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size is large. The movies will seemingly stutter - start to play for
a few frames and then stop. Especially if they were originally
created with Apple animation. This will not happen with smaller
files. Is there a way that you can compress before you open them with
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>This is not technically a microscopy question, but I'm desperate:
>
>I use a mac. I have hundreds, if not thousands, of videos exported into .mpg
>and .mov formats over many years of imaging.
>
>Of late, I have noticed that _many_ of my older .mov files are seriously
>corrupted on the Mac. It's not the data. Archived movies are the same. It's
>the player- Quicktime. It no longer can play the old movies. However, 2-3
>years ago, before this problem was widespread, we exported several .mov
>files to .avi. These .avi movies (fortunately) play just fine. However,
>attempt to export the corrupted .mov files now yield .avi files that look
>just like the .mov files- that is to say, they look like garbage.
>
>I have attempted to revert to older versions of quicktime- all the way to
>v7.3. No luck. They're still corrupted.
>
>The corruption is not a computer issue. The same movies are corrupted on
>many others Macs with current system installations.
>
>As you might expect, this makes for less than stellar presentations, when
>half of your movies crash.
>
>Oddly, some movies exported on the same day, using the same software, will
>play, and others will not.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this problem on the Mac? Any thoughts?
>
> --Steve
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