• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  OT: DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC

  Posted by Eli Mavros on August 3, 2005 at 7:17 pm

  Hey gang,
  We have an After Effects guy working at the office on a PC. We are working with DVCPRO HD footage and I wanted to know if there is a DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on a PC?

  Thanks in Advance,

  Dylan Reeve replied 17 years, 12 months ago 13 Members · 15 Replies
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  Dom Silverio

  August 3, 2005 at 7:42 pm

  No.
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  Eli Mavros

  August 3, 2005 at 7:46 pm

  Bummer. What about Avid’s codec? We were going to render the clips out in Animation for the AE guy, but he claims there is some RGB difference between Animation codec and DVCPRO HD.

  Thanks,
  eli
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  Dom Silverio

  August 3, 2005 at 8:24 pm

  I cannot confirm, but some have mentioned a gamma shift with DVC Pro HD codec.

  Animation is lossless 100%. DVC Pro HD is a lossy compression.

  For PC yes, the Avid DNxHD and DVC Pro 25/50 and HD codecs are available for free. Check Avid’s download site.
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  Blub06

  August 4, 2005 at 3:39 am

  I mentioned this issue over at the Panasonic P2 group. They have different answers that might help you.

  Chris
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  Toke

  August 8, 2005 at 4:04 pm

  [MPE] “Animation is lossless 100%”

  There is a lot of good losless codecs like SheerVideo if you still want to save some disk space.
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  Andreas Wittenstein

  August 10, 2005 at 2:49 am

  Animation is 100% lossless only if your source is RGB[A] 8b (and only if you set Depth to Millions of Colors[+] and Quality to Best). If your source is greater than 8 bits per channel, or if it’s Y’CbCr, then Animation is definitely not lossless.

  Andreas Wittenstein
  BitJazz Inc.
  https://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/
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  Rickets

  April 13, 2007 at 6:22 pm

  A client just gave me a clip from a stock library in dvcpro hd codec. It won’t open in my pc after effects 7… what can I do?
  Thx
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  Pablo Hernandez

  November 20, 2007 at 7:39 pm

  Hello friends.

  I’m having the same trouble, and I found out a solution.
  You can download a third software named Edius for PC:
  http://www.canopus.com/support/downloads

  This software is supposed to import DVCPRO HD in PC, and from there you can export to use in After Effects.
  I’m about to try this solution, I hope it works.

  This is so stupid, just when we thought we would have total compatibility.

  Cheers
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  Marcus Van bavel

  January 2, 2008 at 3:45 am

  Yes there is, Raylight Encoder, here is a link dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro
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  Connie Simmons

  May 1, 2008 at 2:22 pm

  Hi. Does anybody know a way to convert a ProResHQ QT movie into a codec that an Avid can read? Thanks. Connie Simmons

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