• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Andy Mees or anyone please help me

  Posted by Mervyn on December 8, 2005 at 8:13 am

  Need help here again.

  I’ve tried the using avid dv meridian codec to compress my video to quicktime so that the avid mojo for protools can read and the vo booth can view it on the monitor. But it say general error. May i know what seems to be the problem.

  Really need to get this codec working. I am trying to export quicktime to protools so that the movie file can work in protools through a avid mojo.

  But everytime i set the settings, avid dv meridian, Least quality, 20:1 interlaced, millions of colors +, and when i click save there will be a general error that appears. SO need to know what is the problem. I downloaded it from a mac os version. And just place it in the library, quicktime. But it jus doesn’t work…

  Please advise…

  Thanks
  Mervyn

  Andy Mees replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rienk Leendertse

  December 8, 2005 at 12:29 pm

  shot in the dark:
  >>Million of colors +…

  Why not use Millions of Colors, without the plus sign.
  To have an alpha channel (the ‘+’) on a final video output seems not logical.

  Rienk
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  Andy Mees

  December 8, 2005 at 2:55 pm

  it sound like you got the wrong codec!
  its not the avid “meridian” codec you want, its the avid dv codec.

  go to this website:
  https://www.avid.com/forms/freeDVRegDownload.asp

  register for, and then download the Avid FreeDV application for Mac OSX

  when you get it, you can unstuff it, then right click the installer and choose “Show Package Contents”
  open the “Contents” folder then double click the “Archive.pax.gz” file
  the file will unarchive itself twice; first to a file called “Archive.pax” and then to a folder called “Archive”
  inside that folder you should see the folder structure Library > Quicktime (amongst others, of course)
  and in the Quicktime folder you’ll see the codec called AvidAVdvCodec.component
  take that one and drop it into your computers /Library/Quicktime/ directory

  then try again with your export… now you see Avid DV as an option.

  in this FreeDV release (v1.6.1) the Avid Meridian Compressed codec ( AvidAVDJCodec.component ) and Uncompressed codec ( AvidAVUICodec.component ) do not work with Apple’s Quicktime 7

  they do have QT7 compatible codecs but these have not been freely released and are available only as a part of the latest Adrenaline and Xpress releases

  free free to contact m off list if you have any more trouble with that Avid DV codec
  andymees -at- startv -dot- com
  good luck
  Andy

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