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I think my codecs are messed up??

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Okay so I'm making a little Machinima movie for school, I am using my windows computer to record my PC games and my console games (it has a TV Card), and I am porting the scenes to my mac for editing. Heres where my problem comes in, the PC game files will only play sound but play a black picture, there saved as AVI files, and my console game files refuse to play at all, and there saved as MPG, when I click on the MPG file Quicktime says, This is not a movie file. Am I missing a plugin or codec???
 
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What are you using to edit? iMovie? You might also consider converting them to .mov using iSquint. The latest iMovie is picky about formats.
 
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Okay Good News, Bad News... I used iSquint, it WORKED for the mpg files (thank you!!!), but the AVI files were turned into audio files, probably cause it never displayed a picture in the first place. I am going to attempt to convert my avi file to a mpg while its still on the windows, then send it over, convert it in iSquint, see if that works. Thanks alot
 
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it works now!!! The AVI video file i had before must of been messed up, cause I re-recorded, sent it to the mac, and the mac played it perfectly. And once again thank you for telling me about iSquint, it helped out a lot with the MPG files
 

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