• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  AVI components

  Posted by David Rowan on September 6, 2006 at 7:40 pm

  I get a lot of clips from a lot of sources. Much of the time these are AVI clips, but I cannot open them on my Mac (The PC opens them).

  I got Flip-4-Mac (the free version) but that didn’t help, nor did the other codecs that I could find.

  Is there a good plug in or bundle of codecs I can add to my Quicktime so it it will play a greater variety of AVI files? And more importantly, that I can use to convert the files to something useful?

  DWR

  David Bogie replied 19 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Bogie

  September 7, 2006 at 3:41 pm

  There are literally hundreds of obscure and proprietary AVI codecs but only a scant few were ever ported to the Macintosh and they all died back in the last century. Your only hope is to use a PC to convert them to Quicktime.

  AVI persists only because of billions of ancient PCs.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

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