[MacDV] Re: New Quicktime movie with I-Movie 4

[Steven Rogers]

On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> 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  . . .

Right - and older versions of Quicktime (prior to the time iMovie 3 
came out) won't open that multimedia link movie. You can export it to a 
self contained movie, and then older versions of Quicktime will open it.

SR