Thanks for writing back. I’m losing hair over here…
I produced a shoot that was shot on xdcam. My cameraman got the files to a mac formatted disc, along with a folder of “proxy” files. He gave those files to me on a mac format drive.
I brought all the proxies over to the PC and a few of the high res clips.
My copy of premiere would not import the large files – “missing codec” – but it would open the proxies. Nor would my PC, with either windows media player or quicktime, open the hi-res clips. (in QT it opened the clips as black – sound would be there but no image.)
I edited the piece with proxy files, assuming that I could delete the proxies and export the project sequences to avid PC, FCP (mac) or a newer version of premiere on PC.
A friend with FCP and a Mac was able to import the edl but not link the files to the full-res files.
They could also easily open the high res files with their version of QT.
So Perhaps my first goal should be to merely VIEW the hi-res files on my PC. I have QT 7 – not qt pro, which for some reason refuses to upgrade.
Do the Mpeg 4 files need qt pro to be viewed?
Thanks for the help. I downloaded clip viewer from sony but can’t find any literature on it – and it won’t import the proxy files or the hi res files.
I appreciate any insight you may have into my situation.
Yours
DAN MCGUIRE