Questions tagged [quicktime]
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mp4 file will not play video, only audio on quicktime, fine on VLC
I have an mp4 file that will not play video, only audio, on QuickTime (10.4 on Yosemite) - and by extension does not show the correct icon in Finder not will it play properly on iOS devices.
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QuickTime File Format (Atoms & Flags)
What is the purpose of Media Atom 'flags' within the QuickTime videos, I see for the most part they are set to zero but what does this achieve?
Documentation I am reading is the following: https://...
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How can I convert large jpgs (15000 x 10840px) to video?
Whenever I try the command
ffmpeg -y -r 1 -i File01.jpg -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4
I get the failing result:
[swcaler @ 000000000347fe0] deprecated pixel format used, ...
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Is it possible to install the Quicktime backend without getting the frontend?
Let's say, hypothetically, you really dislike Quicktime player and would rather not have it on your computer. However, for a little project you decide you want to use Lightworks. Upon installation, ...
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How can I examine Quicktime file internals? [duplicate]
How can I examine a QuickTime file: is there a standard utility? Or passable third party utilities?
I'd like to be able to try to debug these problems myself before resorting to "randomly install ...
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Force subtitles to play as default
I've added different language subtitles to individual m4v movies, and they show fine when selecting the subtitle track in both Quicktime and VLC. I would like to have them so that the subtitles ...
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Convert .WMV to .MOV
A client gave me a file in Windows Media Video format. I need to edit it in Final Cut Pro X. The problem is that Final Cut Pro X can't read it. Neither can Apple Compressor. It has a Quicktime logo, ...
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disabling streams in quicktime movies with ffmpeg
In Quicktime pro you can turn off streams in movies, without deleting the stream. Is it possible to do this with a command line application like ffmpeg?
I have a bunch of video files that were ...
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optimizing / compressing video for web with Quicktime
I have a ~70mb (3 minutes long) m4v video that I need to get to a much more reasonable file size for playing on a site that will primarily be accessed via iPad.
I don't know if it matters, but the ...
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Why isn't ffmpeg used in movie production or broadcasting tool chains?
Is the assumption in the title true?
What is preventing the use of ffmpeg when producing a movie or broadcast quality material?
Are there any prominent or well known users of ffmpeg?
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Clear and informative tutorial on video file formats
...I think I will want to make a tutorial that covers video file formats, and their relationship to video codecs. There seems to always be a lot of confusion around these topics for emerging media ...
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Retaining quality while re-encoding with same codec
Just say I have a bunch of separate clips (DV stream format .dv), and I join them using Quicktime 7. If I then export them out as a new .dv file, am I losing any quality?
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Looking for compressed standard definition file format to share footage between Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Brief Background
I have a 30 minute film originally edited on Premiere Pro 1.5 in 2005/2006 that used 4:3 720x576 PAL interlaced DV AVI footage imported by firewire from a DV Cam. The entire raw ...
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Command Line Tool for Converting Image Sequence to Quicktime .mov Video
I have large number of numbered .tif files and I'd like to convert them to a .mov/Quicktime video file for further editing in Final Cur Pro X. Therefore no artefacts should be added in the process.
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How to add closed captioning to MPEG-2, QuickTime MOV, or AVI/DV for cable broadcast?
I need to add closed captioning to a short video that will be broadcast on our cable TV system. The cable system will accept MPEG-2, QuickTime MOV, or AVI/DV formats. This is in the United States, ...
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How to save multiple QuickTimes but flatten audio tracks so that youtube/vimeo will accept it
When I copy/paste multiple clips into a single clip inside quicktime, QuickTime allows me to save that "edit" as a single standalone mp4 file without having to re-encode any video. This is a very fast/...
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exporting .mov vr to multiple still frames
Ive got a quicktime VR in .mov format i need to strip the all still frames (in total there are 250) out of it and have them in as individual images, preferably pngs or jpegs.
I was looking at using ...
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Can't export .mov with premiere pro cs5.5?
I'm trying to export a mpeg format sequence to .mov (I need it to be quicktime for a ceratin reason). When I choose the format, e.g. quicktime animation or quicktime H.264, It opens an 'encoding' ...
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.Mov file corrupted after QuickTime Exporting for web
I recently attempted to export a large video file to the web through QuickTime Pro in hopes of uploading it to my web storage account and put on my website. However, when I encoded this .mov file, ...
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Can QuickTime Pro Edit mp4 files?
I just started trying out Snagit 11 on Windows. It now records screencasts in .mp4 instead of .avi. I thought this would be great but there's a problem. I typically record a screencast and then open ...
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Background color of MP4 rendering incorrectly in QuickTime
I am converting a .MOV file into .MP4, .OGV and .WEBM for web use. I have found that the background rendered by QuickTime and Safari is not white although the same MP4 has a white background when ...
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