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Posted by Todd Reid on May 2, 2007 at 8:53 pm

I’m a Final Cut Pro user that has the need to export to AVID DNx 145 codec.
I’m finding conflicting results online.

Can FCP use this avid codec?
If not, are there any workarounds or conversion paths to take?

I humbly ask the AVID folk to help a lowly FCP editor out.

Neil Sadwelkar replied 18 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Michael Phillips
May 2, 2007 at 9:50 pm

If you have the Avid codecs installed on your sysytem, the codec is available to any Quicktime aware application.

anything 24fps
Dan Riley
May 3, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Another FCP guy here too…..
Can a person find the Mac Universal versions of the AVID codecs somewhere and
install them on a machine that does not have AVID installed, like
that guy’s FCP workstation?

Dan
Todd Reid
May 5, 2007 at 2:03 am

got a link from the FCP forum, installed the avid codecs, went to batch export and viola…..I had my DNx codec.

The client that requested it hasn’t had a chance to look at it, but other than a large file size (therefore lengthy ftp) I think everything worked.

It played a little jerky on my MacBook Pro in the quicktime wrapper, but I hope the client is happy.

thanks
Dan Riley
May 5, 2007 at 4:05 am

Todd, how about posting that link.
Thanks,

Dan
Todd Reid
May 7, 2007 at 3:07 pm

https://avid.com/onlineSupport/supportcontent.asp?browse=&productID=0&contentID=10554

sorry it took so long, but here it is.
I didn’t notice that if it was universal or not, but it worked on my intel mac, so I’m assuming it is.

cheers
Neil Sadwelkar
May 25, 2007 at 2:46 am

The link takes you to a page with two downloads

AvidCodecsLE.pkg.zip
AvidCodecsLE.zip

The first is a Mac version, while the second is for PC. I didn’t check the PC version but about the Mac version…

After decompressing AvidCodecsLE.pkg.zip

you have a package AvidCodecsLE.pkg
It is date-stamped 23 Mar 07 with a ver. 0.1
Size is 8.3 Mb

The Avid MC 2.7 Universal Binary install CD also has codecs placed in an ‘Other installers’ folder. There too

you have a package AvidCodecsLE.pkg
It is date-stamped 16 Mar 07 with a ver. 0.1
Size is 4.4 Mb

There is also (on the CD) a package called
AvidCodecsPE.pkg
It is date-stamped 16 Mar 07 with a ver. 0.1
Size is 5.4 Mb

I guess these two get installed when you install Avid MC on a Mac.

I haven’t tried the downloaded codec, but the codec from the MC CD works fine. All the DNxHD codecs show up while exporting.

And I’m not sure what the difference is between the downloaded codec and that on the Avid MC CD.

Neil

FCP Editor, Mumbai, India.
Completely PAL.

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