Open HDV Quicktime on Non-FCP Computer?

[David Roth weiss]

It isn’t going to happen the way you’re hoping. There’s more than a QT codec involved in playing native QT-based HDV from FCP, you need FCP Pro installed, which won’t ever happen on your PC. If you capture to ProRes on the fly via firewire that will work, as there is a ProRes decoder available from Apple.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

Or you can export in a common codec, like photo-JPEG.

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[Greg Booth]

Hi John,

Our Calibrated{Q} XD Decode codec can probably help you out if you don’t want to render your footage. You can download the Mac or Windows demo from our website:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

Cheers,
Greg

Calibrated Software

[David Roth weiss]

[Greg Booth] “Our Calibrated{Q} XD Decode codec can probably help you out if you don’t want to render your footage”

Well, what da ya know…

Greg,

I think it sounds like you have quite a useful tool there. However, it seems to me, you might be able to rake in a lot more sales with a lower price tag, especially during this economic downturn.

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[Chris Borjis]

[David Roth Weiss] “I think it sounds like you have quite a useful tool there. However, it seems to me, you might be able to rake in a lot more sales with a lower price tag,”

agreed.

there are so many more amateurs out there in this situation they’d likely just
work around it rather than spend that kinda dough for a read only codec.

if you charged 1/3 of that and got the word out to all the video forums
out there I’m sure you’d see a sales spike.

[John Felt]

Cool… thanks everyone for he help! That codec actually looks pretty useful, and honestly- for what I was going through that price-point wouldn’t have been a hesitation.

Fortunately I figured it out easily enough. Turns out you can just drag your codecs from the QT library into the QT library on another machine. The files open without problem.

Thanks again for the help all.

[Chris Borjis]

[John Felt] “Fortunately I figured it out easily enough. Turns out you can just drag your codecs from the QT library into the QT library on another machine. The files open without problem.”

I misunderstood. I thought it was going to a pc.

yeah the quicktime components can easily be copied over.

even intel-mac and power-mac components are inter-changeable.

[Michail Nyhrén]

Hi John!!

could you pls, send me the Quicktime library from mac?
oh, and one more thing!, a description would be nice..

[Andy Mees]

Michail

What John did was likely illegal. You’d need a separate license for each copy of FCP (either in whole or in part).

Cheers
Andy

[Pablo Apiolazza]

The VLC player opens and transcode a lot of formats, including HDV.
It’s open source, so it’s free.
That’s the cheap workaround that I’ve found.