.mov files with alpha channels won't import on Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Sorry, please clarify if you are complaining about Quicktime, Adobe Premier or After Efects?

,mov is just a container like many others. What counts is the format/codec of the files they contain.

I am getting the same issue with Mavericks and AE CC...Here are some of my symptoms, the alpha channel .mov (exported from AE RGB+Alpha as well as other alpha channel .mov's) can't be previewed (it shows up as a 0kb file). However, if I double clck on the file will open in quicktime but only after it is converted to a non-alpha channel file. Secondly, when I opened AE CC there was a warning that my Mac didn'y have quicktime and thus some files would not function properly. But here is the most bizzare aspect...I have AE CS 5.5 and CS 3 both of those programs will open the alpha channel .mov just fine. What is up!

What is up!

Based on my tests, it appears that the Mavericks embedded QT structure no longer considers many of the legacy compression formats to be supported under Mavericks. These formats were, by default, turned off under Lion and Mountain Lion which may indicate that Apple intends to drop even passive native support sometime in the future. Files containing Animation or PNG compressed data are no longer QL compatible and now force automatic QT X v10.3 conversion as mentioned above. Even worse, it appears other commonly used fomats like DV/DV in DV and AIC/PCM in MOV are also being relegated to this group. Luckily, DV/PCM in MOV, HDV/PCM in MOV, and ProRes422/PCM in MOV, along with all of my H.264/AAC/AC3/Chapter M4V distribution/iTunes managed files remain fully compatible with both QL and QT X v10.3 under Maverisks. This last is significant for me since many files containing AC3 as the primary audio stream are no longer QL/QT X v10.3 compatible with certain file extensions and/or container types which now appear to be checked in specific situations. Unfortunatly, what we've seen and learned thus far seems to be just the "tip of the iceberge."

There is another discussion allready. I would suggest everybody send feedback. This is a big problem for people like me need to edit and export in Animation Codec uncompressed. This was allways part of OSX and i believe should allways work out of the box.

I wouldn't have problem to start using Apple Proress 444 from now on, allthough i see that there might be a short convertion (smaller file) etc but i have allready SO MANY videos that will need to be converted!?

Here is the discussion : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5470956?answerId=23530362022#23530362022&ac_cid=tw123456#23530362

for the love of God, how can Apple do this?

A large proportion of consumers use apples to work.

Will we have to migrate to Windows? Or let's pray sugir another Steve Jobs to create a new tool, because Apple actually lost track of what you are doing!

Fix it soon please! I've lost a lot of time having to play. mov into software like premiere and after!

Fix it soon please! I've lost a lot of time having to play. mov into software like premiere and after!

Just wanted to make sure you know this is a user-to-user forum and that such comments should be made directly to Apple using feedback.

I.e., via the appropriate Product Feedback Page form.

This is a HUGE, HUGE problem for all pro users of Apple products, I work with CG Animations and SFX and I absolutely depend on this. I don't know why Apple do this, was the same thing when QT X came for the first time and they embedded the playback inside the viewer, so you couldn't review a frame by frame video without seeing the playback control. But this is even worst, I have over 6TB of data in MOV files, and just can't afford the time to convert all of this even for just preview them. Another kick in the nuts was loosing the ability to export for web. Thanks God I never erased QT 7 of my machine. I don't hope Apple fix this, I demand it!

I don't hope Apple fix this, I demand it!

I hope you are posting feedback to Apple regarding the issue. At this point it is unclear whether or not this is just a programming oversite, a bug, or a deliberate exclusion of certain video codecs. Since codecs include Animation, PNG, AIC, some ProRes 422 codecs, and DV stream files, I find it hard to believe that Apple really intended to eliminate all of these video editor specific compression formats in one fell swoop.

You bet!, I already wrote them in the proper QT feedback.

Hey .. Not to worry the problem is not only on Macs it's also on Windows.

My computer started to do that out of the blue with some alpha channel .movs i've tried to import in after effects

I am also having this issue after updating to Mavericks and I have AE CS6 and PP CS6 as well as QT 10 and QT 7 Pro. I always use the animation codec out of AE and import that into PP with the alpha channel and now I can't. Has anyone come up with a workaround for this??? Alternative codec perhaps?