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hamby175
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April 17, 2018
Question

After Effects Error:Source file has no importable streams

After the latest update for CC 2018, After Effects nor Premier will import several QT files. I receive "After Effects Error:Source file has no importable streams" I have a couple of workstations I haven't updated yet and they don't have an issue. What's the fix for this for the current update?

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Agni7
Agni7
Known Participant
May 10, 2020

The new Adobe suite has been facing this problem even from the 2017 version.

There is a solution - Install Handbrake and convert the mov files to mp4 or something similar. It will work then. 
However if your video files contain any alpha channel, then have a look at this tutorial : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awnWM_9cpFY 

 

Hope it helps.

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alexs71686224
Participating Frequently
November 20, 2018

Humanity is doomed.

GuysMonkies
GuysMonkies
Participant
December 17, 2018

The exciting bit is that AFX can still export QT animation codec, and import those files, but any of my older QT animation codec files give this error.

I swear I looked through all the documentation when they were saying there was going to be some issues with old codec, and no one said Animation codec in QT was on the chopping board.

What a freak'n pain.
I have 3 episodes of an animated web series with about 800 QT master files...

EDIT:

I downloaded an earlier version of Media Encoder v 11.1.4 and converted my shots to MXF files. I placed them in the same folder as the last mov files.
When I replaced(ctrl + h) the mov's with the mxf's I got the same error. So, I made a new folder called MXFs and placed all of the new files in there. Now when I replace (ctrl + h) it works fine.

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alexs71686224
Participating Frequently
November 20, 2018

"Assumed Answered." LOL.

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Z Shackelford
Participant
August 28, 2018

Hello all. This video helped me out and I didn't have to stray far from Adobe. You can convert the mov files inside of Photoshop. At least until they stop supporting the codec there as well.

You basically drop the file in PS and export from there using the ANIMATION selection. I was not able to simply reload the new file however, I still had to drag and drop the new one in. But this saved me DAYS of work having to rebuild all of this in HitFilm.

I hope this helps.

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    tarac97604066
    Participant
    October 18, 2018

    This didn't work for me. When I try to open in photoshop it says "Could not complete your request because the video file could not be opened".

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      alexs71686224
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      August 27, 2018

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        jon_walker1
        Participant
        August 21, 2018

        I had luck opening the file with Photoshop and then rendering it out as an image sequence.

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        djmattyz
        Inspiring
        August 12, 2018

        same problem here, 

        the files are not .mov   some of them are mp4.

        there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it,  because some files from a drone camera are opening, other files from the same drone are not opening.

        same issue across after effects, premiere and media encoder. if a file wont open in one of them it wont open in any of them.

        looks like a bug to me

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        djmattyz
        Inspiring
        August 12, 2018

        i tried importing a whole folder full of files to premiere, and it imported them fine.   (the same files that gave me this error when trying to import  them individually)

        Brandon Loshe
        Brandon Loshe
        Legend
        August 8, 2018

        I realize that this is from a couple months ago, and you probably figured out some workaround by now. But I had the same problem and just now got it to work without rolling back to an older version. In my case, I had already had the .mov files in After Effects prior to updating because it was an older project. Some of them worked and some showed the same error message. They were all from the same source, so I'm not sure why. But simply moving the problematic files to another location of my hard drive and then using the Replace Footage → File option (basically relinking) worked. I don't understand how or why (total fluke), but figured that I would at least share this in case this helps anyone else.

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        nickh7472064
        Participant
        July 25, 2018

        Version 15.0.1 of AfterEffects works.

        Arbel Boss Vaknin
        Arbel Boss Vaknin
        Participant
        June 19, 2018

        Downloaded a previews version and it worked

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