locking up searching for movie files
  • nwmarco
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    locking up searching for movie files

    by nwmarco » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:12 am

    Had a couple of lock ups @ an even this weekend.

    Scenario: I store all my media on an external HD, there are several 'compilation' movies that reference a number of smaller clips. QuickTime (v7.04) loses the path to some of the compilation movies and puts up a dialog "can't find data YYY in movie XXX - search or cancel" in a normal QT player document the buttons work, but when M8 was playing, neither button worked - there was no way out of the dialog box and I had to force quit.

    Ouch. Of course I was an hour plus into a custom live set and hadn't saved yet so I lost all my work. Lucky for me I had a DVD handy to cover. But silly of me to work w/out saving.

    Anyone else seen this problem?

    Cheers,
    Marco
    Cheers,
    Marco
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    by vj123 » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:47 am

    i have the same problem.
    wasn't sure how to reproduce the problem but yesterday i checked my stored settings like your 'compilation' settings with a lot of special settings of the transformer etc.
    about 10 - 20 % of my settings does NOT work and i have to quit modul8 like you said :-(
    unfortunately i cannot reproduce my stored settings because i don't remeber which movie files was stored inside :-(
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    fullscreen mode?

    by nwmarco » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:19 am

    So now that I think about it, the QT 'Search or Cancel' may not have worked due to the fact that I was in full screen mode...

    I will try this and see if that was the problem.

    cheers,
    Marco
    Cheers,
    Marco
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    Still having this problem

    by nwmarco » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:39 am

    I found out you can't exit from full screen mode when the QT 'Searching for movie files' dialog is up. Lucky for me this time, I had the file saved and had a DVD ready to go to cover up for the fact that I had to force quit Modul8.

    any suggestions on what to do or how to get around this? I still run into movies that aren't completely playable - they are compilations of smaller movies and QT 'forgets' where all the original files are.

    or even better, anyone know how to fix these files?

    Thanks,
    Marco
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    by cal6n » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:06 am

    Hey Marco

    This probably won't help you with your current problem but, for the future, you're probably better off saving your compilations as self-contained files. It may cost more as far as disk space is concerned, but I find it's better to keep things simple for quicktime.

    Cheers

    Calvin

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