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  • Problem Say’s “QuickTime is not installed on this system, some components..

    Posted by Shehab Saleh on March 31, 2012 at 9:31 am

    hello creatives,
    I im so frustrated with this problem Saying: QuickTime is not installed on this system, some components will not work correctly
    i tried to uninstall Quicktime, after effects but still
    and i search for solutions i found one but its not helpful “https://adobe.hosted.jivesoftware.com/message/3425417”

    please find a fixing for my AE problem

    thanx

    http://www.shehabart.com

    Marc Serhan replied 7 years, 11 months ago 9 Members · 10 Replies
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  • Joseph W. bourke

    March 31, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    This could be a possible solution from a while back by Andy Kessler:

    “Go to your QuickTime installation directory and find QTCF.dll. Copy that file to \Adobe After Effects CS3\Support Files. Next time you start AE it should work.”

    You didn’t which version of AE you have, so you might want to just copy the .dll file to the /Support Files folder in whatever version you have. I hope it helps.

    Joe Bourke
    Owner/Creative Director
    Bourke Media
    http://www.bourkemedia.com

  • Todd Kopriva

    March 31, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    You say that you tried to uninstall QuickTime. Why would you do that? The error message is telling you to install QuickTime.

    See this for suggestions for troubleshooting problems with QuickTime:
    https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2011/02/troubleshooting-quicktime-errors-with-after-effects.html

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  • Shehab Saleh

    March 31, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    CS5, I don’t see file called QTCF.dll !! can you explain more how to get it

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  • Shehab Saleh

    March 31, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    i tried but no answer i thought that is firewall but when i removed anti-virus program After effects CS5 work fine but once time
    _—
    otherwise AE CS4 working as well no problem with it

    http://www.shehabart.com

  • Anna-laura Guld

    August 27, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! I’ve been having this problem forever, and now it’s GONE!!!!

    Thank you for posting this 🙂

  • Sieger Duinkerken

    October 29, 2012 at 10:37 am

    I had the same problem, it seems to be gone after I turned Little Snitch 3.0 off !

    (also fixed missing output modules)

  • Sebi Wallheim

    November 8, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    This solved the problem for me:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnP5eIPKtw

  • Alles Vliegt

    September 5, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    Hi, your post dates back to 2012, but here in 2014 I am having the same issue on my late 2013 Mac Pro.

    When opening Adobe After Effects CC, the same warning pops up: ” Quicktime is not installed on this system, some components will not work correctly. ”

    But an older (trial) version of CS6 is also running on the same system…

    3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5
    32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
    OSX 10.9.4

    …and it exports QT correctly!
    I have installed both: Quicktime Player 7 Pro (7.6.6) and Quicktime Player 10.3. Firewall is disabled and I don’t use other Quicktime components.

    I found several threads on this topic like: https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2011/02/troubleshooting-quicktime-errors-with-after-effects.html
    and…
    https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/08/solutions-for-problems-with-quicktim e-files-in-after-effects-cc-12-0-because-of-conflict-with-dvcprohdvideoout-quicktime-component.html

    … But none of the above proposed solutions seem to work. That’s why I am trying my luck here.

    Thanks in advance!

  • Parham Shakibaei

    November 11, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnP5eIPKtw

    watch this video
    this is the simple way
    i did and probs fixed

  • Marc Serhan

    June 3, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    Hello AfterEffecters,

    I can’t believe this post started in 2012 and the problem still exist.

    In my case, it started recently (never had that before) so go figure why it happened.

    Anyway, Joseph Bourke’s suggestion to copy the .dll file from Quictime folder worked for me. Thank you, Sir.

    Cheers all.

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