John Lanigan
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Ah thats unfortunate, we had seemed to be on the right track. Does quicktime ever crash on you with a “Buffer Overrun” error?
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Well hopefully the reinstall will get around your problem. Provided any of my footage is imported into After Effects from an external drive it plays fine so I hope this works for you too. Glad you had some progress.
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Hi Chris,
I’ve had similar issues with After Effects and Quicktime on a 32 bit Vista OS. I’ve found a temporary workaround solution so maybe it might work for you too, when I first stumbled across the workaround in the Apple forums with other people encountering I couldn’t believe it would work but to my surprise it did.
First off though you’ve specified that you are only encountering issues with .MOV files? Forgetting about After Effects for a minute, have you tried playing these .MOV just in quicktime, are you getting problems here, choppy playback, crappy sound, quicktime occasionally crashing etc?. As these were my symptoms, as part of my tests trying to diagnose the problem I uninstalled Quicktime and I decided to try both “K-Lite Mega Codec Pack” and also “VideoLAN – VLC media player”. Both of these media player alternatives played the .MOV files perfectly. However once I reinstalled Quicktime it had the same playback problems as previously and unfortunately After Effects only seems to accept Quicktime itself for rendering work.
Anyway try the above tests after removing Quicktime to see if .MOV media play ok in the other media players. Anyway I digress, it appears that in my case Quicktime has a conflict with the Nvidia chipset of my motherboard, the workaround which was suggested in the Apple forums for me and which I can confirm works is to copy any .MOV files to an external USB drive, YES you read it right, once the .MOV is copied to an external USB drive the media will play correctly in Quicklime and work properly in After Effects. Go figure eh. I’m not sure if this workaround will work for you but try it out.