Incorrect frame displayed for MOV movie file

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Bit difficult to explain this one, but I am trying to follow the tutorials on the Track, Match, Blend DVD and I am finding out that what is displayed in the movie clip editor for a particular frame on the time line differs after initially loading the file and tracking a single point.

From a clean start of Blender, I can load a mov file, set the end frame, add a tracking point and track successfully, but if I go back to the first frame 1 to add a second point what was on the first frame is no longer displayed… instead I am seeing what was on the LAST frame … and equally what is displayed for frame 2 looks like what was on frame 1 … essentially the video has shifted and ‘wrapped’ so the last frame is the first and all other frames are offset. Result is tracking is impossible…

Any ideas? Should I be creating an image sequence from the MOV’s and tracking that?

I have tried Blender 2.62 official - but was working with 2.63 RC1.

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Hi kkimber and welcome to the forum.
In the first video sebastianK says there are some problems with .mov files and blender (If you don´t have an Apple computer)
and he recommends image sequences in most cases.
First pointtracking video.
Cheers, mib.

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Well guess I need to try converting image sequences and see how that goes…

From memory (I might need to watch the first video again) I thought that MOV’s were OK with later versions of blender - one reason why I switched to the 2.63 RC1 when first playing with the tracking tutorials …

Seems a shame I need to convert all of the training materials to get things working !!