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Avid legacy codec linear pcm, AVRn
I have some old media (circa 2005) – linear pcm, AVRn .mov wrapper SD – and need to use it in the modern world but can’t for the life of me find a codec for such an archaic file type. I would ideally like to convert it to PRORES but the only programme I can view it on is VLC. I have installed all the Avid codec for Mac but this doesn’t work.
I am using a Mac running Lion, yes I can hear your eyes rolling and it is justified, but it has a Sierra partition.
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Can you not link to it in Avid MediaComposer? Does it not recognize it’s own, older, media type?
Shane
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no, strangely. I have Avid Media Composer on the same machine and installed the Avid LE Codec pack 2.3.8 and tried to view the files in that but too no avail. I could hear the audio but no video.
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That dang AVR codec. You might need to try to track someone down with a very old Avid (Talking Meridian here) and see if They can open it.
Shane
Little Frog Post
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
It’s not a very full featured encoder, but you can use VLC to convert it to another format that you can work with.
https://features.en.softonic.com/vlc-media-player-as-video-converter.
Not sure if you can convert directly to Pro Res, but if you really need the shot, you can get it converted to something decent enough to use.
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