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FCP to AE
I exported some full-res clips from FCP as Uncompressed 10-bit NTSC self-contained QuickTime movies to put into a montage at home over the weekend using AfterFX 6.5 on a PC. When I try to open these QT movies on my PC, I’m missing the required codec.
As primarily an AE/PC guy new to FCP, I’m accustomed to “uncompressed” renders that’ll open on any platform with any QT enabled software so I didn’t think about FCP using a proprietary codec to render uncompressed QT movies. Please help me avoid driving 25 miles back to the office and waiting the hour it took to transfer these files by telling me there’s a way to get this FCP codec onto a PC so I can use these QT movies.
Sorry for he off-topicness and stupidness of my question…I’m in a jam with something I haven’t had to deal with too much til now and have always found the AE COW crew to be the most knowledgable on issues indirectly related to AE and offer the quickest/best/most responses. Is the flattery working yet!?
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Do you have the latest version of Quicktime installed on the PC? If that doesn’t fix it, I suspect you’re gonna have to do the drive and use a more universal codec like Animation 100%.
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For future ref, if you want can also use codecs by manufacturers that make the codecs for both platforms, like downloading the Blackmagic codec for example.
Chris Smith
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I don’t recall specifics, but understand there are some issues with QT 7 that’ll affect my situation so I have the most recent version of QT 6 on both the Macs and PCs.
I looked at Black Magic, but didn’t try it because they only listed the codec as for XP…I’m on 2K and have good reason for stay with it for now. I think I’ll try Black Magic anyway…hope nothing blows up.
Thanks…any other suggestions are welcomed as I’m realizing I really can’t afford to lose the 3-4 hours it’ll take to get to my office, re-export & transfer the files.
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Black Magic is doing the trick with no problems so far…many thanks!
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