watching HDV QuickTimes without FCP on PC and/or mac
by Jennilyn Merten
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Aug 2, 2008 at 5:49:05 pm
I have students transcribing HDV doc footage from QuickTimes but they must be on a machine that has FCP. Downloading QT pro for mac didn't help and I don't know if it would on PC. I need them to work from their laptops-mac and pc. Any ideas for a quick solution that doesn't involve re-exporting. I saw a post about a DVCpro HD codec but will that work without FCP or Avid?
Re: watching HDV QuickTimes without FCP on PC and/or mac by Don Greening on Aug 2, 2008 at 7:49:58 pm
[Jennilyn Merten]"I saw a post about a DVCpro HD codec but will that work without FCP or Avid?"
The DVCProHD codec resides with Quicktime Pro, so if your kids are restricted to using QT Player only they'll get a prompt that QT can't find the playback component. In other words it won't work. Have your students with the Windows laptops download QT Player for Windows. The H.264 codec resides with both Mac and Windows versions of QT Player. You'll have to re-encode your student video files using H.264 and distribute those files. Apple Computer uses H.264 to encode all those cool movie trailers found on their web site.
Re: watching HDV QuickTimes without FCP on PC and/or mac by Kevin Shaw on Aug 4, 2008 at 7:56:16 am
Are you saying you have HDV source material captured via Final Cut to Quicktime files and are looking for a way to play those on other computers? If so you're likely out of luck without transcoding to some other format, as Final Cut reportedly doesn't use a standard file format for HDV capture.
As an alternative for the future, how about downconverting out of the camera and capturing as widescreen DV, which might be more universally usable? Worth a try if no one has a better answer...
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