• Adobe After Effects

  aftereffects error: retrieving frame from video stream

  Posted by Bryanisfishing on November 20, 2005 at 1:19 am

  basically I downloaded a video online.
  it was encoded in Xvid codec mpeg-4

  is there something that im missing here and i wasn’t aware of, like somehow install the codec again?

  Bill Clotz replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bill Clotz

  November 20, 2005 at 2:36 am

  After Effects does not work well with codecs like that. Try re-encoding it to a lossless or uncompressed codec.
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  Bryanisfishing

  November 20, 2005 at 2:38 am

  the video I downloaded, well i wanted to use it for a project that I am diong…

  how do i uncompress something like that?

  is there free software out there?
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  Bill Clotz

  November 20, 2005 at 6:11 pm

  If you are using Windows, you can use a program called VirtualDub. If you are on a Mac then I have no idea. I have heard maybe Quicktime?
  https://www.virtualdub.org/

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