2 Replies Latest reply: Jul 20, 2011 11:42 AM by davidbeisner2010 RSS

    Mac project file showing "Invalid Project" on PC

    davidbeisner2010 Community Member

      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?

        • 1. Re: Mac project file showing "Invalid Project" on PC
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          One possibility, from Ramesh on another thread, is Quicktime installed on the PC?

           

          The other thing I would think of would be codecs, but none of those should prevent the project opening.

          • 2. Re: Mac project file showing "Invalid Project" on PC
            davidbeisner2010 Community Member

            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.