After Effects .mov export files are "not compatible" with QuickTime Player

[joell54279662]

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?

[jess5DF4]

Thank you so much! Worked a treat and just cuts that step out of having to take it into Premier Pro.

[Kham La0101]

THANK YOU!!! This worked and it's actrually under  'Lossless' and then click FORMAT.

[Jordan98A6]

YES! This worked like a charm! Whew, thank you so much!

[Mariela5C27]

OMG thank you so much!!! you are a life saver this worked perfectly !!

[Erika5EC4]

Thanks so much! This fixed it.

[FLORENTHEENA]

THANK YOU THANK YOU!! You have just saved my first college online exhibition project

[neo79]

Thank you for the simple solution!!!!

[Picadillie5E47]

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?

[Andrew Yoole]

ProRes 422 does not support alpha channels.  ProRes 4444 does support alpha channels, so try that.

[aefoley]

Big shoutout to Matt Jamess - this is just what I needed!

[MaXim23845162y2oh]

Man, THANK YOU so much u saved my gf project. I wish you a millions dollars, cars and hot girls all over ur house

[Christian224774537giz]

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 

[Conscious Convent]

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!

[Poet24717688i3q8]

getting the 

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. 

[calvin26]

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

[Poet24717688i3q8]

i found a workaround using cloudconvert.com i just upload form my drive and
covert it to mpg

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