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Guys I really need your help.
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What format are the movies in? If VLC can't play it then it must be in a really weird format.
Is there something in your Digi-Cam documentation that tells you what format the files are stored in?
Amen-Moses
Hi it works in vlc but when i drag it to imovie hd it says quicktime cannont open....
Hi the video camera is a sony hdd 30gig
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OK, so use VLC to convert it to Mp4. You may have to find the VLC manual online to figure it out (it isn't the easiest App in the world to work with) but it is doable.
The likelihood is that the movie is in Mp2 format which iMovie and Quicktime don't handle (unless you pay out some money to Apple for the extra bits required) but you should find that VLC can convert it to Mp4 for you.
One hint I can give you is that you VLC deals with "streams" so what you need to do is look for the options to "stream to a file" then figure out what settings you need (i.e resolution, PAL or NTSC etc).
You could just play around with the settings until it works but personally I'd read the manual first, especially the bit giving an intro to video formats.
Amen-Moses
btw if you go to an existing Quick time movie that does work and use the filers info on it you will see the settings for it, use the same settings in VLC and you can't go far wrong.
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