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HDV codec with drivers?
hello,
I’m trying to see my footage captured (in HDV with a decklink and finalcut) on windows XP.
I can’t, he doesn’t see the compressor? Am I doing something wrong? Should I have the decklink card in the Pc in order to see
the footage? Is it a codec issue?Thanks
Dan -
6 Replies
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Hi Dan,
The HDV codec provided by Final Cut Pro HD 5.0 on the Mac is not available on Windows. There are HDV codecs available for Windows but they are not the same codec and might not be compatible.
If you have captured HDV material via FireWire using Final Cut Pro HD, you could play out the HDV material via a DeckLink HD card in the G5 and then capture it via HD-SDI on the PC using any DeckLink HD series card. Capture to an 8 or 10-bit uncompressed format. This will preserve maximum quality and you will be able to edit the vide on the PC without any generational loss which occurs with compressed codecs.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
Ok
thanks for the answer
does it mean there is full compatibility in SD but not in HD?
In SD, no need to recapture because the codec is compatible.
in HDV, the codec isn’t the same?! Hummm even if the decklink was used to capture the footage on finalcut pro?! Weird!
Means, I have to export the files in a recognized format in order to import in a compositing software on the pc. -
Hi Dan,
Are you using Premiere Pro 1.51 on Windows XP. Premiere Pro 1.51 has HDV support in it via a third party codec from Cineform. This is really for use via FireWire and if you capture HDV in Premiere via FireWire, it will automatically transocde to an uncompressed format for use with DeckLink HD cards. The HDV codec used in Premiere Pro 1.5.1 is provided by Cineform and the HDV codec on Mac is provided by Apple. You might be able to take the Apple HDV files in to Premiere but I would expect you will have to render them in to the Cineform HDV format for them to work. If you can’t even get that working, please let us know and we’ll do some testing here.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
thanks, I let you know
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Hi Dan,
Further to my last post, we’ve done some testing here and cannot get HDV QuickTime files from the Mac to work in Premiere Pro. On the Mac platform, the HDV QuickTime codec is only available if you have installed Final Cut Pro 5.0. It is not included free with QuickTime and I suppose that makes sense as Apple probably had to license the codec from Sony. That also means that there is (currently) no HDV QuickTime codec on Windows and so Premiere Pro won’t be able to open the HDV QuickTime files captured by a Mac, even though it has some level of HDV support. That’s probably frustrating news for you but it’s better to know up front.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
We ran into this same issue earlier this week. The only place a QT-HDV File works is on a mac with FCP 5.0. Not even a mac with QT 7 can read the video from this file. We have searched High and Low for a solution to this problem, and none has been found.
Kevin
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