All my movie clips now have .jpg extensions: HELP!!

Hello.there

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 27, 2008

• #1

Could a kind soul out there tell me why, when I looked in Finder today, all my little movie clips (ie the usual rubbish filmed on a cheap camera) had .jpg extensions? 😕 So, when I click them they open up as pictures (ie as one frame from the video), but no longer play as videos.

What on earth have I done? 😱

Thanks.

 

brn2ski00

macrumors 68020

• Mar 27, 2008

• #2

Just change them to .avi -- the typical Digital Camera format.

 

Hello.there

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 27, 2008

• #3

brn2ski00 said:

Just change them to .avi -- the typical Digital Camera format.

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Okay, but there are 100s of them - do I have to go through them one by one? And have you any idea what daft thing I did to make this happen?

Thanks.

 

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Blubbert

macrumors 6502

• Mar 27, 2008

• #4

To make it easier for you to change the extensions of all your movies, just download Name Mangler. It has an option within that allows you to easily change extensions on any number of files, and it does batch processing.

 

killmoms

macrumors 68040

• Mar 27, 2008

• #5

I highly doubt that's what happened. If they changed to JPGs, they wouldn't open like they were pictures if they were actually movie files. Preview would complain that they weren't actually JPGs (basically say they were corrupt). Are you sure you're looking at the proper files and not some thumbnails generated from the first frame or something?

 

Hello.there

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Mar 27, 2008

• #6

killmoms said:

Are you sure you're looking at the proper files and not some thumbnails generated from the first frame or something?

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Yes, I was looking at thumbnails.

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Thank you.

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