Exporting question

[Bret Williams]

First, you’ve got some bizarre specs listed at the top that don’t match any hd footage I know. Sometimes QT inspector makes no sense. Ignore it.

Make a sequence. Drag the file to the sequence. When the seq asks if you’d like the settings to match, click yes. There should be no rendering of the sequence. Rendering is not exporting BTW. .fcp is your fcp project file. You never mentioned exporting anything from FCP. File>export.

Wait, you just want to export as animation? Forget FCP. Open the file in QT Pro and export it as animation codec. Problem solved. That’s assuming Animation is the right type of file for your purpose. But you didn’t give any other information, so we’ll assume Animation codec is what you need.

You don’t have DVCProHD codec on your PC because you haven’t paid for it. Feel free to buy it and install it. It gets installed with FCP. Most likely Apple pays for it with each installation.

[Shane Ross]

#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 these 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, XDCAM? Calibrated has you covered too:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

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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[Nicole Haddock]

I *just* had this problem and was absolutely boondoggled by it.

What happened was I got a film submission (I work for a festival) in Quicktime, he said it was shot 720p24 on an HVX-200. Great, I see that stuff all the time. I copy the QT over and it was the same specs you listed. I have never seen the 1248×702 nonsense before. I brought it into FCP, sank it into a DVCProHD timeline, and it was all distorted. I let FCP determine the settings, looked fine, but of course this had to go out to HDCamSR, so bizarre 1248 settings would do me no good. Every time I brought it into a proper DVCProHD timeline, it came in distorted, and even when I fixed the distortions, I would either be letterboxing the file in the timeline (so it looked kinda 70mm ish) OR pillarboxing it. Then the guy mentioned he had to cut it in AfterFX. Riiight. I took it into AFX, same problem.

And then I found a solution. I popped the file into a DVCProHD 720p AFX timeline. Under the view options, I hit “correct for aspect ratio” AND VOILA, the film went full frame, looked fine, despite it’s weird pixel size, and so I re-rendered out the film to the DVCProHD 720p60 codec (which is what it was originally), brought that back into AFX and bam, looked fine, went out to tape fine.

I really have no idea what made the pixel sizes go all weird other than an operator error when he rendered his film. Btw, rendering this 6ish minute film on an octacore 2.8 with 6GB of RAM probably took 8-10 minutes. But once it was kicked out, it was fine.

But, to get the film out of FCP properly, click in your timeline, then go File/Export/Quicktime, use the current settings and make sure “make film self contained” is checked. You should be good after that.