[Jeremy_mccurdy]

I have a similar problem, after importing Quicktime files, After Effects will freeze and shut down if I try and actually see the clip. Occasionally when I was trying to get it to work, I’d get the blue screen of death and my computer would restart.

I figure the problem is probably coming from Quicktime being somewhat invasive as far as video codecs go, Vista prevents so many things from being changed that there’s probably a conflict between the two somewhere. Of course I could be way off base here.

Anyway, I’ve tried Apple’s Quicktime codec, and Quicktime Alternative, same problem. Tried using After Effects 7.0 and CS3 preview 1. I’m not sure if this is a problem Adobe can fix, I think it’ll probably get fixed once a proper Vista compatible version of Quicktime is released, but personally I’d rather not wait; if someone has a work around to this problem, please post it.