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Error Message: Movie contains an incorrect time value

Hi there! I just downloaded a video from YouTube in the new (not very well-known) High Definition format. It's an .mp4 and as I was playing it back, I noticed some weird jittering in the video playback and I could hear the audio speed up so that the video and audio weren't in sync anymore.

I thought I could fix this by exporting as a quicktime MOV using the default settings, but that results in a video that's all black with just audio. So I thought I would save it, but then I got the error message "Movie could not be saved. Movie contains an incorrect time value."

Anyone able to help?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.5), QT Pro 7.5.5

Posted on Dec 3, 2008 9:24 PM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2008 11:46 AM

When you say save you did "Save As" and self contained, right? Try this - edit a tiny amount of the file, specficially, chop off a few seconds at either end ( set In Out with I and O then CMD X) , then save as. See if it works.

If not then select all, then copy , open a new QT player window and paste and save there. I have run into this and one of these two things solved it. CMD A , CMD C, CMD N, CMD V in that order does it all from the keyboard. Then CMD SFT S.
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Ricktoronto
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Dec 4, 2008 11:46 AM in response to dcifanatic05

When you say save you did "Save As" and self contained, right? Try this - edit a tiny amount of the file, specficially, chop off a few seconds at either end ( set In Out with I and O then CMD X) , then save as. See if it works.

If not then select all, then copy , open a new QT player window and paste and save there. I have run into this and one of these two things solved it. CMD A , CMD C, CMD N, CMD V in that order does it all from the keyboard. Then CMD SFT S.
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Error Message: Movie contains an incorrect time value

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