Avid Meridien Compressed.mov file

Can anyone help me with this. I have been given an Avid Meridien quicktime file and I have been given the codec so I can read it. Quicktime can play this fine, but when I import it into Final Cut Pro and change my sequence settings to add to my timeline it says
'General Error'
Then
'Error:Out of Disc Space'
Does anyone know how to solve this, so that I can play this file in my timeline. Would appreciate it
Thanks

I think tallguy is right. The Avid codec, when installed, will allow playback of Avid files in Quicktime player but not in Final Cut Pro. At least that is what I concluded when I once tried the same thing. I really didn't make sense in that FCP is Quicktime based software... go figure. I was going back to a DV based project at the time so I transcoded to dvrez so I didn't have any quality issues.

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