How big is the thing?
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dirk de Jong <dirkd@...> wrote:
>
> I have a really old Avid codec QT file I'd like to be able to read (and
> re-encode, etc.) but I'm having trouble reading it on modern machines.
>
> It's a file I created (apparently in 1998 according to the creation date) on
> a pre-Mac OSX Media Composer (probably ABVB based). When I just tried to
> open it (today) on a current Mac OS it showed a white screen and the message
> about missing components, etc. So I installed Avid Codecs LE etc. and now it
> plays the audio and doesn't complain about anything missing but QT player
> shows black where the video should be. I tried moving it over to a WIN
> machine where QT with Avid codecs is also installed but it doesn't recognize
> it as a supported file there (the file extension on the file is .MooV and I
> tried changing it to .mov etc. but I realized this file might be from before
> QT was even cross platform?) I'm recovering this file from a Mac OS format
> CD burned back in 1998 and I believe the file itself is undamaged and there
> doesn't seem to be any problem with the disc (the file copies off the disc
> fine under Mac OS X...)
>
> On Monday I can try importing it into current Avid MC software but I'm not
> too optimistic about that working either... Anyone have experience /
> suggestions for reading such an old Mac Avid QT file ? Thanks.
>
>
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