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FCP/prores to Windows 7 CS4 Premiere issue
Hey Everyone, thanks in advance for the help I know I’ll get here. I really appreciate it. OK, here we go….
I shoot with a Sony Z7 to compact flash card. The camera saves it as M2T files. I have a Premiere CS4 setup on both a mac and a pc. The M2T files work great on both. The issue I’ve been running into lately is I need to collaborate with other studios that are using FCP. FCP doesn’t/ can’t import M2T files. Sony makes a plugin that allows FCP to wrap the M2T files to .MOV files via the log and transfer function in FCP. Premiere CS4 on my mac can import the newly wrapped .MOV files just fine which is great so I’ve made my workflow …shoot footage and pull from my CF card via the Log and transfer feature in FCP. I can then edit in whichever NLE I choose. The issue I’m having is when I want to finish a premiere project on my windows 7 pc. I know apple has a DEcoder and I have installed quicktime 7.6.6. Supposedly QT comes with that decoder but I can not get premiere to open the .MOV files that were created in FCP. I can’t get QT (pc) to play the files either… just a white screen. What am I doing wrong here? I’ve even tried to install the decoder from the download here… https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows . I can’t install the decoder as I get the following message…. “a later version of the Apple ProRes Quicktime Decoder is already installed on this computer”
When I try to import the .MOV files into my PC Premiere cs4 setup I get the following error…. “Codec Missing or Unavailable”
Somebody who is smarter than me… please help me out?! Thanks!
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What codec does it say the file is encoded as?
With Quicktime installed, you do not need the separate decoder installed as that was for older versions of quicktime.
The Pro Res codec should have no problem being played back on the PC, as we use these files on a daily basis with our PC.
Make sure the codec is Pro Res and not XDCAM or something else. It must be Pro Res, Pro Res LT, or some other Pro Res type.
Jon Geddes
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Once FCP rewraps files so it can deal with them…it’s pretty common that no one else can as it’s usually some proprietary thing that only users of FCP can decode (even the Mac version of QT won’t do it without FCP installed.)
The ProRes decoder won’t decode rewrapped HDV MPEG files…they’re still MPEG in their jelly-like inside, FCP just put a QT crunchy shell around it…
Unfortunately once FCP “imports” HDV, DVCProHD, and I think a few others, those files are FCP proprietary unless you buy an aftermarket plugin to read them.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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