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I have some QT movies that were exported from Avid (on Mac OSX) about three years ago. The files played fine on my G5 after adding the Avid Meridien codecs to my Library. Now I have upgraded to an Intel MBP and I can't get video (only audio) from these movies even after downloading and installing the Avid Codec package for Intel Macs. I can't even get the video to play in VLC - says its missing the AvidAVDJCodec.component - even though that is one of the codecs currently in the Library!
Please help. Most of these movies are part of my portfolio and I need to access them. Thanks.

The Apple Intermediate Codec is just that. An "intermediate" step in the movie making process from the camera "source" format to a format that is editable. Most common is MPEG-2 (camera source).
Once in the intermediate format nearly any machine can do the editing (even if they can't play the file without dropping frames) in QuickTime Player.
Your older machine and its older graphics card are probably the cause when working with the 24fps rate.
You would probably get a better, more thorough, answer by posting in the Final Cut or Express Discussions pages.

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