MAC OS X 10.5.8 -Uploading videos HELP!

[deniserc]

Just bought a new digital video camera and took some photos and shot a few minutes and uploaded to my Mac. The photos went into Iphoto (just like with my regular digital camera) and I went looking for the video and found it in ALL MOVIES where my son has some videos stored. I can watch those. When I clicked on any of mine, nothing...just a black screen. I emailed my son (who's in Alaska now and doesn't have time to be on line to help me right now) and he said I can't open them with Quicktime and to use some other program.
I am so DUH when it comes to this stuff. I just want to be able to save videos I take and share them but I can't even see them. Can someone give me the steps or a link to a webpage with the steps involved in uploading and saving and sharing videos? Thanks for any help!!

 

[Walrus666]

Hello, I'm not sure what type of movie files that you're trying to open but you might want to try to open them with VLC Player . VLC Player will pretty much play anything you throw at it.

 

[deniserc]

Thanks but I figured out the problem
My husband had the camera set on AVI when we were filming and it was supposed to be set on MOV. Now when I load the videos we take, it can be seen using Quicktime. YAY!

 

[Walrus666]

Good to hear. Just in case you have some AVI's that you want to view with Quicktime, here's a plugin called Perian that will allow you to do so.