AVI2.0 Support

AVI is not provided as an editing format in FCP.

You will need to export to a QT easy set up format.

Does it have to be specifically avi 2 or would wmv (a more current format) work?

If wmv would work, look into Flip4mac Studio Pro. It will allow you write out wmv files.

Otherwise, try to find a PC you can use.

x

Sorry if these questions are stupid ...

It's not that they're stupid, they're just not part of the FCP universe. FCP is an Apple product based on Quicktime. Everything else is a hack, kluge, hassle, or just plain trouble.

If you must export to .avi, use a PC with a Windows encoding product like Microsftw WMV Encoder that creates your specific flavor of .avi. KNow that .avi is only an architecture, there are literally hundrds of incompatible codecs for the .avi system. Your client who is insisting on .avi has temproal issues, tell them this is the 21st Century.

bogiesan

I've been googling AVI2, AVI 2, and AVI-2 all morning. I come up empty. What is it. Exactly?

bogiesan

never mind.

x

Do you have Compressor 3? Because looking in there will tell you that, no, it isn't supported. I do not find AVI anywhere in the setups.

You will have to use third party software.

Shane

The document referenced at Morgan is more than ten years old. AVI is dead, no one has buried the corpse.

AVI2, AFAICT, is merely an adjustment to the file structure at the directory level on PC formatted drives that allows interleaving more than one RIFF chunk. It's not a new series of codecs.

If AVI2 is a desired filetype, you should be using compression software on a PC. This will give you and your clients peace of mind.

bogiesan