AVI files not showing


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AVI files not showing
by Aaron Ash on Feb 14, 2008 at 3:25:01 am

For some reason when I import AVI files into After Effects CS3 they don't show (just black). I know the files work because they play in both VLC and Windows media player. They even turn out as just black videos when I render them. I'm using windows xp sp2 32 bit, with a core 2 quad q6600 and 4gb of DDR2 800 ram. Other files like wmv show up just fine; but not avi, and thats the file format that almost all of my work is in.

Thanks for replies.
Aaron.

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Re: AVI files not showing
by Erik Pontius on Feb 14, 2008 at 5:44:08 am

You are probably missing a codec. AVI is just a container and can contain video encoded in any number of different formats.
If you don't know what codec it might be needing, a handy tool for identifying it is GSpot
http://gspot.headbands.com/

Erik

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Re: AVI files not showing
by Aaron Ash on Feb 14, 2008 at 10:35:41 pm

Yes you were right, gspot shows no avi codec installed. Where do you recommend I download those codecs?

thanks,
aaron

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Re: AVI files not showing
by Aaron Ash on Mar 4, 2008 at 12:36:37 am

Is there any particlar codec that I should download?

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