• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HDV 1080i captured in fcp not working in imovie HD

  Posted by Chris Borjis on November 14, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  anyone ran into this?

  I digitized a 1080i HDV tape (as hdv codec) for someone.

  They try to play it in quicktime on their mac book
  and they get audio but a white screen for video
  like they don’t have the codec.

  they have the latest quicktime, iMovie HD and Final Cut Express.

  I thought iMovie at least could read HDV?

  UPDATE:
  I’m seeing “how to” screens and notice that for these
  apps its actually the AIC apple intermediate codec they
  are using with HDV only has device control.

  maybe for lower-end machines that can’t crunch HDV like
  the big machines can.

  Chris Borjis replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  November 14, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  You got it. Native HDV support only works in FCP…and I thought FCE. iMovie capture as AIC…does FCE too?

  Always capture your footaqe in the application you intend to edit it with.

  Shane

  

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  Chris Borjis

  November 15, 2008 at 1:14 am

  [Shane Ross] “You got it. Native HDV support only works in FCP…and I thought FCE. iMovie capture as AIC…does FCE too?

  Always capture your footaqe in the application you intend to edit it with.”

  He copied the quicktime.hdv.component then quicktime could see them just
  fine and imovieHD, but it transcoded on import to AIC.

  Final Cut Express only has setups for DV and AIC.

  I’ve done a lot of capturing of HDV and DV and uncompressed for folks
  and it was never a problem until now, but I learned something for sure. 🙂

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