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I'm using a MacBook with Catalina 10.15 and the latest After Effects.
After rendering files, QuickTime can't open the file and notifies me that the file/media is not compatible with QuickTime Player. What do I need to do, to be able to open the files with QuickTime?
The latest release of many Adobe products is not fully compatible with Catalina. OSX 10.15 completely dropped support for any 32-bit apps so Adobe is not the only casualty. Most of the components in most complex apps are now 64-bit apps, but all it takes is one block of code somewhere deep inside an app to kill the process. The problem with some forms of Quicktime is that Apple didn't exclude the QT player from the 64-bit spec so if you render to a codec that uses only 32-bit technology Catalina
...I was able to export the .mov and drag it into media encoder and re-export it.
When rendering, I had to click 'lossless' and then click the format options and change the Video Codec to something else (e.g. Apple ProRes 422 HQ) and QuickTime played it fine. Apparently QuickTime just doesn't like when the it is set to Animation but obviously if you need to use that I'm not sure what the fix would be. Hope this helps 🙂
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Thank you so much! Worked a treat and just cuts that step out of having to take it into Premier Pro.
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THANK YOU!!! This worked and it's actrually under 'Lossless' and then click FORMAT.
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YES! This worked like a charm! Whew, thank you so much!
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OMG thank you so much!!! you are a life saver this worked perfectly !!
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Thanks so much! This fixed it.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU!! You have just saved my first college online exhibition project
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Thank you for the simple solution!!!!
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Thanks. I have a video with a transparent background, but when selecting Apple ProRes 422 the 'RGB + Alpha' option is avaliable. Is there any possible way of exporting with a transparent background?
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ProRes 422 does not support alpha channels. ProRes 4444 does support alpha channels, so try that.
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Big shoutout to Matt Jamess - this is just what I needed!
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Man, THANK YOU so much u saved my gf project. I wish you a millions dollars, cars and hot girls all over ur house
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In 2022 I have to uninstall and reinstall to get it to function seemingly properly. Kind of disappointing. I hope there's a plausible solution coming
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I ran into the same issue. I found that the easiest and fastest way to do this is by converting using iMovie, as all files shared in iMovie are automatically saved as MP4 files. First I saved my MOV file created in AE to my desktop, now here is exactly how I converted it, in a few easy steps:
1) Open iMovie & create a new project
2) Hit "File" then hit "Import Media"
3) Import your MOV file into iMovie
4) Hit "File" then hit "Share" then hit "Next"
5) Save the document and VOILA!
From MOV to MP4 on any MAC!
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This file contains some media which isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player. notice for a video that i recorded the sme as i always do... im new to all of this so any assistance is welcome ... i keep seeing " change the Video Codec to something else" how dos one do that? I'm so confused and fustrated.
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Try using Adobe Media Encoder to change the video type: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzbDa755Er8
or look for "Matt James" reply in here. He had a good solution. Stay strong brudda keep scrolling, these community boards always had somebody who went through something similar. Might take a while but you'll find it
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