Quote Originally Posted by Mr_P View Post

It seemed like the AI codec was not installed, despite using the installer and codec UG installer. Eventually, I had to find the extention buried in 'Libary/quicktime/AppleIntermediateCodec.component' and copy it the the new mac - restarted quicktime and it worked....

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I've had this with a lot of machines without quicktime pro installed, copy and pasting codecs of choice seems to work nicely.