trouble opening avi files created with ImageJ

[David Romano]

Hi everyone,

I just saved a (hyper?)stack as an avi file, but when I try to open the avi
with QuickTime, I get an error saying the file is malformed -- am I doing
something wrong?   The steps I used to create the stack were:

1. Within the 3D Viewer, I used 'View > Record 360 deg rotation' to create
a stack (automatically) named 'Movie'.
2. Then, within Fiji proper, I used 'File > Save As > AVI'.

I tried several times, with varied choices of the compression and frames
per second parameters, but all of the resulting avi files gave the same
error message:
"The movie “Movie.avi” can’t be opened because the file is not in a format
that QuickTime Player understands."

Thanks in advance for your help,
David

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[Herbie-3]

Good day David,

with the newer QuickTime versions, Apple has reduced the support of
certain Codecs. One of the now missing Codecs is that for WRAW in
avi-Container which is what you would need for IJ-non-compressed avi movies.

There are ways around this problem. Just do a web-search for "QuickTime
& WRAW". One solution mentioned there is to install an older QuickTime
version.

"VLC" and "WMV Player" (Flip4Mac) play WRAW in avi-Container.

HTH

Herbie

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On 26.07.13 22:58, David Romano wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just saved a (hyper?)stack as an avi file, but when I try to open the avi
> with QuickTime, I get an error saying the file is malformed -- am I doing
> something wrong?   The steps I used to create the stack were:
>
> 1. Within the 3D Viewer, I used 'View > Record 360 deg rotation' to create
> a stack (automatically) named 'Movie'.
> 2. Then, within Fiji proper, I used 'File > Save As > AVI'.
>
> I tried several times, with varied choices of the compression and frames
> per second parameters, but all of the resulting avi files gave the same
> error message:
> "The movie “Movie.avi” can’t be opened because the file is not in a format
> that QuickTime Player understands."
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> David
>
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[David Romano]

Thanks, Herbie.  I was hoping to be able to include the avi file as video
for a journal submission, so wasn't thinking just about me viewing the file
-- I hadn't realized this might be an obstacle to public viewing, so your
response has been very helpful.  I'll post another inquiry to see whether
there are alternative ways to convert a stack to video.

Many thanks,
David

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Herbie <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Good day David,
>
> with the newer QuickTime versions, Apple has reduced the support of
> certain Codecs. One of the now missing Codecs is that for WRAW in
> avi-Container which is what you would need for IJ-non-compressed avi movies.
>
> There are ways around this problem. Just do a web-search for "QuickTime &
> WRAW". One solution mentioned there is to install an older QuickTime
> version.
>
> "VLC" and "WMV Player" (Flip4Mac) play WRAW in avi-Container.
>
> HTH
>
> Herbie
>
> ______________________________**________
>
> On 26.07.13 22:58, David Romano wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I just saved a (hyper?)stack as an avi file, but when I try to open the
>> avi
>> with QuickTime, I get an error saying the file is malformed -- am I doing
>> something wrong?   The steps I used to create the stack were:
>>
>> 1. Within the 3D Viewer, I used 'View > Record 360 deg rotation' to create
>> a stack (automatically) named 'Movie'.
>> 2. Then, within Fiji proper, I used 'File > Save As > AVI'.
>>
>> I tried several times, with varied choices of the compression and frames
>> per second parameters, but all of the resulting avi files gave the same
>> error message:
>> "The movie “Movie.avi” can’t be opened because the file is not in a format
>> that QuickTime Player understands."
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>> David
>>
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>>
>>
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