• Adobe After Effects

  Still can’t import HDV / DVCPRO (mac) to AE!

  Posted by Greg Neumayer on April 18, 2008 at 10:27 pm

  …still trying to sort this out!
  Can anyone point me to a workflow to import HDV or DVDCPROHD into AE or Quicktime for a NON-FCP user?

  Is there no codec for those of us who don’t use FCP? I keep having bewildered clients in our own Macintosh family saying, “Uh, it’ quicktime, don’t you have quicktime? We’re both on macs.”
  Am I missing something? Would the most recent soft/hardware updates clear it up? It seems like a huge hole in compatibility.

  Here are my specs. Anyone else going straight to AE without FCP? If so, please give me your specs (and any other info that may be a deal-killer for me such as a capture card that I lack.) I’ve no hair left to pull.

  Thanks,
  Greg

  OS: X.4.10
  Hardware: Mac dual 2.7Ghz PPC G5
  Quicktime pro: 7.4.1 (14)
  AE: 8.0.2.27 (CS3)

  Antifreeze Design
  https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com

  Brian Berneker replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Brian Berneker

  April 19, 2008 at 12:32 am

  I sometimes use quicktime to capture directly from my HV30, using the device native setting in the preferences recording tab. This gives me usable HDV footage that I can work with in AE with no problems.

  However, I DO have FCP installed, which I sometimes use when I want to grab more than a single clip. I’ve tried my HV30 at work without any special software installed, and it still let me capture HDV straight off firewire. I might have played back the clips with VLC instead of Quicktime, so getting the file is one thing, and reading it is another.

  I don’t know if AE supports HDV out of the box, or by installing FCP, I’ve indirectly installed HDV support to Quicktime. Have you tried installing the Quicktime MPEG2 Codec? That might do the trick without having to install FCP.

  Brian

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