DVCPRO HD quicktime codec for windows

[Galisteo Cinematographer]

I am curious about this as well. We have a stock footage company http://www.hdcuts.com with DVCPro 1080i HD QuickTime clips made with Final Cut Pro HD using Black Magic. From our experience the clips are made for Apple Final Cut Pro HD edit system however one of our clients was able to convert it to use for Window PC computer editing system, but I am not sure how they did it in the end. If you do find out it would be great to post it, for I have researced for other people interested in our hi definition stock footage and have not found the answer to how to convert DVCPro QuickTime to codec that is accepted by PC editing software and hardware. I would like to post it our our website to allow people with Windows to use our HD movie clips.

[Ry Spinks]

I had this same problem. FCP uses the DVCPro HD codec seamlessly and was a great alternative to ProRes(since I am using FCP 5.1 and don’t have ProRes). DVCProHD does not work on PC’s unless the machine has some serious video codec capability, which most consumers will not have nor want to spend money on.

I recommend using compressor or Mpeg Streamclip and converting to h.264, MPEG4, or you could use HDV as most players can read HDV.

[Marcus Van bavel]

Just to provide closure on an old thread since this issue keeps coming up. DVFilm has a full DVCPROHD codec solution for Windows. To decode or playback DVCPROHD quicktimes only, get Raylight Decoder (it’s $45) at https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder

If you need to encode DVCPROHD quicktimes from windows, there is Raylight Encoder Pro (it’s $150) at https://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro

Both of them have free versions and work with any windows app that handles quicktime format.

By the way they also work with DVCPRO50.

Marcus van Bavel, DVFilm

Raylight Decoder plays Apple DVCPROHD in Windows
dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder