OT: DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC
by Eli Mavros
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Aug 3, 2005 at 7:17:25 pm
Hey gang,
We have an After Effects guy working at the office on a PC. We are working with DVCPRO HD footage and I wanted to know if there is a DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on a PC?
Re: OT: DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Eli Mavros on Aug 3, 2005 at 7:46:52 pm
Bummer. What about Avid's codec? We were going to render the clips out in Animation for the AE guy, but he claims there is some RGB difference between Animation codec and DVCPRO HD.
Re: OT: DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Andreas Wittenstein on Aug 10, 2005 at 2:49:30 am
Animation is 100% lossless only if your source is RGB[A] 8b (and only if you set Depth to Millions of Colors[+] and Quality to Best). If your source is greater than 8 bits per channel, or if it's Y'CbCr, then Animation is definitely not lossless.
DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Pablo Hernandez on Nov 20, 2007 at 7:39:12 pm
Hello friends.
I'm having the same trouble, and I found out a solution.
You can download a third software named Edius for PC:
www.canopus.com/support/downloads
This software is supposed to import DVCPRO HD in PC, and from there you can export to use in After Effects.
I'm about to try this solution, I hope it works.
This is so stupid, just when we thought we would have total compatibility.
Re: Yes - DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by walter biscardi on May 1, 2008 at 2:38:20 pm
[Connie Simmons]"Hi. Does anybody know a way to convert a ProResHQ QT movie into a codec that an Avid can read? Thanks."
Animation Codec is your best bet. Export > Using Quicktime Conversion > Set the Codec to Animation. it will be a huge file, but the Avid will be able to read and convert this.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
Re: Yes - DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Owen Smithyman on May 5, 2008 at 7:11:32 am
Hey all,
Thought I'd give a little more info about conversions and how SheerVideo plays into this issue.
Right, so DVCPro HD is a lossy codec, and it does several things in which it discards information. First, it reduces the horizontal luma resolution from 1920 to 1440 or from 1280 to 960. It also reduces the horizontal chroma precision from 960 to 408 or from 640 to 480, reduces the precision from 10 to 8 bits per component, discards additional image information as necessary in order to maintain a fixed data rate of 100 Mb/s, and introduces different artifacts than ProRes HQ.
Animation is limited to 8 bits per component; clips all highlights, subblacks, and other out-of-gamut colors as it converts from video range to full range; and makes huge files as it compresses real-world video barely if at all with its run-length encoding.
Sheer Y'CbCr 10bv 4:2:2 is lossless, preserves the full resolution, preserves the full component precision, preserves the full data range, and encodes real-world footage more than twice as efficiently as Animation. If 8 bits per component is enough, use Sheer Y'CbCr 8bv 4:2:2 instead.
Cheers,
Owen Smithyman
Technical Associate
BitJazz, Inc.
http://www.bitjazz.com
Re: Yes - DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Dylan Reeve on May 5, 2008 at 9:18:44 am
You can install the Avid codecs (free download from Avid site) on the Mac.
Once they are installed you can export directly from the File->Export menu in FCP to Avid DNxHD or 1:1 media (you should do a test with a short clip, including colour bars to test colour levels and the like).
Re: Yes - DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Peter Richardson on May 14, 2008 at 8:20:55 pm
This is just the reverse of what I want to do. When the DNX145 codec is installed in FCP, will FCP read Avid MXF files or when consolidating from MC do you create a Quicktime Reference file to read the Consolidated MXF files or do you Export the MC timeline to Quicktime?
Re: Yes - DVCPRO HD codec for quicktime on PC by Dylan Reeve on May 15, 2008 at 12:17:01 am
I haven't tested this at all. There are some links on the Automatic Duck page about reading Avid Media in FCP, so perhaps they'd be useful? I haven't really looked at them myself.
