[Scott Bush]

Thanks for that, Steve.

It seems my issues are all codec-based. Being mostly a mac user (due almost entirely to Final Cut) I wasn’t aware of the “missing” quicktime codecs on Windows. I figured QT7 was QT7 and there’s be HDV and DVCProHD codecs on the windows side of things, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I can get AE on Windows to see my uncompressed 4:2:2 clip from Final Cut, but not HDV, DVCProHD or Apple Intermediate Codec. I also cannot find anywhere in AE (win) to export these same codecs. So far I’ve been rendering from FCP in uncompressed, and having my effects man give me back a TGA sequence. This works pretty well, but the file sizes are quite large (~7GB for 40 seconds at 1080i60) – so far that’s fine since we’ve been dealing with relatively small clips, but it could pose a problem in the near future. I’m also still getting a slight color change when I use this technique (the imported TGA sequence is a bit brighter than the original) but that is easily remedied in FCP.

Thanks for your input so far – I guess HDV is still new enough that it is a bit clunky in cross-platform use. If anyone else has any pointers I’m all ears! Thanks again,

Scott

[Scott Bush]

Steve and Jimmybee – have you had any more progress on this? I have noticed it before, but right now a client is really bothered by it and will NOT accept that ‘this is just the way it happens’ – scientific explanation or not… normally the client either doesn’t notice or doesn’t care, but not this one! Please, any more info you may have found (steve from looking at the samples, maybe?) would bea big help. Thanks!