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Apple FCP DVCPRO50 codec for AE in Windows??
This is the second time I’ve had this problem come up. I’m hired by a client who edits in Final Cut Pro HD. I use AE 6.5 for compositing on a Windows XP machine. The client wants to give me a rough cut from FCP, and it’s in the native DVCPRO50 format. My Windows Quicktime will not decode it. Is is me, or is this just lame? Does Apple not think that there will be cross-platform work done with Quicktime files? My Quicktime is the most up to date version, and I’ve searched online for a codec that would let me read FCP’s exported Quicktime. I’ve tried the DVCPRO codecs from Matrox, Pinnacle, and Main Concept. Nothing is decoding the video. Can anyone help me be able to bring DVCPRO50 FCP Quicktime files into After Effects?
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I believe you’re out of luck. I just went through this with a producer who had DVCPro50 footage, and we looked high and low for a codec so the producer could do a “paper cut” on her Windows machine. No luck. We had to encode it to DV25 for the producer, while we hung onto the DVCPRO50 footage on Mac. Not the best way of working.
Ask the person with FCP to give you a DV25 rough cut. When he/she finishes the cut, he/she can send you an Animation or Photo-JPEG Quicktime movie.
Of course, if anyone finds an appropriate DVCPRO50 codec for Windows, great.
Steve
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I see that Canopus has a codec pack for purchase with their editing package. Here is the info I found:
“Canopus is offering EDIUS SP for HDV customers the Canopus Codec Option Pack, which includes the DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD software codecs. Developed in collaboration with Panasonic, the Canopus DVCPRO HD codec provides EDIUS SP for HDV with high-quality HD video and unrivaled realtime HD nonlinear editing performance with full native DVCPRO HD (SMPTE 370M) compliance. The Canopus Codec Option Pack will also allow for the direct import of DVCPRO HD QuickTime .MOV files into EDIUS Pro. Providing direct lossless HD capture and print-to-tape functions using the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A VTR in native 1080i via EDIUS SP for HDV’s FireWire connector, EDIUS SP for HDV with the Canopus Codec Option Pack is a cost-effective editing solution for DVCPRO HD on Windows-based systems.”
But at $999 for just the codec pack (and you probably have to have a registered version of their Edius SP) it’s not actually a “cost-effective” solution. What are they basing that on? The fact that it may be the ONLY solution for Windows??
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A few months ago I did some work for a client that had DCVPRO50 footage. The client exported the footage as a sequence of uncompressed .png files. When I was finished with my work I sent the output back as a .png sequence.
This worked fine for a relatively small project.
Good luck,
Doug
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