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convert DVCPro HD QT file for “regular” QT on PC?
I captured an hour of HDV footage with the DVCPro HD 1080i 60 codec. These QT’s play nicely on my Mac G5 in Quicktime, but not on my PC (neither with Vista nor XP). Is there a codec to use to convert these files to something viewable (and still in “HD”) on a PC?
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
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Ah, the former Mortimer Heathcliff. Finally out from behind the mask I see…
You have two options:
1. Buy the rather expensive XD Decode app available at https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp.
or
2. Transcode to ProRes and use the free Apple ProRes Decoder for Windows.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Raylight has a slightly more expensive decoder for DVCProHD for windows, but it also has an encoder also. These would be worth it if you needed to do this a lot to save transcoding time.
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Yes, it is. Fully “unmasked” for several months now. Thanks again for your solutions. It hit me about half-way through burning these QT’s to DVD that they probably weren’t going to play in my PC (not good for sending to a client). As per your input, I converted one file to Pro Res, and it multiplied it’s size about 7 fold. In the future, if you were capturing HDV footage, and wanted to also send “full rez” clips to the client for possible future use on a PC system, what codec would be best to use? I had forgot that DVCPro HD is a unique codec to FCP…but hopefully will remember next time!
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv -
[J. Tad Newberry] “In the future, if you were capturing HDV footage, and wanted to also send “full rez” clips to the client for possible future use on a PC system, what codec would be best to use?”
That’s a bit of issue, as you’ve seen. I think the ticket is to send ProRes files on a firewire drive for them to offload.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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You could also download the Avid codecs. If you compress to their DV100 codec it should keep about the same file size as your DVCProHD files. Then burn the installer to the disk and tell your client to run the installer first, then watch the quicktimes.
Get the Avid codecs here:
Michael
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You could always try Photo-JPEG at 50%. I’ve had a very good experience using that for many purposes. Just remember to stretch it back out to full raster for export.
Arnie
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