QuickTime Codecs cross-platform with FCS?

[Rafael Amador]

Jens,
I’m afraid your Windows customers can not play those files.
IMHO the best cross platform solution is Sheervideo (www.bitjazz.com).
You pay for the compressor but the readers are free.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jens Würfel]

Hi Rafael,

if this is true – where is the sense in a cross platform client???

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Jens,
The truth is that I don’t know much about servers. I guess that Apple reserves his codecs just for Mac users. There are other solutions like the BlackMagic, AJA or Avid codecs. You can download them for free and work in both platforms.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Jens Würfel]

OK, I see from Rafael’s response to my question (thanks for that!) that I have not been precise enough (sorry – first time).

I am an Apple and FCP pro user and quite aware of the options to transport media files from the Mac world into the PC world – but that is not the point of my question.

My point is – if a windows client can be used to view media files on a mac server, doesn’t that force the QuickTime codecs on both machines to be identical? Or how else is this working?

Thanks again, Jens

[Jeremy Garchow]

Jens, you have excellent questions. My guess would be that ProRes is not available for windows users and that using FCServer, you would have to encode proxies to a windows based QT codec. Or perhaps only certain functionality is available to windows users.

Just a guess, though.

I bet you can find what you need reading though some things here:

https://www.apple.com/finalcutserver

Jeremy

[Tom Wolsky]

Most likely to you restricted to working in codecs that are cross platformed. Uncompressed, DV for offline,

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Or photoJPEG.

[Tom Wolsky]

Indeed. And many others. It would be interesting though if Apple made ProRes available to all QT users. I’m sure someone’s crunched numbers on that.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Sean Oneil]

By Apple keeping so many codecs “Mac only” and some even “FCS2 Only” (like ProRes), they’ve essentially crippled Final Cut Server. So either they provide at least read-only codecs for Windows, or they tell people “Tough luck, your clients should have bought a Mac.”

Sean