Quick Time Pro gone after installing Snow Leopard

[Jason Brown]

All the info I can get on this file are the “codec details” in VLC. Here they are:

https://www.jbtwist.com/CC/codec.png

I don’t know if there are several types of h264 profiles…but it just says “h264” … anyway, my attempt at using Sorenson and Episode both failed. Sorenson won’t read it…and Episode fails on transcode…

I guess I could use VLC…

-Jason

[Jeremy Garchow]

Can you open it Quicktime at all? Even if it’s a white frame? if so, get info on the movie once opened (command-i from within QT).

Jeremy

[Jason Brown]

Yea…it opens, but gives me the error telling me it doesn’t have the correct codec.

Info panel is:

https://www.jbtwist.com/CC/info.png

-Jason

[Jeremy Garchow]

Have you tried perian yet?

[Jason Brown]

PERFECT!

That was totally the issue. I had that on my machine previously…it transcoded in compressor perfectly!

Thanks so much!!! This helps…it’s something for my family…so it’s a small victory, but a victory nonetheless!

BTW, is Perian something that should be on all mac’s that are running video editing workflows? I had run across it previously and really didn’t know what it was.

-Jason

[Jeremy Garchow]

It should always be in your back pocket, but has been known to cause some conflicts in the past (but not many). The nice thing is that you can easily turn it on or off.

Jeremy

[Rafael Amador]

Perian is great, but if you have to use it to read an h264 in your Mac, is just a patch, not a solution.
There is something wrong in your system.
Jason, do you have run DiskWarrior or something similar?
I’m about to install SL and FC7 in my laptop, but with your feedback I’m stating to doubt about.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jason Brown]

Hey Rafeal,

I don’t know what Disk Warrior is…

I suspect that my specific issue is that I’m using footage shot by a consumer camera and trying to interpret that footage in Compressor to transcode to an editing format.

The camera is a VadoHD camera made by Creative. The files are h264…but I’m sure it’s some strange flavor that isn’t very friendly unless you use the “Creative editing software” provided with the camera.

Perian has solved my specific issue…thanks again Jeremy!

P.S. Rafeal – I’ve been running FCS3 since it came out…and it’s run flawlessly on my MacPro and MacBookPro…the addition of Snow Leopard has introduced a few speedbumps…but I think that is just a fact of upgrading.

-Jason

[Jeremy Garchow]

But this is different, Raf. It’s a different container than a QT movie and h264 can vary, even though it’s called h264. You can’t read dvcpro HD MXFs without a special QT component. Same situation here. It is obviuosly different than the QT wrapped h264 that comes installed on every mac that has QT7. There is absolutely no reason to run disk warrior here.

I have Snow Leopard running and editing on four machines now and not looking back. AE cs4 screams on SL.  I wouldn’t hesitate too much if all of your main components are sl ready.

[Andrew Marshall]

I have a great little workaround for getting all this to work quickly in AE. Open an older project that has your previous render settings in it. Pre-snow leopard. And then save the output modules as pre-sets. You can then render happily to Sorenson 3. I am always having trouble getting H.264 to render out of AE. It looks great when you use QT pro.. but AE chokes on it and I dont have the freedom to make smaller movies to upload for previewing the way I can with sorenson. Anyway.. just my gripes with apple limiting people.

-rendering.