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My mac not accessing an mpeg 1 movie file

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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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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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