• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  avi issue

  Posted by Rick Neely on January 8, 2011 at 7:16 pm

  Hey guys,

  maybe I was just lucky in the past or maybe it’s an upgrade issue or merely a setting, but I thought I touch base with you for ideas.

  I have a PC that encodes video to AVI (using mainconcept codec). I usually edit the video using the same PC, but on occasion, I have been able to edit in FCP. When i linked to the PC and imported the AVI files, FCP did warn me that it wasn’t ‘optimized’ for it and the software di run a bit slower, but I was fine with that and I could see & hear the video files and do what I needed.

  It’s been a couple weeks since I last did this, but NOW when I try to import the AVI files, I’m not getting a warning message, instead the files won’t play and the computer says ‘codec could not be opened’. I’m at a loss.

  Any thing I could try to get back to my setup from before. I don’t think I did anything different, and the files can be viewed with ease via regular Quicktime player on my mac, but not sure why FCP suddenly won’t view the files when it was able to before. Any ideas, I would appreciate. Thanks!

  rick

  Rick Neely replied 15 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rainer Wirth

  January 8, 2011 at 7:22 pm

  try mpeg streamclip

  Rainer
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  Zane Barker

  January 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm

  [Rick Neely] “maybe I was just lucky “

  Yes you have been lucky.

  You should convert those files to a proper FCP editing format before bringing them into FCP.

  **Hindsight is always 1080p**
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  Rafael Amador

  January 8, 2011 at 9:35 pm

  Is better to avoid any AVI on an FC time-line.
  However you should install Perian; will help QT (and may be to FC too) to manage AVI files.
  MPGStreamclip, have an option (Save as..) to re-wrap (no rendering) AVI files as QT, or QT as AVI files. All will depends if the codec is supported on both containers.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Rick Neely

  January 28, 2011 at 8:44 pm

  Thanks for everyone’s help a few weeks back,

  Think I diagnosed the problem. The AVI files I was referring to had the ‘dvsd’ codec according to its properties. Ironically, I had to un-install both the version of perian AND Divx codecs from both user and master Quicktime libraries, and VOILA, I was back.

  I don’t try to use AVI in FCP often, but sometimes my turnaround is so quick I have to turn stuff around fast and don’t have time to re-encode.

  Anyone know if the most recent perian plugin resolve this issue with ‘dvsd’ codeced Avis?

  Thanks.

  Rick

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