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dvcpro50 export to qt on a pc.. no go ?
We are having problems with making our dvcpro50 files from fcp work on an AE guys pc.. Shouldn’t this work, since the file is a standard qt movie in dvcpro format? He gets no picture.. but sound
Anders
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4 Replies
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DVCpro50 is NOT the common DV codec. You sould export as a DV file which should be readable by PCs.
joe
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..but.. but.. I don’t want to !!!
hehe.. I need to keep the quality. Anyone with a pc and qt who knows if qt on the pc side can actually read dvcpro50 at all ??
Anders
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I think this has been discussed a number of times in the After Effects boards, check there. The short answer is that, as incredible as it seems, there is in fact no free, apple supplied dvcpro 50 codec for quicktime pc. I seem to remember that there were some dvcpro 50 codecs that you could buy, but they were expensive and didn’t seem to work with apple’s codec.
The solution is to export your clips on the mac first, either from FCP or by doing ‘export’ from quicktime pro to animation, or a frame sequence, or even photo jpeg if space is more important than quality. Its inconvenient, but until Apple adds the dvcpro 50/HD codecs to pc quicktime, there isn’t much choice.
-z
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[zoltan77] “but until Apple adds the dvcpro 50/HD codecs to pc quicktime, there isn’t much choice”
i’m not sure this is Apple’s prerogative … the license granted to them by Panasonic may not allow them.
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