[QLab] Movie won't finish

[Christopher Ashworth]

On May 30, 2007, at 9:44 AM, luckydave wrote:

> I have a 4 sec, 15 frame animation that plays fine in Quick Time. I
> made it in AfterEffects, and have tried several different compression
> codecs. Almost everything else I'm using in this show was created the
> same way, and most other clips don't give me any trouble at all. This
> one stops at 4 seconds, and leaves the last 15 frames unplayed.  
> WTF?!?!
> I've tried everything in my toolbox, from modifying it in MPEG
> Streamclip or FCP Compressor after output, to recreating it over and
> over again.

QuickTime doesn't always play MPEG files correctly.  Dropping frames  
(sometimes lots of frames) at the end of the file is apparently a  
fairly common behavior for MPEG files.  Try a different format and  
see if that helps....