XDCAM EX Quicktime Movies Not Viewable on PCs??

[Greg Booth]

Hi Jason,

The Calibrated{Q} XD Decode codec is a QuickTime codec that lets you use/view XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and HDV QuickTime Movies on Windows or Mac computers that dont have final cut pro in either QuickTime Player or other applications that support QuickTime. You can download a demo from our website – https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

The codec though does not re-wrap the MOV files into MXF or MP4 files.
If you have the XDCAM transfer software you should be able to do that – (i.e. rewrap MXF and MP4 files). Is that the workflow you wanted?

Greg

[Jason Brown]

EXACTLY!

I’m trying to understand all this stuff, I come from the AVID world and have always experienced AVID providing their codecs free so anyone can interpret the footage correctly. Is this just a SONY proprietary thing? Or is there more to it?

This product should work for my workflow…I just want to be able to intrepret footage edited in an XDCAM HD timeline on a mac into After Effects I’m running on a PC. There may be a better way, but I’m not a Final Cut user and haven’t worked much with a variety of codecs…

Thank you for the link and so much for your help!

-Jason

[Greg Booth]

Hi Jason,

It’s more of an Apple thing (at least I think) – certain QuickTime codecs only come with Final Cut Pro Studio.

And yes, the workflow you describe (using XDCAM HD .MOV files in AE on PC) is where you would need the Calibrated{Q} XD Decode for Windows codec.

Another workflow is to export XDCAM HD MXF file from your Final Cut Pro timeline (using Sony’s export plugin) and you could import those XDCAM HD MXF files in AE CS4 or AE CS3(3.2 updatte needed)

Cheers,
Greg

[Jason Brown]

Awesome…I’m actually still working in AE 7.0 so it’s probably not an option.

Thanks for the link and info!

I love the COW!!!

[Emmanuel Presselin]

I found a free work around using a demux feature of DVD studio pro.
If someone interested, i will explain…

Emmanuel

[Douglas Warouw]

VLC plays XDCamEX files no worries, MAC and PC and its free.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[José Alonso]

I need sony’s codec for xdcam to see in quicktime

[Rafael Amador]

You need FC 6.0.2 or the Calibrated plugin.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Todd Vanslyck]

So let me get this straight…I’ve got to drop $149 to get QT (so, effectively After Effects and Premiere Pro) to read the hundreds of GB of footage I’ve already got. Grumble grumble.

Mac G5 2×2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
OS Version 10.6.6
Final Cut Pro Studio 2
After Effects CS4
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4d r12
Sony EX-1

[Don Greening]

Your NLE’s are out of date to work with today’s camera codecs. A little research before you bought an EX1 would have saved you a whole lot of grumbling.

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com