[Carol Phiniotis] " can't get them to play properly in Quicktime. When I look at my original footage (the .mov files in my capture scratch) using Quicktime it plays back in a herky-jerky fashion."
The problem is QT Player. It doesn't play all frames of video in realtime, and never has. Even Streamclip (freeware does a better job).
h.264 is the standard these days for delivery via the Web.
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