• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @me_again Hi Andy . . . . QT + Any suggestions? . . . . Easiest route is to convert the MOV files with Handbrake, to standard h.264/AAC encoding. I have batch converted all my 'normal' MOV files. For the MOV files I create with an Alpha channel, ie
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  [Solved] That old chestnut - Quicktime
  Greetings, For years now, I've been using Quicktime Alternative 1.8.1 mainly because I occasionally use MPEG Streamclip which requires it and MS2025 works with it. During a bout of certifiable stupidity I uninstalled Qalternative. "Oops" I thought,
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @johnebaker What does MediaInfo say the encoding format used in the original MOV files is I was conitnuing an edit with the alleged Cineform movs I discussed in an earlier topic on here. I thought I'd persevere with them rather than convert
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @me_again Hi Andy What does MediaInfo say the encoding format used in the original MOV files is? Shutter Encoder was the first one I tried to convert the Alpha channel files - there appears to be no setting for the Alpha channel encoding to
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 5/28/2026

  RE: Seems to be a codec problem
  @james-o7579 Try recoding it with AVIDemux. I have posted instructions on my site here. Use the "MOV to MP4" procedure. It's a lossless process so you won't lose any quality; it just re-writes the header info. It would be worth shooting a short
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @johnebaker Thanks for the reply John. It's not so much the opening or converting of MOVs that's the annoyance, it's that Quicktime Alternative worked for both Movie Studio and MPEG Streamclip for ages but on reinstallation, because of my