• Compression Techniques

  Codec Questions

  Posted by Dave on November 6, 2007 at 8:10 pm

  Ok so I decided to participate is the Tori Amos contest and downloaded the footage. Now here’s my problem… I don’t think that I have a DV codec because nothing that I have, Avid Xpress DV 4.1, After Effects 6.5, Quicktime Pro 7.2, will recognize the footage. The blog on here says that it is a DV codec, on the contest site it says DV25, when I try to open the files in quicktime the error message that I get says… “ERROR -2048: Couldn’t open the file CAM_B_Tk1_WS.mov because it is not a file that QuickTime understands.” and I get a similar message in AFX and Avid.

  Dave replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erik Pontius

  November 6, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  Oh…how cool. Looks like it’s going to be a tough one to key out.
  I’ve got pretty much the same software installed as you..Avid, after effects, QT pro… Seems to open up fine. Ordinarly, if you are missing a codec, QT and AE will show a white screen rather than the video. If you are getting an error instead, there is a possibility that the file is corrupted.
  I downloaded the first file off the site and it was pretty close to a gig..919mb’s. So if your download crapped out part way through that might explain why it can’t open it.

  Erik
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  Dave

  November 6, 2007 at 11:34 pm

  Ok I’ll try re-downloading the footage and see if that makes a difference.

  Thanks

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