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FCP Mac to PC oddities
hi everyone,
I’m editing a bunch of projects that are going to be posted on the internet by another company. The length of the videos range from 15 min to 1.5 hours.
Here’s my setup:
Mac OS 10.2.8
FCP 3.0.4
Quicktime 6.0
I know this is an old version but so far it suits my needs, never crashes and prints to video fine so I figure why mess with a good thing.
Anyway here’s my issue. The Internet company wants the highest quality video so I’m exporting my sequences as full frame 720 x 480 FCP movies and I’ve tried exported them as Quicktime files (MPEG 4 as well). The videos look fine when I check them on my Mac but when the Internet company opens the files on their PCs in quicktime player the video image has some alias-ing issues and “steps” around anything moving. Here’s another weird thing. On their PC if you change the file extension on my exported video file from .mov to .mpeg the video looks crappy on Quicktime Player, looks great and clean in Windows Media Player, but when you press play on Windows Media Player it only plays the first 9 minutes of a 15 minute video. After 9 minutes the video stops and you get an error message.
Anyone ever encounter this? I’m don’t know how to make it so that both the Quicktime and the WMP player plays a clean version of my video.any info is greatly appreciated.
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I usually wouldn’t advocate that you change any software if all works well (but then, there is this little issue you ARE having)… I think that updating QuickTime might be in order, but stay in version 6 and not 7… https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652formac.html It’s a dowload of the last version of QT 6… Probably worth a try.
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If you’re handing them full res files they should look ragged around the edges on motion. It’s called interlacing and computers don’t do it. Apple, being a more advanced machine, probably is doing some sort of deinterlacing or interpolation, whilst the windows macine is simply following orders.
I assume that they’re doing the web compression. So why wouldn’t you hand them the best quality files? Simply export qt movie and choose “current settings,” “audio and video,” and check to not recompress but do make the movie self contained.
Translated it means copy this video. If they have quicktime they should be able to use the clips on their machine and compress them however they want.
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