Posts: 9 Mac Specs: 2.66 GHz Intel Dual Core Xeon	01-18-2008, 12:31 AM Someone took some video footage with a HD Sony video camera. I wanted to edit the footage on my mac. He burned the file on a DVD for me on his PC so I could. My mac says it is an mpeg-1 movie. When I try to open it directly, quicktime says it's not a movie and refuses to open it. VLC will play it however. If I open iMovie and ask it to import the file, it complains that quicktime can not parse it! So at this point I'm scratching my head and wondering how can I access and edit this file? Any ideas? thanks, bshonk
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xstep #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 25, 2005 Location: On the road Posts: 3,231 Mac Specs: 2011 MBP, i7, 16GB RAM, MBP 2.16Ghz Core Duo, 2GB ram, Dual 867Mhz MDD, 1.75GB ram, ATI 9800 Pro vid	01-18-2008, 01:45 AM Look at ffmpegX, VLC, Streamclip, maybe iSquint. You want to convert the file, preferable to DV format, so that iMovie can read it.
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