[MacDV] New Quicktime movie with I-Movie 4

[Mark M. Florida]

On Jan 18, 2004, at 6:49 PM, barry ellman wrote:

> Just got the new I-movie 4 loaded on my I-book, and noticed that it 
> automatically created a .mov version of the movie on saving.
>
> However, this .mov file cannot be opened with older versions of 
> quicktime.

If you're trying to move the file to another computer for playback, it 
won't work -- it's what's called a "referencing movie" and it points to 
the actual footage that's in your iMovie project -- if you move the 
file to another computer, it loses the referenced files.  You should be 
able to open it up on the machine that created it (which you should 
have no problems with QuickTime version since it's the same machine), 
and export it from QuickTime Player (Pro) to a self-contained movie -- 
then you can move it from machine to machine, and depending on the 
settings you choose when exporting you can maintain compatibility with 
any version of QuickTime (quality will suffer when going for 
compatibility with anything older than 4.x).

Hope that helps.

- Mark