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Need Some Help (FInal Cut Pro Movie File)
I hope this is a Final Cut question. I just moved from a PC to Mac, so I’m still a little green with FCP. I produce promo spots for a regional retailer. I used to work in Vegas and AE now I’m transitioning into FCP and AE, but I ran into a problem.
A post host digitized some footage for me that I need my graphic designer to use in AE on a PC, only he can not open the footage on his PC. When I look at the clips on my mac, they are not standard .mov files with the QT icon. Instead, they have a FCP/QT icon and the are called “Final Cut Pro Movie Files”. I opened them up in my FCP to see what kind of video files they are, and this is what it says:
Creator: Final Cut Pro
Vid Rate: 29.97
Frame: 720X486
Comp: Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
Data Rate: 26.7 MB
Pixel Aspect: NTSC – CCIR 601
Field: LowerNow these were supposed to be QT files that my designer could work with in AE on a PC, but the will not ope on his system (or my PC). Is there anything I can do to get the clips to work on a PC? I desperately need to solve this issue!
Thanks in advance,
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6 Replies
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First off, is there a “.mov” extension after the file name? Mac’s don’t add them and PC’s don’t know what to do with files that don’t have the exention.
If the .mov is there, than it may be that the codec used to encod the movie isn’t compatable with quicktime on PC (for instance, the HDV coded for quicktime is only available on the Mac. PC’s can work in HDV but they use the Mpeg files and don’t wrap them in a quicktime or AVI container.)
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The best cross platform codec is the quicktime ‘Animation’ codec. You can use the media manager to recompress your files to the animation codec and then the PC should be able to read them as long as quicktime is installed on the PC.
Jeremy
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[aumount] “Comp: Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2”
This is your problem. To use the uncompressed codec, you must have FCP installed on your system.
As an alternative, you can use the Animation Codec or download the Blackmagic Uncompressed codecs, which are available for both Mac and PC.
https://decklink.com/support/software/
You do not need a Decklink card to use these codecs.
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What John sugest you is a god solution. The BM codecs are free from the web and they work in PC. The Apple 8/10b Unc are not supported in PC.
The BM 10b Unc its got an issue with some gamma shifting but only when used with FC 4.5. Other solution is, as Jeremy says, Animation although you will be in the RGB space.
To avoid problem with the FC-QT files (the ones with the FC thumbnail) that can be not recogniced by the PC you can export a refference or self-contained QT movie from that or easier anf faster: Open your file with QT> Select all and Copy> Open a New Window in QT> Paste and Save as Sel-contained or refference movie.
Salud,
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[Dave LaRonde] “Do the Blackmagic codecs support Alpha Channels?”
No. They are based on the apple codecs and are mostly older codec that were implemented before Apple released their own uncompressed codec.
History here:
https://www.decklink.com/support/detail.asp?techID=78
Jeremy
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10b Unc and with Alpha I only know Sheer,
Salud,
rafael
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