AVI Codec?

[Dave Johnson]

Dirk,

My apologies that I seem to have misspoke in response to your earlier post. Although what I said about having to have the corresponding codecs installed in order to render to a particular format is true, apparently AVI is no longer available in AE’s output module window regardless of what codecs you have installed … it seems you have to go to File > Export > AVI … something I never do so I hadn’t considered it.

Sorry about that … I guess it’s been a while since I needed to render an AVI from one of my Macs so I didn’t notice that anything had changed.

[Walter Soyka]

[Dirk D. Lopez] “I would like to know how I can install the AVI codec on my MAC”

AVI is not a codec; it’s a container. Like Quicktime and other container formats, it can hold a wide variety of codecs, like DivX, DV, or Uncompressed. If you are being asked to deliver AVI files, you should find out what video codec is expected for your delivery.

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[Dirk d. Lopez]

Ok thanks all! Looks like everything ended up working out in the end.

I just used the FILE> EXPORT TO AVI and that worked. The render queue option is no longer available which I still think is weird.