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Installing or Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime on Other Systems
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Avid supports the import and export of QuickTime movies while preserving their timecode
information.
When you export a QuickTime clip or sequence from your Avid editing application, the
timecode information of the clip or sequence is embedded in the QuickTime movie. If you move
these QuickTime movies to another Avid editing application and import them, the timecode
information is included in the clip or sequence information.
If a third-party application supports the preservation of timecode on import and export, the
exported timecode track is visible when you export a QuickTime clip from your Avid editing
application and then import it into or view it in the third-party application.
Installing or Copying the Avid Codecs for QuickTime
on Other Systems
If you want to export a QuickTime movie from a third-party application such as Adobe After
Effects
®
for use on an Avid system, install the appropriate Avid codec on the system running the
third-party application. You can either download the codecs from the Avid website or copy them
from your editing application system to another system.
To copy the Avid QuickTime Codecs from your editing system to another system:
1. On your Avid system, open one of the following folders:
(Windows) drive:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTComponents
(Windows) drive:\Windows\System32
(Macintosh) MacintoshHD/Library/QuickTime
2. Copy the codecs you need to a removable device or network server.
The following table describes the codecs:
Codec (Windows) Codec (Macintosh) Description
AvidAV1xCodec.qtx QTAvidOneToOneXCodec Avid 1:1x codec (Uncompressed MXF
8-bit or 10-bit)
AvidAVd1Codec.qtx QTAvidDV100Codec Avid DVCPRO codec (MXF)
AvidAVdnCodec.qtx QTAvidDNXHDCodec Avid DNxHD codec (MXF)
AvidAVdvCodec.qtx QTAvidDVCodec Avid DV codec (DV 25 and DV 50,
OMF and MXF)
AvidQTAVjiCodec.qtx QTAvidMeridienCompressedCodec Avid Meridien Compressed codec (OMF 8-bit)