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Every time I try to export from iMovie, I get a file that will only play in VLC, but not Quicktime. Exporting to 1080, High Quality, Best quality compression.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.13

Posted on Oct 27, 2019 6:50 PM

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Rich839

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Oct 28, 2019 8:36 AM in response to Bigbud

The movie should play on QT.

Try making a test movie and exporting out with different settings. On one of your test exports try using Best Quality (pro res). That would give you a .mov file rather than an Mp4 file. See if that plays in QT.

-- Rich

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Bigbud Author

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Oct 28, 2019 8:45 AM in response to Rich839

Thanks Rich. Well, today it worked! Strange, yesterday when it wasn't working I did all the things you should do, like restart etc, but no luck. Today, no problem! The only thing that has changed is a security update to 10.13.6, which I installed this morning....maybe that was the issue

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