HDV from final cut to avid at DVinfo.net

Chad Taylor · February 14th, 2006, 08:22 AM

Problem: I have captured and nicely organized 25 hours of HDV footage for a doc, all in FCP 5. Now, typically with SD, i can share those quicktimes with my AVID editing partner, and all is fine. However, it seems that there is no way for HDV Quicktimes to play on a PC. Does anyone know of a solution for this?

I have captured more than 100 hours of DVCPro HD footage and swapped it around many different editing systems with Quicktime, but HDV seems to be a headache (but we knew that already).

Douglas Spotted Eagle · February 14th, 2006, 09:01 AM

All an HDV quicktime is, is an m2t with a quicktime wrapper. I play them fine on my PC. Do you have the latest quicktime on the machine that won't play?
Keep in mind, avid doesn't use the m2t, it wants to convert them.

Chad Taylor · February 14th, 2006, 12:56 PM

Quicktime 7 Pro. I will check which .x quicktime. Do you have any 3rd party codecs installed that might help with that?

February 14th, 2006, 08:22 AM	#1
Chad Taylor Tourist Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4	HDV from final cut to avid Problem: I have captured and nicely organized 25 hours of HDV footage for a doc, all in FCP 5. Now, typically with SD, i can share those quicktimes with my AVID editing partner, and all is fine. However, it seems that there is no way for HDV Quicktimes to play on a PC. Does anyone know of a solution for this? I have captured more than 100 hours of DVCPro HD footage and swapped it around many different editing systems with Quicktime, but HDV seems to be a headache (but we knew that already).

February 14th, 2006, 09:01 AM	#2
Douglas Spotted Eagle VASST Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stockton, UT Posts: 5,648	All an HDV quicktime is, is an m2t with a quicktime wrapper. I play them fine on my PC. Do you have the latest quicktime on the machine that won't play? Keep in mind, avid doesn't use the m2t, it wants to convert them. __________________ Douglas Spotted Eagle/Spot Author, producer, composer Certified Sony Vegas Trainer http://www.vasst.com

February 14th, 2006, 12:56 PM	#3
Chad Taylor Tourist Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4	Quicktime 7 Pro. I will check which .x quicktime. Do you have any 3rd party codecs installed that might help with that?