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CS4 Doesn’t recognize Animation Codec?
This is an Adobe CS4 question and not just an After Effects question, I’m not sure where it belongs exactly…
I’ve been trying to see if anyone else is having this issue, but haven’t seen anything yet, I’ve got 6 Windows XP systems, one of them is XP(64 bit). They all have Avid Media Composer and Adobe CS3 as well as Adobe CS4. I export projects out of Avid using the Quicktime Animation codec set to best and NONE of the Adobe CS4 apps on any of the computers can see the video (they do see the audio though), but CS3 can see it. This is kind of a problem as i like to use the CS4 media encoder to create proofs and FLV’s, but it can’t see the video!
Am I the only one with this problem?
Does anyone know a work around or a solution to this?Thanks,
Chad
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“Did you install quicktime AFTER you installed CS4?”
Thanks for the tip, I’m certain we installed quicktime BEFORE CS4, but that at least gives me something to mention to our engineers. I wish we had Macs, oh well.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
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“Adobe CS4 doesn’t NOT like working on AMD Processors”
Yet another good tip, but not the issue, we are using Intel processors. Although, I’m definitely filing that one away and mentioning it to our I.S. Director, so the next batch of computers we get won’t have that issue. Are you experiencing similar issues with your AMD processors?
I wonder if it’s a graphics card issue? There’s probably 3 different graphics cards spread out across the 6 computers, so I’m sure it’s not related to a specific card or driver perhaps, but they are all Nvidia GeForce graphics cards, could that be it?
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I had an Avid editor edit some footage that was captured from a P2 card using FCP. He had to get some sort of driver to see the footage.
This might be it:
https://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/browseCodec.aspI’m thinking the driver might work going both ways.
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I tried that codec, but it didn’t work, CS4 still doesn’t see the actual video of Animation codec quicktimes. That download was for Avid codecs, and I’m pretty sure Animation isn’t an Avid codec, but I could be wrong. It’s an insane thing because if I open the clips up in quicktime I can see the video just fine, and I can see the video in CS3 applications, but not CS4. Is there another uncompressed codec that isn’t an Avid codec, like the Animation codec?
Thanks,
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I FIGURED IT OUT!!!! It turns out it wasn’t such big problem after all, it appears Alpha channel interpretation was to blame… …not sure why I didn’t think of that to begin with.
In case anyone else happens to run into this same problem I figured I should post the solution.
So my problem originally was Adobe CS4 not recognizing the video from an Animation Codec Quicktime file exported from AVID. The problem was that I was exporting the color depth as “Millions of colors +” which means I was exporting with an alpha channel, even though, as far as AVID was concerned, all the pixels were opaque. After Effects obviously can handle this, I just had to adjust how it interpreted the alpha channel.
It appears Adobe Media Encoder doesn’t know what to do with alpha channel information, so it automatically made all the pixels transparent (just like AE did), but with no way of changing how it interprets alpha channels, I figured it was screwed up.
THE SOLUTION: was to change the color depth when I export out of AVID as “Millions of colors”. With no alpha channel data the Adobe Media Encoder saw all the pixels as they should be and now all is well with the universe… …for now….
Thanks for the help, ideas, and tips from everyone.
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Glad I found this. I just had the same problem and posted it but couldn’t get an response. You’ve saved my bacon.
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