[Andreas Melzer]

Back in July, I had to correct a student’s movie that was an AVI. I had no problems with this job in FCP 5. I don’t know what version QT was at that time.

As I just read this post, I tried to open this AVI file again.

Today, a couple of months later, FCP is the latest version, QT is also the latest, OS X is 10.4.11.

FCP 6 says, it cannot open the Codec when I put the AVI in the timeline, QT Player says that it is missing software to open the movie. Both let me hear the Audio however.

Very strange.

QT Player lets me see the format inside the AVI file, it’s ‘dvsd’.

Just my 2 cents as a newby:)

[Andreas Melzer]

Yes, permissions could cause some trouble. In my case they seemed to be ok. I have the habit of repairing permissions on a regular basis using Cocktail.

As mentioned before, my problem seems to come from corrupted plugins. Replacing some of them with newly downloaded copies solved the issue.

Here is what GN answered:

“Hi Andreas,

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[Andreas Melzer]

Thanks Rafael, I have done so.

Meanwhile I continued experimenting and it seems that I have my plugins back, at least for now. I hope they will stay…

Here’s what I did:

I re-downloaded the Nattress plugins and put these one by one into the plugins folder. This time they both appeared in FCP’s Video Filters Menu. So far so good. I don’t know what the difference is since the re-downloaded plugs are the same versions.

Then I continued by adding my freeware plugins but I did not re-download any of them. Next I put the one called “50 Point Garbage Matte” back in. This made all Nattress plugins disappear. Instead the Garbage Matte filter showed up. So I removed it and the Nattress plugins reappeared in the menu.

I thought, this filter might be bad and set it aside. Then I continued to add all of the remaining plugins and they all showed up properly in FCP.

Just to verify that the Garbage Matte plugin was the problem, I moved it back in the plugins folder and – it showed up in the menu without making all the others disappear this time!

I don’t understand this.

It seems it made a difference in what order I added the plugins. Very strange indeed.

Furthermore it seems my Nattress plugs had become corrupted somehow since the re-downloaded ones now worked without making eachother disapper. I have no idea what happened. If someone can explain all that, I will be very thankful:)

Anyway I will not touch the plugins folder again as long as everything stays in place.

Greetings.
Andreas