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Export HDV
I have a friend who is supplying footage that he shot with his Canon XH HDV cam. He captured it in PP as HDV 1440 Mpeg. I imported it into my FCP & cannot read the file. Same with Apple’s Compressor. He tried Adobe Media Converter and made a quicktime, but his only options were DV widescreen. There were no options for a HD/HDV quicktime compressor.
First off, can he capture in any other format other than mpeg? We couldn’t figure that out.
How can we get a Mpeg file transfered into a 1440 HDV quicktime that FCP can read? DV quicktime is too small.
Sorry for the PP 101 question. If you ever have a FCP question, I’ll be more than happy to help!
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Hey Donato,
FC should be able to read the simple Mpeg 2 file. This paragraph was taken straight from Apple.com
“You need a QuickTime 6 Player or QuickTime 7 Player and the MPEG-2 Playback Component to view MPEG-2 content.” Sounds like you may need to update your version of Quicktime and check into the MPEG-2 component.
At this time it is the only capture option that I am aware of in Premiere Pro.
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I’ll take a look at this in the morning.
Thanks Danny.
-dMR -
One more thing Donato,
It looks like many Final Cut Pro users are using a free program called Streamclip to transcode Mpeg 2’s.
Download Streamclip, which is freeware. Besides doing very nice transcoding, it also functions quite nicely as a player, and it will handle MPEGs of all flavors.
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Hey Donato…
is this a Mac to Mac or PC to Mac?
Alex
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PC to Mac.
-dMR -
I did buy the Mpeg codec, but it didn’t help.
When I play the file in compressor I get bars. In QT Pro I get a black frame. In FCP I get a garbled, color emitting psychedelic frame. In Mpeg streamclip I can see & transcode the video. Why can’t my Final Cut Studio see it… I have no idea. I tried Perian’s codec too. -
FCP is just Quicktime on steroids. MPEGs won’t work in FCP you have got to convert all the MPEG files into Quicktime Mov files for FCP to like it. It’s not about codecs it’s about conversion.
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I hear ya.
thanks,
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Apple did their own thing with regards to how they handle HDV.
Not cross platform at all.
So yep…you’d need to export as something the Mac will understand…
It may be faster to redig.
Alex
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Younversity TV
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Why don’t you leave it in Premiere Pro and Export to Tape or Movie only ????????????????
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