• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting Quick Time Movie with EX1 footage

  Posted by Dan Franzen on December 11, 2008 at 8:07 pm

  Hello,

  I have exported a quicktime movie (I did not use quicktime conversion). The movie plays back fine on the computer where I have FCP installed. When I try to open up the movie on another mac, it does not play back. Sometimes there is sound and no picture, other times there is nothing.

  The footage is from the Sony EX1 camera and was imported using the XDCAM transfer tool.

  Thanks for any help you can offer.

  Dan Franzen replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  December 11, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  You’ll need to convert the file to something that is more generic than XDCAM to play on other computers. Unless the XDCAM codec is installed on the computer, the files will not play correctly.

  Generally we convert everything to H.264 using Compressor for general playback on all computers, Windows and Mac.

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  Greg Booth

  December 11, 2008 at 9:51 pm

  Hi,

  I offer a XDCAM QuickTime Decode codec for Mac and Windows here:

  https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/XDDecodeQ.html

  Cheers,
  Greg
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  Dan Franzen

  December 12, 2008 at 10:29 pm

  Thanks for the tips!

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