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edit FCP HDV in Premiere
Hi guys,
I’m helping a friend with a short doco. She is working in Final Cut Pro, and I’m working in Premiere Pro (I’ve got 2.0 and CS4). She used a Sony A1 to shoot, and used FCP to capture using the standard HD1080i import settings.
I’ve managed to get those captured files onto my PC, however I’m having trouble working with them.
GSpot gives me this:
All I want to do is import the video into Premiere and start working with it. When I attempt this, I don’t get any complaints from Premiere, however the video just appears white. I can hear the audio fine.
When I attempt to play the video captures with QT, QT crashes.
Windows Media Player won’t play it at all.
There seems to be a few people out there having this problem from my search of this forum. Massive respect to the person who can help me!
Regards,
John
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3 Replies
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The HDV QT Codec does not exist for the PC.
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Bugger. I suppose a work around in the meantime will be to ask my friend to export the clips with a PC compliant codec.
Such a shame as Adobe made a song and dance about how you can import FCP projects into Premiere.
David, does that mean that the video from her camera had to be converted to the QT HDV format before FCP could use it? It’s unusual that it wasn’t kept in the same format/compression type it was shot on – isn’t that what happens with SD?
John
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Sort of. FCP(apple) “wraps” the HDV in Quicktime as it is imported via firewire. In the PC world we get the native HDV stream to work with. Apple has chosen NOT to release the thing that would allow a PC to see the HDV wrapped up in QT and to my knowledge no third party has done it either.
Adobe CS4 DOES read XMP files exported from FCP and does link to the video – I’ve done it and it is wonderful. It probably even links to the HDV files – but of course you can’t see them wrapped up in QT as they are so what’s the point? I finally broke down and bought Raylight’s Codecs to playback (and encode) DVCPRo HD. This is the best transfer format between PC an Mac for us lower-end folks who can’t deal with uncompressed 10-bit blah blah blah.
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