Imageready Cs2 Problem

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  1. D4rX

    D4rX Well-Known Member

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    I've been using IR CS2 for quite some time now to create animated gifs from avi videos but recently (few weeks), IR is no longer able to 'read' the videos. Normally, I could right click on a small avi clip and select open with ImageReady. Then IR would have a preview of that video, then you'd select how much of the video you wanted and it would split it up into frames.

    That is where the problem lies. The area where the video preview should be is blank gray. Then if I check 'From beginning to end' and hit OK, all the frames are just filled black. <_<

    The only things I remember doing between the times IR worked and stopped working was updating CCCP, DivX, and the Itunes/Quicktime update bundle. I'm not sure if its related but could be.

    I've already tried un/reinstalling CS2, downgrading/ un/reinstalling CCCP, un/reinstalling DivX, downgrading/reinstalling Quicktime.

    I did try out Fireworks CS3, but it doesn't seem to have the capabilities of easy avi to gif converting that IR does, so I just don't use it.

    I'm outa ideas...help?



    For the TL;DR people - My ImageReady doesn't read avi files correctly anymore, help.
     
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    CCCP is a codex pack that most anime watchers use, been using it since forever
    http://cccp-project.net/

    I have tried importing mov files as well with the same result.


    From the Sherlock program I got three broken codecs:
    1.EA VP60 Simple Decoder
    2.EA VP61 Advanced Decoder
    3.ffdshow Video Codec

    When i click on them in the program it says I do not have the driver file for the codecs.
     
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    what I would do is install ffdshow here is the newest version http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941
    ffdshow will decode most video formats avi,xvid,divx,mp4, mpeg1,mpeg2, h.2.64 etc. after installing reboot and try opening and avi file with IR. If that works then install itunes also you shouldnt have to install Divx codec since ffdshow can decode divx files. I hope that works for you
     
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    it's probably because of the QT update you did........the same thing happened to me a while back but i updated QT and that actually solved the problem (which is opposite of your problem :P )

    when you uninstall QT and Divx make sure you do it through the Control Panel and not the uninstaller that comes with it
     
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    Okay I installed the ffdshow and it did fix the error found by Sherlock but it had no affect to my ImageReady problem.

    Then I uninstalled Itunes and Quicktime from my Control Panel. Since I tried this out once before I didn't reinstall the programs. I'm thinking that it's something related to Quicktime like .HaVoC. suggested because when you open avi files in IR they are usually shown in the Quicktime embedded video player.

    Now does anyone have a link to an earlier version of the Itunes+Quicktime bundle? iirc v6 was working for me and when I upgraded to the newest (v7) it did not.
     

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