mvi files appear as jpeg files

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mvi files appear as jpeg files

I am very new to macs and I am sorry if this question has already been posted(maybe someone could point me in the right direction for answer if so). I downloaded photos from my canon camera to iphoto 5. There were both jpeg images and small movies(mvi). The jpeg images are fine but the movies will only play through iphoto. When I burned them to a disc I noticed they had the file extension of jpeg and therefore will not play as videos. Is there any way I can change the files extension so they will play or is there some other solution to this problem. I also tried to play them on my windows computer and had the same problem. Can anyone help?

iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 15, 2007 5:00 PM

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Feb 15, 2007 8:44 PM in response to niftybabbles

The jpeg you burned on the disc is just the one iPhoto created to display the first frame of your movie in iPhoto. You burned the files by acquiring them through the Finder, right? It's best to stay out of the iPhoto library folder structure in Finder.

The way to acquire your photos is from within the iPhoto application. Select the photos and movies you want to burn, then do a File > Export > File Export to a folder on your desktop. This causes iPhoto to give you a copy of the correct file. When you double-click a movie in your library to play it, it opens in QuickTime (Player or Pro, whichever you have). If you export it you your desktop, it should be the MVI file which gets copied, and should open Quicktime when you open it from the Finder. Use the copies you exported to the desktop when you burn your disc. When you finish, you can Trash the desktop copies.

In Finder, to find the movie file in the iPhoto library folder, locate the jpeg version where iPhoto filed it in date-based folders. In the folder with the jpegs should be another folder named Originals. This is where your movie is stored. Again, don't mess around in there. You can seriously damage your library.

Anytime you want to locate a photo's (or movie's) file, right-Click on its thumbnail in iPhoto and choose "Show File" from the contextual menu. A Finder window will open with the file selected.

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