• Adobe After Effects

  Exported Uncompressed AVI won`t play

  Posted by Nathan Quattrini on March 19, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  I`m trying to review my uncompressed avi output from AE 7.0, originally WMP 11 was crashing with the quartz.dll being the problem. I deleted registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Media Type and reinstalled WMP 11…not it says “cannot play the file, it may be compressed with an unsupported codec.” How can ‘uncompressed’ be unsupported? I need help badly.

  Kunal Puri replied 19 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kunal Puri

  March 21, 2007 at 1:58 pm

  A few questions first:
  1. Have you tried restoring all settings to default prior to rendering and then specifying uncompressed frames?
  2. Have you tried playing the file in another media app like Power DVD?
  3. Does the file import into a video editor?
  4. What’s the file size of the final render? Chances are that if it’s mondo-big WMP is wheezing under the strain or your system is.
  5. What’s your system config?

  Technically you’re right. There’s no reason why WMP 11 shouldn’t play the file. If I’ve ever come across an error like this it’s usually been an error in the render process. Re-rendering the file normally does the trick. Just select a lossless render at best settings. Manually select uncompressed frames and render the file. Hope this helps. Scream if it doesn’t.

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