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I am trying to make a video on my Mac.

I am taking a video from the internet and trying to import it into my iMovie app. But whenever I try to import it, it says that QuickTime couldn’t parse it: -2048. Any idea what this means or what I can/should do?

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Mchargers2 offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (50 minutes after post)

why wont anybody help me??????

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (3 hours, 37 minutes after post)

Read this, this should answer your question.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.j…

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Sans offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (5 hours, 17 minutes after post)

You may be trying to import a video file type that’s not supported by iMovie. I don’t think it accepts flash videos for example.

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Marconius offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (13 hours, 24 minutes after post)

What type of file is it? A .mov? A .flv?

A -2048 means that Quicktime doesn’t understand it and you’ll need to have the file in another format.

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Mchargers2 offline Verified User (2 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
US | 1 year, 6 months ago (18 hours, 3 minutes after post)

Its a flash and iMovie doesnt work with those. Im going to have to wait because Im getting the video soon on a CD and that should work… right?

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Sans offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (18 hours, 52 minutes after post)

It should. You might do a search for a video file conversion program. Cleaner is good but it isn’t free. If the CD has it as an .wmv you may have the same problem. Hopefully it will be a .mov.

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Marconius offline Verified User (2 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
San Francisco, CA, US | 1 year, 6 months ago (2 days, 3 hours after post)

Yeah, you won’t be able to edit .flv videos with iMovie. It’s not built for that. Make sure the file is a Quicktime .mov on the CD. You’ll have problems importing .avi files and .wmv files will not work either.

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