Adobe After Effects

We are doing a bit of Uni work which requires some editing in AEF 6.5.

For some reason however, I can't import AVI files into AEF.

My mate has exactly the same file as me, and it works fine for him in AEF on XP?

Anyone able to help out? (Other than suggesting buying XP )

What kind of camera was used to capture the footage? With some cameras (such as a digital still camera with video capture ability or DVD camcorders for example) the video is extremely compressed and not intended to be used for editing.
Because of this compression, there are only a handful of actual video frames and the rest is interpolated information.....very few applications will let you edit files with temporal compression as there just aren't any real frames to edit.
It may work on your friend's XP system because the camera used to capture the footage may have been using windows media encoders to create a more compatible file for Windows systems.

Outside of that, I am stumped.

Hi Devilboy - I managed to get it working - I had to convert the file first. Because it was an avi it wouldn't let me.

I converted it to *.MOV and it plays fine, however when importing and trying to watch the video in Realtime at 25fps doesn't work in AEF doesn't work - it goes to the 15fps or near max but that;s it.

If you double click on it in the Project window, it should open a window to let you view it in realtime.
You can also do a quick RAM preview in the Time Controls window that should render it closer to realtime.

Thanks for that - busy on other work at the minute but will try it tomorrow and report back.

Many thanks