• Adobe After Effects

  Transfer from Mac to PC

  Posted by Clintw80 on September 25, 2007 at 12:49 am

  I’m trying to export a full screen 3 minute QT from an old version of Final Cut Pro on to AE for PC. I’ve tried exporting QT’s in Sorenson and a few other codecs, but everytime I put it on the PC, it says it isn’t a valid QT file, and that AE can’t open it. Am I using the wrong codec? Is it a Mac/PC issue? Is the file too big?

  Steve Roberts replied 18 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Jeff Mcbride

  September 25, 2007 at 1:33 pm

  Are you making the file self-contained? Do so if not.

  Jeff McBride
  Motion Graphic Designer/Editor
  LimeGreen
  Chicago, IL

  http://www.limegreenproductions.com
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  Steve Roberts

  September 25, 2007 at 1:35 pm

  If your Windows drive is formatted to FAT32, you have a 4GB files size limit on that drive.
  If the drive is NTFS, Mac can’t write to it.

  Solution? Figure out how much of the file needs to be exported to keep it under 4GB, and export segments of that length or smaller. Reassemble in AE.

  But that may not be the problem. Did you try rendering to the Animation codec? You should use a high-quality codec, not something like Sorenson.

  Is the filename under 30 characters?
  Does it have a MOV extension?
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  Steve Roberts

  September 25, 2007 at 1:37 pm

  Good answer! Didn’t think of that!
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  Darby Edelen

  September 25, 2007 at 4:19 pm

  [Steve Roberts] “If the drive is NTFS, Mac can’t write to it.”

  They can over a network… go figure.

  Darby Edelen
  DVD Menu Artist
  Left Coast Digital
  Aptos, CA
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  Steve Roberts

  September 25, 2007 at 5:16 pm

  Hm. Food for thought.

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