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Viewing MOVs without FCP
Hi All,
We have two macs running FCP7 and ingesting footage from Sony XD Cams, F350/F330. On a separate mac in the production office, I’d like to be able to view the ingested rushes but can’t play the movs in Quicktime – presumably because they are using FCP codecs.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to get a standalone player to view these clips (for Snow Leopard) or if I can download Codecs anywhere which would allow Quicktime to play these movs?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Neil
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6 Replies
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It seems that VLC can play them.
Not sure if ffmpgx can do it without FC, but you may try it.
cheers,
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Hi, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, no joy.
VLC tells me
No suitable decoder module
VLC does not support the audio or video format "xdv3". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.ffmpegx gives me this:
Encoding started on Thu Nov 19 13:11:57 GMT 2009
MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
Mac OSX static build for ffmpegX
FIXME:Hardenabling SSE and SSE2 without detection
CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x16458000
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO: [xdv3] 1440x1080 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:7 fourcc:0x33766478 size:1440x1080 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
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Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
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MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
MOV: version 2 sound atom may not parse correctly!
MOV: unable to determine audio samplerate, assuming 44.1kHz (got 1)
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6D63706C.
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=272]
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33766478.
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Thanks all, that seems to work. Now all I have to do is shell out $80 – I take it there’s no other (free!) option?
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[Neil Parr-Davies] “I take it there’s no other (free!) option?”
Not without spending TIME converting the video to a codec that does not only come with FCP.
Weight the options. do a small test of converting and use the time that that clip takes to convert to figure out how ling it would take to convert all of it. If the time it would take you to convert it is worth more then $80 then just buy the program and move on with things.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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