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[David McCoy]

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:07 PM, David Vinson <d.vinson at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Katie,
>
> It's hard to guess what your problem might be without knowing a little more
> (eg video file size, etc).  In my experience trying to get videos of various
> types to work in E-Prime, most video problems tend to be codec problems
> rather than anything else.
>
> You can also do a simple experiment to test whether size matters - create a
> video that includes only a few frames of your large/problematic video, and
> see whether E-Prime likes it.  If it still doesn't work, this should rule
> out size as a source of your problem.
>
> If it's a codec problem, here's a very quick summary of what PST Support
> suggested to me with a similar problem: download VirtualDub (stable 32-bit
> version), compress using ffdshow video codec, encoder type MJPEG, save as
> AVI.
> The very latest build of E-Studio (2.0.8.79) has added a Codec Config tool,
> which allows you to render these newly compressed video files before using
> them in an experiment. Seems handy in solving such problems although I
> haven't worked with this in detail yet.
>
>
> Your problem could also be something completely different - is the problem
> movie file in the experiment directory? (or does it have the path correctly
> designated).
>
> good luck,
> David V
>
>
> On 22/09/2010 16:41, Katie U wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to load a film clip into E-Prime and for some reason it
>> won't load the movie file. I've tried multiple formats (both mpg and
>> avi) to no avail. Other film clips load fine into the same experiment
>> file, but they're much smaller. Does E-Prime have a limit on the size
>> of the movie file and that's why it won't load? Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>
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