After Effects Importing Problem. please help!

[RavageXavier]

Whenever I try importing avi files into after effects 7 standard, AE issues an error message saying:
After Effects error:retrieving frame from video stream. (3)

(53::34).

Is there a way to successfully import the files into AE without converting them?. I mean converting is too much of a hassle, and the output isnt what you hoped for. I'm hoping there is a way to solve this problem. The avi files are Xvid, or so Gspot says. Also I have installed K-lite codec pak's ffdshow.

[Falconone]

I think the Xvid file is the problem Adobe programs have there problems with such files. best thing is to convert it to huffy or lagarith...

[Dravonic]

I'm using after effects cs3 and I had the same problem... seens like after effecs uses a VFW compatible codec to read files. I tryed xvid official decoder but it only made things worse... but when I tryed ffdshow (it comes with a kinda hidden VFW version for almost all codecs it has) it worked.

[Bauzi]

Hell,

THERE IS A REASON WHY YOU CAN`T IMPORT XVID FILES

XviD, x264, DivX... are all distributing codecs.

Lagartith, Uncompressed, HuffYUV (some miss here, but it would only confuse you)... are editing codecs.

So you need to convert your clips first into editing codecs. Here is a guide for doing such things:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ogetc.html

Yes you can import them with the help of .avs and ffdshow or VFAPI, but it´s slow as hell and you can always have some really ugly errors. Just convert them and everything is alright.

[Dravonic]

well thats right... for editing you'd better use lossless codecs like lagarith or huffYUV (I really believe it's not worth it to use uncompressed lol) the only problem with them is the huge filesize xD

[RavageXavier]

hmmm, ok, I'll try that. thnx. although I'm not happy about having to convert them. maybe mpeg 2 or h.264 at high bitrates can solve it. thnx for the help though