iMovie and MobileMe Gallery: Some movie names may not work in MobileMe Gallery

  • Last Modified: July 10, 2008
  • Article: TS1038

Symptoms

Using certain characters in your iMovie project names or movie titles may create issues with movie display or playback on your MobileMe Gallery.

In some cases, the movie displays the message "QuickTime is unable to play this movie. Please try again" as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: QuickTime is unable to play this movie. Please try again.
Figure 1

Products Affected

iMovie '08 (7.x), MobileMe Gallery, MobileMe

Resolution

Avoid using the following characters in the iMovie project name or the published title in movies that you publish to a MobileMe Gallery:

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If you do publish a movie to a MobileMe Gallery and it doesn't appear as expected, change the name in iMovie and then republish the movie.

 

Additional Information

See Final Cut Studio: Best practices when naming projects and assets for related information.

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