Movies 2 Mac

[Brodie X]

Got Missing Sync and it works flawlessly to get pictures, music and flash on my tg50 from my Powermac running 10.2.4. However, movies have been a real pain. Anyone else had a problem?

[david.silva]

What specifically are you having a problem with? Moving them to your Mac or viewing them? Moving them is as simple as mounting the MS via MS Import and copying thru the Finder. Viewing movies can be accomplished by moving the movie file to your Mac (via the method describde above) and changing the extension to .MOV. You can view them just fine then. Hope this helped.

[parmesian]

Originally posted by david.silva
What specifically are you having a problem with? Moving them to your Mac or viewing them? Moving them is as simple as mounting the MS via MS Import and copying thru the Finder. Viewing movies can be accomplished by moving the movie file to your Mac (via the method describde above) and changing the extension to .MOV. You can view them just fine then. Hope this helped. or you could just change the "open with" attribution of ".mqv" files to quicktime and it will open without having to change the extension.:D

[nraizman]

I have been trying to get Clie NX70V movies to play on my PowerbookG4 running OS 9.2.2, and I tried changing the extensions to .MOV and .MQV and neither quicktime nor imovie would play them. Any suggestions?

Much thanks!
Noah

[parmesian]

i believe (could be wrong) that you need the latest version of quicktime to make .mov or .mqv work on the mac. i am not sure if the latest version is available for 9.2.2.

make sure you have the latest version. or better yet, upgrade to 10.2.5. all my old 9.x version software runs great under classic and the stability of 10.2.x is amazing. i haven't rebooted my machine (except after software installations) since september 2002.:D

[scanman]

Hey that whale video is pretty cool...thanks. I'm going to slide it over to my TG50 as the first video to try out...

[ckshaf012]

I think what the original message was referring to was how to get movies to play on the clie. I too am trying to figure this out. How are you converting movies into the .mqv format? As we know Sony has left Mac users behind and does not provide a conversion tool for this. I know that there are some 3rd party solutions for this like Kinoma but there has to be another free solution.

Any help you can provide is as always appreciated.

[icruise]

You can use the included Image Convertor program for windows in Virtual PC. You can also use the quicktime Video CD export option that is installed when you have Toast installed on your system to make Clie compatible MPEG videos, but they are considerably larger than those created by Image Convertor. I think you can probably use some of the freeware MPEG1 convertors as well, but again, the size is a problem for anything very long.

[tylonius]

For me, the problem isn't file format (yet). I'm having trouble loading the sample movies that came on the CD. Where do I put them?

I will say that movies I record with my Sony F707 camera play right off the stick, but moving something from my HD, or the Clie CD, hasn't met with any success, even if I put them in the same dir that the camera creatted movies reside in.

ty

[icruise]

You are supposed to convert the sample movies to view them (they are really samples for the Image Converter program more than they are samples for the Clie). Since I believe they are mpegs, you can probably rename them and view them if you put them in the right directory. "/DCIM/101MSDCF/" works for me, but the files have to be named MOV*****.MPG where the asterisks are any 5 numbers. I find that regular MPEG1 files don't play as well as Image Converter converted files, though.

[tylonius]

Aah, the naming seems to be the real trick. It has to be named exactly as icruise describes and is case sensitive to boot.

I did find that I didn't need to convert the movies on the CD, only rename them. I'm still not having much success converting MOVs to MPEGs and having Clie read them - it displays them as unknown format - but I'll eventually crack that nut.