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Around X-mas, I upgraded the OS to Leopard and had a long list of problems, so reverted to Tiger.
Ever since, when I try to start a new project in FCE, or load a previous project that I captured using HDV - Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 I get an error message saying "Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card."
I trashed FCE and re-installed from disk. Not fixed. I trashed QuickTime and re-installed and updated to 7.4.1, but that has not solved the problem.
What am I missing?

Also try trashing the preferences PROPERLY like this:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html
When you trashed FCE did you just delete the application icon or did you do it properly like this:-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301182
If you don't uninstall everything you may leave behind corrupted files that ruin subsequent installations.
Ian.

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Sorry to anyone who's seen this question under a different category, but I have to do a presentation
tomorrow and I'm freaking out that this doesn't work, I wasn't quite sure what program's fault it was.< </div>
Your fault and yours alone.
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It never made sense to me that (a) one could install Rosetta into Lion and get any results at all, let alone get an installer written in PPC code to run; or (b) if installing Rosetta into Lion worked for an installer written in PPC code, then why wouldn't an application written in PPC code work also?
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Anytime an operating system is updated, there is a chance that some of your software will no longer function 100% correctly, until the publisher releases an update of that software for the newly updated operating system. And that is what is going on here...
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