XDCAM EX is giving me black screen of death. PLEASE HELP!

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XDCAM EX is giving me black screen of death. PLEASE HELP!

Posted by John O’brien on January 26, 2010 at 1:18 am

Dear friends,

I want to admit first of all that I don’t know very much about the technical side of video stuff (codecs, compression, etc.) I have been using Final Cut Pro for about 6 months and have produced about 20 videos, including this one: https://www.vimeo.com/8941838

I have a laptop (MAC OS X Version 10.5.8, processor 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 2 GB). I just installed After Effects CS4 on this laptop. I want to be able to work with video (using After Effects) on this laptop.

All my video is shot in XDCAM EX 720p30 (35 Mb/s VBR), Integer (Big Endian).

When I try to open this video on my computer, it just plays a black screen.

I just bought and installed QUICKTIME PRO, but this didn’t help at all.

Can someone please tell me how I can make this video work? I would appreciate it very much!

A message said to go here and download the right codec:

https://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html?os=OSX&ctype=696d6463&csubtype=78647631

. . . but this didn’t seem to have the right file (unless I am wrong).

PLEASE HELP! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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John O’brien replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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Curious Turtle
January 26, 2010 at 6:49 am

If you don’t have Final Cut Studio installed on your system, then you probably don’t have the correct codec you need to playback these files. That’s why you’re getting the black screen.

Quicktime Pro won’t give you this feature, but Calibrated Software have some software that will let. That is if you don’t have the V1.4 of AppleHDVCodec.component, which is automatically installed by FCS.

Hope that helps,
Ben

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John O’brien
January 28, 2010 at 7:15 pm

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR KINDLY EXPERTISE AND PATIENCE! I really appreciate it!!
John O’brien
February 1, 2010 at 6:43 am

I just tried playing an APPLE INTERMEDIARY CODEC video. It still won’t play. Sound plays, but the video is black. 🙁

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