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DVCPRO HD files won’t play
Hi, I’m working as a transcriber for someone and they gave me a drive with a bunch of DVDPRO HD 720p/60 mov files. But I can’t get them to play on my macbook, which includes the preview window, FCP, and quicktime. I get audio but no video. I’m wondering if it’s because the client created them with FCP 6 and I have FCP 5. Any thoughts?
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#51 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD or HDV or ProRes on my computer.
Shane’s Stock Answer #51 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD, HDV or ProRes QT files on your computer.
The DVCPRO HD, HDV and ProRes codecs only comes with FCP. If your computer does not have FCP installed, it cannot view the DVCPRO HD (or other) codec quicktime files. It doesn’t matter if it is a Mac or PC, without FCP installed, you cannot view these files.
If you need to view ProRes material, you can download the ProRes decoder (mac and windows compatible) for ProRes:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows.
If your footage was captured as DVCRO HD you can buy the Calibrated DVCPRO HD decoder:
https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QDVCProHD.asp
HDV…sorry, outta luck.
If you have MXF files from a P2 camera and you need to view the footage on a computer without FCP, you can download P2CMS from Panasonic:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/p2-hd/downloads-and-updates.asp
Or you need the other party to compress the footage into a format your computer can play, like H.264.
Shane
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Yes, but I do have final cut pro. I haver version 5 and i think they were created with version 6. could that be the problem?
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It shouldn’t be a problem. Can you play other DVCPROHD movies but not these?
My guess is your codec is missing or damaged.
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well this is the only DVCPRO files i have at the moment so i don’t know if other ones will play. If the codecs were missing or damaged how would i fix them?
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