No.
Avid never made OSX versions of their ABVB or Nuvista codecs. Don't ask me why.
You'll need an older mac with an OS9 partition. I seem to remember an old trick about opening QT player in Rosetta, but I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff.
K
On 17. des. 2010, at 22.02, Benjamin Hershleder wrote:
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> On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Dirk de Jong wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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...)
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>> 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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