believe it or not one hour later I find myself looking at mac OS 8.6 running
on a PowerMac 7100 which has been upgraded to run a G3 processor (howz that
for OLD school?) I feel like a young man again, sort of...
But apparently this machine (which is the first computer I ever actually
owned and I can't believe I actually haven't thrown it away yet and that it
still functions) does not have the Avid codec installed... so now my
question becomes how to get an ABVB capable version of Avid codec that will
run on Mac OS 8.6 / Quicktime 4.1.2
time for some google searching etc.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Knut A. Helgeland <knut@toxic.no> wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > Will Mpeg Streamclip or VLC open it?
> >
> >
> > Benjamin Hershleder
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> >
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> > On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Dirk de Jong 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.
> >>
> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:
> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
>
> Search the offical complete Avid-L archives at:
> http://archives.bengrosser.com/avid/
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
--
Dirk
BorisFX
dirkd@borisfx.com
Things are not as they appear.
Nor are they otherwise.
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