• Adobe After Effects

  FCP CODEC Pack for WinXP

  Posted by Chazmeister on August 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm

  Hi all.

  I was trying to load some footage rendered from Final Cut Pro to rotoscope in AE7. When I brought the .mov file into AE, the screen was white. I researched the problem and even talked to Adobe Tech Support. The guy with whom I spoke told me that I need to get the FCP CODEC Pack for Windows. I have been trying to find the codec pack on the Internet, but to no avail. Can someone help me with some guidance on this?

  Fwiw….. I read another thread wherein the poster had a the exact same problem. There is no way to invert the Alpha channel. It is a CODEC problem as explained above.

  Thanks.

  Erik Pontius replied 18 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Erik Pontius

  August 29, 2007 at 6:00 pm

  Never heard of such a thing. If you find it let us know.
  In the meantime, you’ll need to find an intermediate codec like QT animation which is included in the windows version of QT.
  SheerVideo codec by Bitjazz is not a free encoding codec (though the reader is) and does a really nice job. There are Mac and PC versions.

  Erik
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  Chazmeister

  August 29, 2007 at 9:35 pm

  Thanks guys.

  I was talking to a colleague of mine today who said he has encountered this problem as well and told me what needed to be to correct it.

  Instaed of rendering the clip(s) to a regular FCP .mov file, the file has to be render as follows:

  File>Export> Using QT Conversion>Options> choose settingsd for QT movie.

  I hope I did that right, as I do not have FCP, but am doing work from those files in AE7 (PC).

  Thanx.
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  Erik Pontius

  August 30, 2007 at 7:12 pm

  Right. You are creating a self-contained quicktime movie. Make sure that you choose a lossless codec that is cross-platform. The animation codec I suggested earlier is lossless and cross-platform. It will result in a pretty big file.

  Erik

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