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Got an Encore CS5 file created on a Mac that I'm trying to open on my PC so that we can burn BluRays... I try to open it, and get an error message saying "invalid project file." Any suggestions?

Thanks, Stan...
I never could get the project file to open, so I tried importing the media
files (exported as bluray files from PrPro on the mac) into Encore to begin
fresh, and it always killed Encore. I then tried importing them to PrPro to
see if I could DL to Encore, and it killed PrPro as well. So finally I ran
them through G-Spot and found that one of the two m4v files was in AVC/h.264
and the other had no associable codecs. The one without associable codecs
simply wouldn't open, and the one in AVC/h.264 would go half-way and then
kill the programs. Neither would play in any media player, including VLC.
So I've got the guy who created the files going back to his PrPro project on
the Mac and he's supposed to try and render them out in Avid DNxHD (which
I've been told is a good cross-platform codec) and if he can't get that to
work (the Mac's he's on are under IT lockdown and he may not be able to
install the Avid codec pack) then to render them out as 8-bit uncompressed
QuickTime. Either set of files, I can pull into PrPro and then do DL to
Encore and rebuild the menu system using the PSD files he sent me.

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