http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:22:21 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000901.html Add MPEG StreamClip and Perian to your system to import, play and convert video in more formats. There are some video formats that Quicktime and Quicktime based applications have a hard time interpreting. For instance, certain Sony video cameras produce files in multiplexed (muxed) mpeg format. If you use Quicktime player, iMovie or Final Cut, the video will probably play... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000715.html In the last year or so, I got used to being able to export to just about any format from Quicktime Pro using Quicktime Conversions. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I installed Flip4Mac's Snow Leopard-compatible beta build and tried to export to Windows Media. The speed with which the progress bar was moving was truly awe-inspiring, but it would... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000377.html When viewing items in column view, you have the option to display a Preview column, where a preview image of your image or movie will be displayed, along with some file info. Sometimes, viewing that image will cause the Finder to crash. To fix this problem, delete the Finder Preferences, located at: /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Finder.plist Finder column view showing a preview of... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000291.html After upgrading to iTunes 7, playback of videos purchased from the iTunes store became unwatchably slow and jerky. The video would play for about 1 second, then freeze, then play, then freeze. The solution was to turn off the Internal microphone in sound control panel under "Input". Thanks to Wmatthies on the Apple discussion forums for this idea.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000159.html While experimenting with GoLive's Quicktime track editing features, I opened up a movie, saved using Quicktime's Export to MPEG-4 function. GoLive slowed to molasses speeds. Thinking I was dealing with a GoLive issue, I searched Adobe's boards for mention of slow performance while editing movies. Nothing - although there are plenty of complaints about slow performance in general, which I...