adobe after effects

[sotorious]

I tried to load up a video and it says it cant accept it because its not formatted in quicktime format. do all the videos have to be formatted in quicktime format in order to work?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

No, but they should. What kind of video do you try to load into AE?

The video should also be using the DV (PAL) or Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) or even Pro Res codec (only available with Final Cut Pro).
You can use MPEG Streamclip to properly transcode the footage.

 

[sotorious]

If I'm not mistaking it's an Avi file one I already rendered out and was just goin to load it in after effects since I just got it to fart around with. It wasn't allowing me to load it in there.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If I'm not mistaking it's an Avi file one I already rendered out and was just goin to load it in after effects since I just got it to fart around with. It wasn't allowing me to load it in there.

Then do as advised.
.avi files can use many, many codecs and as it seems, the codec it uses is unsupported by AE, as many of these codecs are not editing codecs, but delivery codecs, thus not meant to be worked with in digital post processing.

 

[sotorious]

Alright so it wouldnt have made a difference if i had after effects for the pc, that codec would not be accepted anyway?