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    AVI files not showing

    Posted by Aaron Ash on February 14, 2008 at 3:25 am

    For some reason when I import AVI files into After Effects CS3 they don’t show (just black). I know the files work because they play in both VLC and Windows media player. They even turn out as just black videos when I render them. I’m using windows xp sp2 32 bit, with a core 2 quad q6600 and 4gb of DDR2 800 ram. Other files like wmv show up just fine; but not avi, and thats the file format that almost all of my work is in.

    Thanks for replies.
    Aaron.

    Aaron Ash replied 18 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Erik Pontius

    February 14, 2008 at 5:44 am

    You are probably missing a codec. AVI is just a container and can contain video encoded in any number of different formats.
    If you don’t know what codec it might be needing, a handy tool for identifying it is GSpot
    https://gspot.headbands.com/

    Erik

  • Aaron Ash

    February 14, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    Yes you were right, gspot shows no avi codec installed. Where do you recommend I download those codecs?

    thanks,
    aaron

  • Aaron Ash

    March 4, 2008 at 12:36 am

    Is there any particlar codec that I should download?

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