Return-Path: Received: from p3plsmtpa08-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ([173.201.193.105] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5306496 for ae-list@media-motion.tv; Wed, 04 Dec 2013 03:26:41 +0100 Received: from [192.168.30.9] ([173.164.190.9]) by p3plsmtpa08-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id xEV71m0130Cctbh01EV8Vg; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:29:08 -0700 Message-ID: <529E936F.2040906@belizekarate.com> Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:29:03 -0800 From: Dru Abrams User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] gremlins? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060909000408030306020207" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060909000408030306020207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's no way a 4kb file contains video...unless its one frame hyper-compressed and around 150x150 pixels. A quick search revealed that mcdb is a cache file: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/905249 Probably you're looking for a .mov file and if its not there...what can I say? Look somewhere else? :) No snark intended. Best of luck -Dru brand standard wrote: > I was attempting to play a few older movs on an old G5, 10.4.11, to > find that their QT mov extensions have mysteriously changed to > Name.mov.mcdb > The file size is shrunk to 4kb, and of course there is no way to play > them even > though the same old Quicktime is still installed. Is this a hard > drive glitch? -- Dru Abrams dabrams@belizekarate.com 415.312.1554 (Tel) ------------------------------------------------------- --------------060909000408030306020207 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's no way a 4kb file contains video...unless its one frame hyper-compressed and around 150x150 pixels.

A quick search revealed that mcdb is a cache file:  http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/905249

Probably you're looking for a .mov file and if its not there...what can I say?  Look somewhere else?  :)

No snark intended.  Best of luck
-Dru

brand standard wrote:
 I was attempting to play a few older movs on an old G5, 10.4.11, to find that their QT mov extensions have mysteriously changed to Name.mov.mcdb
The file size is shrunk to 4kb, and of course there is no way to play them even
though the same old Quicktime is still installed.  Is this a hard drive glitch?

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