FCP movie to QuickTime movie

[Tom Wolsky]

Aside from the .mov issue, which as David said, is really simple to solve, is the codec issue. More and more of the FCP codecs are proprietary and not available on the PC AFAIK, Apple Intermediate, ProRes, HDV, DVCPRO HD, and probably others.

All the best,

Tom

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[Alexander Kallas]

[Tom Wolsky] “Aside from the .mov issue, which as David said, is really simple to solve, is the codec issue. More and more of the FCP codecs are proprietary and not available on the PC AFAIK, Apple Intermediate, ProRes, HDV, DVCPRO HD, and probably others.
“

Hi Tom,
Are you saying that QuickTime Pro for Windows, does not contain the Codecs that QT Pro for Mac has?
So apart from testing, how do we know which Codecs are missing? Is there a list?
Surely it’s only that the Windows application can/cannot read/use them.

Cheers
Alexander

[Tom Wolsky]

To the best of my knowledge, which is pretty limited on the Windows side, that is the case. There are a number of codecs which are only available as part of Final Cut Studio.

All the best,

Tom

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[David Roth weiss]

A prime example is the Apple HDV codec… What we capture as “native” HDV is really a proprietary QT codec that simply will not play on the PC side in Quicktime. At least that’s the way its been for ages, if that has changed recently then please correct me.

DVCProHD was another such codec. If that plays now on the PC side correct me there as well…

David

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[Russell Lasson]

Alexander,

This is why I was asking about what codec your FCP output was. Then we could determine if the codec was even available on Windows.

So what codec are you editing in and what codec are you using when you transfer out of FCP?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Alexander Kallas]

[Russell Lasson] “This is why I was asking about what codec your FCP output was. Then we could determine if the codec was even available on Windows.
So what codec are you editing in and what codec are you using when you transfer out of FCP?
“

Hi Russell,
Before these interpretations of meaning get too weird let me say David hit the correct drift, and fully answered what I was asking,
If you read my first post, and my reply to Rafael, I said that I used Apple 8-bit codec and mentioned that my Windows machine could easily read Apple 8-bit uncompressed, which I transferred out of FCP.
So why do you ask:-“Then we could determine if the codec was even available on Windows”

Cheers
Alexander

[Russell Lasson]

In your original post, it wasn’t clear to me if you had been using 8-bit uncompressed originally in your FCP sequence or if you were using a different codec and then converting the self-contained movie file to 8-bit.

The important thing is that you’ve figured out how to prevent rendering your file twice to have it seen by Windows.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT