HVX in QT wrapper

[Jeremy Garchow]

The DVCPro HD codecs should get installed when installing FCS2.

Sounds like your install might have been cut short or perhaps your user doesn’t have admin privileges? Do you log on as a a different username?

The native codecs do not need hardware, so no it has nothing to do with 3rd party hardware as they are a part of FCS2. You can edit DVCPro HD without a hardware card, I am certain.

Do me a favor and go into your Harddrive > Library > Quicktime folder. Do you see anything marked DVCPRO HD in there? You should have several components.

Jeremy

[Steve Garman]

There are 6 codec components in the QT folder but they all start with AVID……

We are trying to convert from Avid to FCP and our editors found these codecs that allow us to see our Avid projects on the Mac, but they didn’t erase anything that was there so I guess the FCP codecs never got into QuickTime.

I installed this software myself as admin and the computers open up with no log in needed so any ooperator is automatically the admin.

Is there way to look and see what codecs are installed in FCP? I see the list of “Easy Setups” on the system drive and it looks like they are all there.

What’s curious is that If I open a new FCP project and select the easy setup for DVCProHD720p60 which is what these client files are, when I hit OK I immediately get a drop down box that says, “Where is your DVCProHD720p60 camera or deck input(not detected). Where is your DVCProHD720p60 output?”

So I assume its looking for hardware or a hardware card that I don’t have and it doesn’t do the setup for the codec because of what it can’t find.

I’m really baffled by this. Any ideas?

[Jeremy Garchow]

That means you don’t have the proper codecs installed. If you don’t have DVCPRo HD, you didn’t install FCP properly. You should see these componenets in the Quicktime folder:

AppleHDVCodec.component
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
DVCPROHDCodec.component
DVCPROHDMuxer.component
DVCPROHDVideoDigitizer.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutput.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutputClock.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutputCodec.component
DesktopVideoOut.component
FCP Uncompressed 422.component
IMXCodec.component
LiveType.component
Motion.component

[Steve Garman]

Well none of these were there. I don’t know what happened to them but they were gone. Luckily it has always been my philosophy to buy two of everything. That paid off again. The other Mac Pro had all the codecs in the right QT folder. We thought could we just copy those over to the other Mac? Thinking Windose we thought surely not, but then again the Mac likes to make things simple so we copied them all to a floder, sent the folder over the ethernet to the other Mac, copied them all into the right folder and VOILA!!! It all worked perfectly! What a relief and what a testimony for Mac Pro and OSX.
And certainly many thanks to you Jeremy for giving us the solution!
Thanks to all.

Now we’re wondering how to make AE 7 for Windows accept these same files. It’s apparently missing some codecs also because they get no where fast! We need to make these high def files SD without letterboxiing (which FCP seems to insist on doing) and we don’t know how to do that in FCP so are trying to load the files into AE7, I thought it took HiDef but apparently not. Oh well, another day andother thread! Ha!

[Shane Ross]

[audioeditor] “Now we’re wondering how to make AE 7 for Windows accept these same files. It’s apparently missing some codecs also because they get no where fast!”

The native DVCPRO HD codecs aren’t available for Windows. You are going to have to encode with some other really clean codec for this. I hear that BitJaz’s SHEER codecs are the way to go.

[audioeditor] “We need to make these high def files SD without letterboxiing (which FCP seems to insist on doing) and we don’t know how to do that in FCP”

Well, since SD is 4:3, and you want to put a 16:9 image into that space, it will want to letterbox…so that you see the whole image. If you want it to fill the screen…ala PAN & SCAN, then you can always load the clips into the Viewer from the timeline and adjust the scale larger. You have room. NO need for AE for this.

Shane

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