Cleaner XL FCP codecs

[Daniel Low]

What FCP codec are you using? There are very many.

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[David Bogie]

Cleaner XL is a windows application. You must have QT installed on the PC.

bogiesan

[Daniel Low]

Cleaner XL installs Quicktime or requires it to be installed as part of its installation process and I believe will throw an error if later remove QT.

I know plenty of people who have this type of workflow (cheap PCs as encoding farms) but they use cross platform QT codecs, which is what I was getting at here.

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[Tom Amici]

I do have Quicktime installed. I can process most files, but sometimes I only get the audio, meaning I am missing a codec, I assume. I guess I would have to look at the files on a case by case basis. I usually ask for uncompressed to be safe, but sometimes I have clients who need a quick turnaround and their system crashes on them. In these cases, I bring them into Compressor, but I don’t want to use Final Cut as a cruncher while there is work to be done.

-Matt

[Tom Amici]

Cleaner will recognize “Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), 1920X1080, Millions”, but not “Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), 1280X720, Millions”. From what I can see, this is the only difference between these files.

-Matt

[David Bogie]

Dan, sorry, I wasn’t addressing you directly, didn’t notice the indent on the thread till after I posted.
The OP:
[Matt Press] “Cleaner XL will not recognize FCP QuickTimes. Is there anywhere I can download a codec for this?
Thanks. -Matt”

Who knows where to start on THAT question?

There are a bunch of codecs that you only get with FCP6 and possibly QT Pro. The PC will not have access to them unless the recent QT7.6 update includes some way to see them. I doubt it, too Apple-specific. Mostly, you export from FCP to the best codec your CleanerXL will recognize, least common denominator.

bogiesan

[Tom Amici]

That makes sense. I tell clients to send me proper files, but they get lazy or rushed. I’ll just keep QT updated and jump on Compressor if necessary.

-Matt