Avid Meridian codec

[laughingcolors 0]

on the mac... it works fine in AE but Quicktime Pro doesn't recognize the codec when i open it in the standalone player ( though it plays fine in AE ) any ideas on what i did wrong? thanx

[deepsky 0]

Merridian is a free codec by Avid, Quicktime does not offer this with the player. So every computer that will view or render a Quicktime with Merridian compression will have to download and drop the codec into either the Shared Quicktime folder or Windows System 32 folder.

[laughingcolors 0]

i did put it in my mac's quicktime prefrences library.

[deepsky 0]

I had one other issue with this codec in the past...had to update quicktime and restart.

[laughingcolors 0]

ran an update on software and no luck

[deepsky 0]

Hmmm, sounds to me like you need a new computer, it's going ka-put on ya.......kidding.

 

See if you have this version of the codec;

http://www.avid.com/onlinesupport/supportc...;contentID=3555

[laughingcolors 0]

yep thats the one im tryin to get.

thanks though

[prupert 0]

Hah!

 

I scan read this and saw it as Avid Merrion codec - as in the crazy carrot top neck brace nutter from the UK's Channel 4 show Bo Selcta http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/m...s/B/bo_selecta/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Francis

 

"Why's he got a codec?" I wondered, does it add plastic face masks to all your characters and give it a little shamone, mutha f*cker..oww!

 

Hmm, sadly not - the search continues

[laughingcolors 0]

note: to get it to work i had to say in info for qucktime, open with rosetta

[Guest Sao_bento]

note: to get it to work i had to say in info for qucktime, open with rosetta

Ahhhhhh - that's a good tip. I didn't think it was going to work at all.

[parallax 0]

note: to get it to work i had to say in info for qucktime, open with rosetta

 

WTF dude, are you running the avid codec on an Intel Mac?

[laughingcolors 0]

yes

[parallax 0]

That's weird. You can edit your footage in FCP, for instance? I've never read this before, the AVID codec not being Intel native and all.

[deepsky 0]

Good to know. Thanks for sharing that.

[laughingcolors 0]

I also had to manually update it in the info of quicktime. haven't tried it in FCP yet.

 

it doesnt work in FCP yet though

[graymachine 0]

For the sake of posterity and searching, I just wanted to post the words:

 

Avid Meridien

 

so those can find this thread in the future. I don't know where Avid got the spelling, but that's how it is.

[blockhead 0]

was there any luck with this as a preview(column view) in mac??

 

thank you laughing colors for the tip. i was stumped as to why these codecs didnt do a damn thing for me. i'm loving mograph more and more every day. and i am grateful for gray machine's "posterity". good lookin out.

[BeautifulTV 0]

Hah!

 

I scan read this and saw it as Avid Merrion codec - as in the crazy carrot top neck brace nutter from the UK's Channel 4 show Bo Selcta http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/m...s/B/bo_selecta/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Francis

 

"Why's he got a codec?" I wondered, does it add plastic face masks to all your characters and give it a little shamone, mutha f*cker..oww!

 

Hmm, sadly not - the search continues

 

I know Leigh, and he used to work for Paramount Comedy Channel (UK) making mograph in-house, I think that's where he got the name for his alter ego from...