when loading avis into after effects, it says 'no such avi compressor'

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September 11, 2018
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I'm using after effects 5.5. i realise this isn't the community for that product but there isn't one on the Adobe site for After Effects and I'm hoping someone on this site will be able to help me find a solution. If there isn't an avi compressor, how come some avis load and others don't and when converting mpegs to avi's is there a recommended compression setting? I've looked in the manual but haven't been able to find any information about this.

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Rick Gerard

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Not all formats are supported. If you check the documentation you should be able to find the acceptable video formats. Generally any common production format is OK, but many camera specific formats require the installation of software from folks like Canon, Red, and Sony to be able to use them with AE. Many MPEG based delivery formats are not compatible with production and they need to be transcoded (rendered) to a suitable production format. This is not a bug, it's the way production has worked for a very long time and the way it will continue to work as more formats are developed and implemented.

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gilbertk40296593Author

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Kind of you to reply. The answer doesn't solve the problem. you mention the

documentation. I've only got a manual and that doesn't mention anything

about compression settings or types of avi files, merely that avis are the

type of file the software processes. is there somewhere I can find out this

information? CC and newer versions seem to accept mp4s. Is there an upgrade

I can obtain? The community pages aren't helpful and take ages to reply.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:03 PM Rick Gerard <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Mylenium

Legend

Without any actual info about the CoDecs used in the AVIs nobody can tell you much. You might want to download MediaInfo or other such tols to find out. Regardless of this, if you really mean AE 5.5 from the early 2000s then the holdup here is most definitely a technical incompatibility due to it not being able to handle DirectDraw based CoDecs with hardware acceleration, only the legacy GDI-based ones like Microsoft RLE or Uncompressed. In any case, you might want to study up on these thing and then decide whether it's actually worth hanging on to such an old version in light of these issues. If you really need output to contemporary formats and your camera is already producing incompatible files, then there seems little point in continuing to use this legacy version if every bit of work would entail lengthy conversion procedures using external programs.

Mylenium