Mac photo wont download .mov file

Thanks very much. That doesn't sound good. Check the file size for the videos. A " The former might be salvaged if you can find a third-party player that ignores such stored edits. Unfortunately, your comment that nothing will open them likely indicates the files either contain no data at all, are limited to a single video frame, or, as you said, are corrupted. So I'd advise against getting your hopes up here.

Question: Q:. Can't get them to Cloud More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: juliefrommemphis juliefrommemphis. Question: Q: Question: Q:. Can't get them to Cloud My. More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Unfortunately that didn't work. Already tried that.

Upon launching Quicktime, these don't appear to need converting. They just play like normal. Even if you duplicate or resave, nothing changes.

Still get the same error upon importing into the Photos app. Oct 25, PM in response to Geor-hey! Oct 25, PM. Thanks for that, however I tried the export option on previous occasion. It only gives an option to export in another resolution. No option to export to different format. As far a s I can tell from my own experiments, the "Export as MOV file, if Photos is converting the video right on import.

Then I an seeing for a short time this panel:. Question: Q: Unable to Import. Mov Files into Photos More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. At the top of the Get Info panel, you'll see the file size. If the size is only in a few KB or the duration of the video is , the source video is the cause of the not playing error.

Follow our previous tutorial on how to cut a video to repair and get rid of corrupted slices. It indicates that the player doesn't support the format or the codec. An exmaple is shown in the picture below:. Though the container format MOV is natively supported, it doesn't mean the codec the video uses is compatible.

You can imagine container as a box, which wrap up things such as video stream, audio stream, subtitles, metadata such as timestamp, device, etc.

By the way, you can install MediaInfo to check container and codec information. Preparation : To solve the playback compatibility issue, you have to install a codec pack or use VideoProc Converter to process and transcode the MOV video. Here's how to do it. You can batch import and process all the MOV video files. You will see a list of MOV container, with detailed information of which codec it will be using, and which situation to use it.

Tips: If you only want to playback the video, and doesn't require it to be MOV, you can also select a widely compatible format. For instance, MP4 H. Update your video player to the latest version if you are using an old version, which properly fixes MOV videos not playing on Mac.

When you receive the message "You need QuickTime Player version to open file name.