• Adobe After Effects

  MOV played out on PC AE not recognised on Mac

  Posted by Olly Lawer on March 11, 2014 at 1:59 pm

  We’ve got a new PC and played out a MOV (we have QT installed) on AE. The file, however, is not recognised on FCPX even though it is H.264 MOV.

  Any ideas? We’re now trying an AVI.

  Olly Lawer

  Olly Lawer replied 12 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Joseph W. bourke

  March 11, 2014 at 2:57 pm

  Although I find it hard to believe that FCPX wouldn’t accept any flavor of Quicktime, that appears to be the case. Bear in mind that Quicktime is merely a wrapper, and that it’s possible to have DV, HDV, XDCAM, DNxHD, ProRes, DVCPRO, MPEG-4, and other actual encoding within that wrapper. This is the problem. Most suggestions I’ve seen are to convert your H.264 files into ProRes.

  This also might be of some help:

  https://www.larryjordan.biz/media-in-fcp-x/

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

  March 11, 2014 at 3:06 pm

  OK, so if no program accepts these files on Mac, how do be convert them (taking the PC) out the picture??

  Olly Lawer
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  Olly Lawer

  March 11, 2014 at 3:57 pm

  Hmm, think I have solved it. Have installed QT Pro. Now rendering out a Animation codec QT from AE seems to be readable on a Mac. Hurrah!

  Thank you!

  Olly Lawer

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