• Avid Media Composer

  Avid won’t import .mov

  Posted by Daniel Blaalid on September 4, 2013 at 2:23 pm

  Hey

  The .mov files have the AVdn codec, but when I’m trying to import them to Avid I get this error message: “Invalid file name”. If I try to drag them directly into the bin, nothing happens.

  Any clues? Thanks.

  Kevin P mcauliffe replied 12 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Richard Sanchez

  September 4, 2013 at 3:15 pm

  I’d put money on it, that either the file itself as a slash in it, or it’s in a folder with a slash in it. Particularly a date. If you organized your footage into folders “09/04/2013” that is a big no no. Make them 09-04-2013. A slash anywhere in the filepath will cause this. You want to avoid these illegal characters in your filename and file path / ? < > \ : * | ”

  Richard Sanchez
  Los Angeles, CA

  “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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  Kevin P mcauliffe

  September 4, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  Try AMA Linking to them, and see if that works.

  Kevin P McAuliffe
  Creative COW Leader
  kevinpmcauliffe@gmail.com
  Twitter: @kpmcauliffe

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