I'm trying to import some HDV 1080160, Integer (Little Endian) footage into After Effects CS3. Instead of the usual white screen I get when I'm missing a codec, I get a black screen with audio. I've tried this in QT Pro and AE.
I can't seem to locate this codec anywhere online. Any help is greatly (and urgently) appreciated!
PS please be gentle I'm a designer not an IT guy
OS X (10.5.4)
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Quicktime Pro 7.5
After Effects 8.0.2.27
Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Steve Roberts on Jul 14, 2008 at 4:20:16 pm
You mean 1080/60, right?
Where did the footage come from? Another editor? Which camera? Proprietary codec, Canon maybe?
Can anybody else in your team open it?
If so, can they convert it to another codec such as PNG or Photo-JPEG?
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Mike MacKenzie on Jul 14, 2008 at 4:28:33 pm
1080i/60, yes.
I'm simply compositing some footage that was output from Final Cut on an Intel iMac. I do not have access to the staff who produced this as they are on vacation out of the country. Any suggestions?
Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Steve Roberts on Jul 14, 2008 at 4:40:07 pm
Hmph. Unless I'm mistaken, you should be able to open HDV on your computer. I suspect the editing staff messed up.
Once an edit shop gave me a D1 interlaced clip, but not before scaling it up to 720x540, presumably because graphics guys like me always work in 540. Especially when it's interlaced. Right.
However, since that's not a very useful reply, have you looked into HDVxDV?
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Chris Wright on Jul 14, 2008 at 5:41:43 pm
the file partially works because your computer found a compatible audio codec, unfortunately, it did not for the video. You need to get the exact, and I mean exact codec they used or else importing your footage into projects will get color shifts. And you need to know what color management they used too, which is most likely HDTV but could even be apple or RGb. workflow, workflow, workflow.
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Greg Neumayer on Jul 21, 2008 at 5:47:00 pm
To my understanding, you've run into a big frustration a lot of us have. Quicktime has an HDV codec, but it's only installed if you also run FCP. If you don't run FCP, like a lot of AE users, then even if you're both on Macs, you're out of luck.
Someone PLEASE tell me I'm wrong, and point me in the direction of a solution, because I'm getting really tired of telling clients that I can't take their HDV footage, even though we're both on Macs.
