Need advice/help on Quicktime Pro
Hi. I'm trying to help a friend with a video project and I'm having a bunch of trouble. I've been using a variety of software, but I'm hoping that Quicktime Pro (Quicktime 7) can do what I want.
Here's the situation:
My friend has a five minute audio file that he wants to upload to YouTube. He also wants a still image to appear while the audio plays.
However, the orangey issue was less important than the softness issue. So, I decided to see if Quicktime Pro could do what I want. I own it, but I've barely used it. So, I opened the photo in Quicktime Pro and it looked just fine -- exactly as it had in Photoshop Elements. I then recorded myself using my Mac's microphone just to create an audio file to add the to the still image. I opened that audio file in Quicktime Pro, then copied and pasted the audio into the movie containing the still image. I then saved the movie.
I am running Lion, and I opened the movie in Quicktime Player (not Quicktime Pro) and it also played just fine. The photo looked right and it played the audio as well. So, I decided to then "Share" the movie to YouTube from within Quicktime Player. It didn't work -- I got an error saying "Operation Stopped The operation is not supported for this media." I got the same error when I trying to export the movie within Quicktime Player. Also, IMovie would not successfully import it.
I tried using Handbrake as well to export it into a different format, and that gave me an error too.
So, I'm not sure what is going wrong. Again, the movie plays just fine in Quicktime Pro and Quicktime Player -- the still image displays properly throughout the entire audio -- but I can't seem to export it or share it.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
Mirsky