.avi compatibility.

[Chris Zwar]

I assume you are on a Mac.

You can import .avi into After Effects, by telling AE it is a Quicktime movie. When you go to “import”, select “show all files” or whatever it is at the top of the finder window. This will allow you to select the avi. Then down the bottom, where you have to specify the file type, choose “Quicktime”. Annoying, but works perfectly.

-Chris

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Or you could just import the video into AE, and render the entire thing as Quicktime…

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[Chris Zwar]

Yes, I probably should have explained that’s what I meant.

On a Mac, you cannot import an AVI directly- the file selecter does not let you pick avis. I assumed that Alexander wanted to get an AVI into After Effects (because this is the AE forum) but because you can’t do it directly on a Mac, was asking for a way to convert it to a mov.

Perhaps I assumed too much, but I thought that by explaining how you can import an AVI into AE running on a Mac, you don’t need to convert it first- and then, as you suggest, you can just use AE to render it out as a mov 🙂

-Chris

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[Alexander Gao]

for some reason the video doesn’t show up in AE when I simply import it, so that’s an answer to Arahon: If i rendered it, it’d just be kinda blank. By the way, Arahon, I love your podcasts. They’re great and interesting.

Alexander Gao

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Thanks. I appreciate your listening 😉

So as I understand it when you try an import AVI’s into After Effects, they don’t import. Nothing happens, right? Or is it that it’s imported, but you can’t see anything?

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[Alexander Gao]

i can import it if I override AE’s (OSX) “Acceptable Files” option, but once importd, it just plays out as chopps audio with a blank white picture.

Alexander Gao

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[Chris Zwar]

Oh. The only thing I can think of is that although the file is an avi, it’s a non-standard codec such as a DivX variant or similar. In that case I can’t offer any suggestions.

I have experienced exactly what you describe when trying to use DivX footage, although exactly what codec it was I don’t know. DivX seems to cover a wide range of things….

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

that would be my call. Some kind of non-standard codec that AE doesn;t understand.

Can you render you’re AVI’s uncompressed?

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[Steve Roberts]

Sometimes you just need access to a Windows box to do conversions. This may be one of those times.

Steve

[Alexander Gao]

fortunately i do have 3 windows machines, but after effects still can’t handle .avi files on these machines. What’s the deal? Do I need to download some codec or something?

Alexander Gao

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