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Luis Ortega

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May 10, 2007
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I have several old edited QuickTime movie projects that I did about 15 years ago that worked fine on my old Mac Pro (2008) and I saved them on hard disks. Now when I try to view them on my new 2020 iMac (intel cpu), they aren't recognised when I try to preview them (just hitting the space bar) or when I load them into FCP or Adobe Premiere Pro or even iMovie to convert them into a newer format.
I tried loading them in VLC and that played ok but when I tried to convert them it turned them into an m4v file but it had no audio.
I would like to be able to convert them into regular mov files that open and play easily just in preview so I can give them to friends who aren't very tech savvy.
Can anyone please advise on how I can convert my older QuickTime movie files into something easily played on a Mac now?
Thanks for any advice.
 
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