After Effects users out there using Avid QT codecs...

Hi.
I am just wondering, especially to all those Motion Graphic Designers and alike who are using
b After Effects
and
b rendering with clips from Avids with a Avid QuickTime codec or Meridien Compressed codec...
Do you have a problem or an error message popping out just before you hit the 'render' button in the Render Queue? If the audio is checked??
It is not totally disaterous but just an annoying error message, I have to turn off rendering with audio to avoid the error message.
Thanks and cheers

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Martin, I don't know if there's anything Todd or I can say to change your opinions. We try to represent how After Effects works, and why the After Effects team chose to make it work that way, in a way that all users can understand so you can get back to creative work as fast as possible.
What tends to rub us the wrong way are your assertions and accusations about that. For example:
If you guys spent less time listening to the voices you want to hear, and more time on the 'yes some time difficult to hear' but nether the less valid concerns of experienced users, you would have addressed this fundermental flaw years ago.
We gave constructive feedback whilst part of that program and none of it was ever addressed. There seemed to be a weird attitude to any criticism which didn't fit the given narrative.
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> What do you suspect is the ratio of Thunderbird (email
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America.
>
> Rough guesstimate is fine..
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