.mov files play sound no video

Hello,

I found a similar thread but the solution for that person didn’t work for me...

I was sent .mov files and i can’t open them with Quicktime or After Effects. The QT message is “You may experience problems playing a video track in intro.mov because the required compressor could not be found”

The movie properties is “vid Meridien Compressed”

Can anyone help me to open these? It is especially important to be able to open them in After Effects.

thanks!!!

nevermind..found the answer.

if anyone else has the same problem you need the avid codecs

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/advSearch.asp?newQuery=True&productID=10&versionID=0&topicID=4&localeID=0&searchStringKB=codecs&searchType=0

thanks for the info...I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why a Meridien sequence exported in Quicktime would not play on my other computer!

hello,

I still cannot get files that are vid meridien QT to play - they show up white - does anyone have a specific link I can check for downloading the correct codec?

-a

p.s. what in the world is “Big Endien” it says that next to the format in movie info for this movie.