.avi compatibility.

[Donatello]

how were the clips captured ?
if it was beta/digibeta or anything captured using decklink then you would need to go to decklink and download the blackmagic codec …

if it was captured on a Avid then you would go to avid to download their free codec ..

if it was shot on DV25 then it should play unless somebody rendered it using a none standard codec ?

[Christopher R. green]

First, when you get this kind of movie (the kind that shows up as a white nothingness), do a command-i in quicktime player to see what compressor is being used. Half the time (these complex calculations are coming from the top of my head) you’ve got a DivX codec for which you can download the decompressor codec at either divx.com or 3ivx.com (which is an alternative that some people prefer). The other half of the time you’ve got something like … just the thought of it makes my skin crawl … and old INDEO codec, which is not and probably never will be available for OSX, infuriatingly. There is an INDEO codec for Mac OS9, though – if you’ve got Classic available to you (it’s even downloadable from the apple site I believe). Probably the only argument for keeping an old OS9 machine available in the corner under the flower pot.
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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

if you can;t get these AVI’s to play on any macbhine you have, it’s got to be a codec issue, or a problem with the machine that originally captured it. It’s not a mac thing.

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