Unsupported Video Format

For what it's worth, I too have this problem. I upgraded Aperture the same time as I did Lion, so I'm not sure it's the OS. System still plays them back in QuickTime, but it seems like 3.1.3 broke iPhone 4 video.

Sorry no solution, just piling on.

Having similar iPhone video issues here... running Aperture 3.1.3 but haven't gone over to Lion just yet. It will import some iPhone (3gs) videos but not others and the playback quality of the ones that is has imported is questionable... seems to be no pattern to the ones it imports and the ones it doesn't - so its not just a Lion issue.

As above, sorry no solution - just adding weight to the discussion...

Hmmm, that sounds a little different. I have no problem importing them. I just see a blank preview indicating Unsupport Video Format.

Same here: iPhone-Video, imported to Aperture 3.1.3, just a black window shown with "unsupported video format". However, right-click and play with Quicktime works, and I am also able to locate them in the Aperture library. Poor performance from Apple to have to pieces of software/hardware (iPhone & Aperture) not working properly together.

I have the same issue as everyone else in this thread. I can watch them by right-clicking on the video and choose to 'open with QuickTime player' but it would be nice if it functioned the same way it does in iPhoto.

Hope Apple resolves this soon.

I'm just piling-on here too.

Lion, Aperture 3.1.3 (MAS version), iPhone 4, (iOS 5 b7), Canon T3i.

I can deal with having to open the video in QuickTime, but what REALLY bugs me is that if I'm viewing my photos in Aperture in sort of a slide show manner, it brings me to a stand-still trying to preview the unsupported video.

Same problem here: Lion 10.7.2, Aperture 3.2, iPhone 3GS on iOS5.

Videos open and play fine in Quicktime. Hopefully there'll be a fix upcoming.

I wonder if the iPhone 4S's 1080p video will be unrecognized too. AT&T didn't ship our office phones until Friday, so I should find out Monday.

Fixed at my end by uninstalling 3ivx and reimporting my videos, which took my MBP a bit of thinking time!

Am guessing other third party codec packs that haven't been updated since Lion came out might also have problems.

Perian still works fine.

Yep I also fixed the problem by uninstalling 3ivx.

See: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202532?answerId=15714152022#15714152022

Basically remove the 3ivx component from /Library/Quicktime then restart the machine. Recently imported movies from my iPhone had to be reimported to work, but after these steps the movies are working normally again!

The annoying part was that I needed to delete the videos and re-import into Aperture to get them to play.

Everything seems to work OK now.

Had a similar problem, but it wasn't 3ivx - it was because the original file was imported from a shared directory with ACL rules into a shared library. If I did the same thing from my own directory into a personal library, everything worked fine.

I created a new partition, went to Getl Info and selecled Ignore Permissions On This Drive, moved the sahred library and movies there, and it worked fine.

Well - Flip4Mac WMV was the culprit on my iMac - it was broken (trying to open it in the pref. -> crash)

I did a fresh install and iPhone movies imported after that were fine 🙂 !

It did not however fix the ones already in the database.

I suppose they need to be re-imported ... maybe someone can come up with a solution for that - a script maybe?

My issue seems similar but slightly different in that I imported photos and video taken with a new (this Christmas) iPod Touch. I am running OS 10.7.5 (so Lion , not ML) and Aperture 3.4.3. The first time I imported some of the pictures had a vertical line in the middle and part of the image was clear and the other part less so and each half was slightly misaligned. Some of the video came through and some had the black screen and an exclamation mark in the middle (unsupported video format). So, I made a new folder, re-imported and the pictures are all fine but now none of the video came through and each video file has the exclamation mark (unsupported video format). Any ideas??