Edius 8 upgrade - won't recogonize some .mov

[DaveL]

I just upgraded to Edius 8 from Edius 7 (and recently upgraded to W10 as well - but I was using E7 on W10 for about 2 months).

Opening a project created in E7, E8 is not recognizing some of the .mov files that worked fine in E7.
I tried importing the same file again, but it wouldn't recognize it that way either.
Again, E7 played these files just fine.

The files it "doesn't like" appear to be the .mov files with alpha channel, but I'm not certain. Other .mov files are working fine.

Any suggestions? Please?

[DaveL]

Also, I forgot to say - The QT player will play these files on my PC just fine (but Windows movie won't).

any ideas? Thanks

[Adbear]

Try going into 'Settings', 'System Settings', 'Importer/Exporter' and under 'QuickTime' tick the box for 'Enable QuickTime Importer', then restart Edius. Does that make a difference?

[GrassValley_PS]

Go to Settings>System settings>Importer exporter>Quicktime and check Enable importer

[DaveL]

Yes, that did it. Thanks very much.

[antonsvideo]

this will be the most answered question this year :)

[GrassValley_PS]

Not if people use the search function. ;-)

[antonsvideo]

Not if people use the search function. ;-)

I am more thinking of users who do not visit this forum, the ones who call support

[Liverpool TV]

I have a feeling that E8.3 will have the option switched on by default. hopefully it won't be too long before GV have a totally native filter set for all things QT/MOV.

[SoundFreak_HD]

Sorry Dave Langley for high jacking this tread, I will (try) and behave now :)

[John Lewis]

Perhaps these can be moved by Pat to a new thread Im sure others also found it interesting

[DaveL]

I understand, Tony D. I tried searching the answer, but obviously not well, therefore interesting to hear others' ideas. Sorry I troubled the forum for a super obvious problem
I was also wondering why anyone would want to uncheck that option, especially as a default.

[GrassValley_PS]

I understand, Tony D. I tried searching the answer, but obviously not well, therefore interesting to hear others' ideas. Sorry I troubled the forum for a super obvious problem
I was also wondering why anyone would want to uncheck that option, especially as a default.

Because the whole Quicktime thing has many business places here in the US that are now banned from using QT. That is the reason for the update Tha allows work without QT.

[GrassValley_PS]

Perhaps these can be moved by Pat to a new thread Im sure others also found it interesting

I am in a Canadian airport at the moment. I will try and that tonight.

[DaveL]

For anyone interested in this topic: David Clarke's tutorial video on this topic is excellent. It's one of his new E8 videos and he specifically discusses quicktime and why the mode discussed in this thread is disabled by default.