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QuickTime 10 Video Trimming Question/Problem
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1814570" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Sorry I haven't responded sooner. Not sure why I didn't answer the first time. Maybe I was busy with something else. </p><p></p><p>I've used Quicktime Player quite a bit for the kind of editing you're doing. In fact, I was using it to shoot and edit some of the video chats as well as a few other things. I wasn't using the trim function much since I never got the hang of that. I usually just used the split clip function. I've had some of the problems you mention.</p><p></p><p>I don't have a definite answer for why you are sometimes forced to use .mov as the filetype, but I have a theory. When I've had that issue it has been with things such as captures of old videotape that has started to degrade. I wonnder if the timecode did not save properly when the file was saved and the problem gets compunded as the file is edited. Just a theory mind you. </p><p></p><p>One thing I did try when this happened and it seemed to work. I think I remeber saving the problem file as an mov which is what you are forced to do and then converting the file to mp4 later. I thought I was doing all of that in QuickTime but I don't see those settigns in the current version after giving it a quick look. I might have used something else to do the conversion.</p><p></p><p>I'm not convinced there wasn't a bug in some versions since sometimes files would not save/export no matter what I did. Even if the original file was something recorde s a screenshot of the Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1814570, member: 131855"] Sorry I haven't responded sooner. Not sure why I didn't answer the first time. Maybe I was busy with something else. I've used Quicktime Player quite a bit for the kind of editing you're doing. In fact, I was using it to shoot and edit some of the video chats as well as a few other things. I wasn't using the trim function much since I never got the hang of that. I usually just used the split clip function. I've had some of the problems you mention. I don't have a definite answer for why you are sometimes forced to use .mov as the filetype, but I have a theory. When I've had that issue it has been with things such as captures of old videotape that has started to degrade. I wonnder if the timecode did not save properly when the file was saved and the problem gets compunded as the file is edited. Just a theory mind you. One thing I did try when this happened and it seemed to work. I think I remeber saving the problem file as an mov which is what you are forced to do and then converting the file to mp4 later. I thought I was doing all of that in QuickTime but I don't see those settigns in the current version after giving it a quick look. I might have used something else to do the conversion. I'm not convinced there wasn't a bug in some versions since sometimes files would not save/export no matter what I did. Even if the original file was something recorde s a screenshot of the Mac. [/QUOTE]
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