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Codec'd .AVI won't play in iMovie

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Hey guys, I am trying to put together a video with a few different things. I have two videos that are codec'd and are a .avi file. I could not get them to play in Quicktime until I downloaded Perian. I tried converting them using two programs and ended up deleting them since they left watermarks on the video.

Now that I can play the files in Quicktime, why can't I upload them to iMovie?

Is there a way I can uncodec them or what? I'm not 100% tech savvy anymore...

Thanks,

-rockstate
 
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Try something like ffmpegX to convert the files. Since QuickTime Player is reading the files, QuickTime could likely save them into another format as well, but is costs money.
 
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Well, it worked out great! Thanks for the help.

The video is pretty sweet, IMO, but it still needs a little bit of work and needs to be finished.

-rockstate
 

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