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Slightly OT: FCP & Quicktime codecs
The question: Does Quicktime Pro have the Uncompressed 8-bit format inside itself, or is that a Final Cut thing?
The situation: We had three Macs in our department. Mine was used for editing (FCP 5.1.4), and closed-captioning (MacCaption). We bought a new Mac Pro (Intel obviously) which we are using to replace my old PowerPC. Final Cut Pro gets uninstalled from the old PowerPC and installed on the new Mac Pro. MacCaption, however, remains on the old system – which is now the dedicated captioning system.
The problem: When captioning, we create the captions referencing a DV quicktime that another editor creates, then we generate a black Uncompressed quicktime that contains the captions, and give that back to the other editor to lay over the top of his video – it works great. However, MacCaption is working around the Quicktime engine, and the Uncompressed 8-bit codec is available for export because it’s already on the system somewhere. So, when we uninstall FCP on that system, are we going to lose our Uncompressed codec for export? If we need to buy Quicktime Pro by itself we will, but I couldn’t find Uncompressed listed in the supplied codecs for Quicktime Pro on Apple’s website. Are we going to have to keep some version of FCP on the computer in order to have access to the Uncompressed codec? We want to keep this thing legal.
Thanks so much for any and all thoughts,
Nick
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2 Replies
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Go to YourHardDrive > Library > Quicktime and look in there. AS long as you don’t physically drag out the FCP Uncomopressed422.component it will stay in there. If you are worried about it, duplicate it and put it somewhere safe and return it back to that folder when you are done uninstalling.
Since uninstalling FCP is a manual process anyway, you should have nothing to worry about.
Jeremy
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Ah! Excellent! Thanks so much!
Nick
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