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Projects moved from Mac to PC
Running CS6. So I have a PC but most of my projects I’ve done were on a Mac at my school. I had some unfinished projects that I needed to finish up. I’m at home now and not at my college so I can’t just easily hop on them Mac computers to finish it. I have to do it on my PC. I’ve been able to gain access to my Mac formatted hard drive using MacDrive but the problem here seems to be the preview codecs or something else.
I try to open up the project on my PC and it says that the sequence can’t be opened because of the previews or something. The message I get is:
the project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type
I googled around a bit and only tried opening my project in Notepad and changing all the “I-Frames” to “Microsoft AVI” to no avail.
Does anyone know any other solutions? Or do I just gotta bite the bullet and re-edit everything?
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Sounds like you used a Mac friendly codec that’s not on your PC. Most likely Apple ProRes. There are ProRes decoders available for PC.
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if you did use prores on the mac, make sure quicktime 7.6 or later is installed on the pc.
that will enable you to read prores.
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Okay, well to fix the sequence thing, I made a new project and a new sequence with Microsoft AVI, then I just imported my old sequence, copied all the clips and then pasted in the new sequence and then deleted the old one.
But being that I’m on windows now, the other problem I had was the audio since my footage was AVCHD. I couldn’t really find a fix so I just bit the bullet and converted all to MP4 and then re-linked all the footage.
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