Suggestions wanted for best FCP export for PC use at DVinfo.net

Scott Auerbach · June 26th, 2006, 04:46 PM

I'm starting to need to deliver footage to clients editing on assorted, non-MXF-capable software on the PC platform. My initial test with providing the rewrapped .mov file from the FCP ingest isn't yielding any success so far... I can't even get Quicktime Player for xp or 2000 to play it... or After Effects to load it.

Does anyone have suggestions for the best FCP export settings to provide maximum PC compatibility, while preserving image quality? I'm going to end up running this job through a PC Avid, but I can't keep doing that forever...

Greg Boston · June 26th, 2006, 05:12 PM

Try export using QT conversion to an uncompressed .dv file format. There are PC programs that will take MOV files and translate them to AVI.

If you are going to edit on PC AVID, go to AVID's website. They have free codec downloads to allow reading MOV files. I know this works cause I have supplied footage cut in FCP to a local tv station where they use AVID Newscutter. They couldn't read the file until I directed them to install the codec package. Apparently it worked because they aired the video.

-gb-

Mike Schrengohst · June 26th, 2006, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greg Boston

Try export using QT conversion to an uncompressed .dv file format. There are PC programs that will take MOV files and translate them to AVI.

If you are going to edit on PC AVID, go to AVID's website. They have free codec downloads to allow reading MOV files. I know this works cause I have supplied footage cut in FCP to a local tv station where they use AVID Newscutter. They couldn't read the file until I directed them to install the codec package. Apparently it worked because they aired the video.

-gb-

Greg is right, you can get the Avid codecs. Or try exporting photojpeg.mov at 95%. This is how most stock footage is delvered.

Scott Auerbach · June 27th, 2006, 03:48 AM

thanks, guys. I hadn't run across anything on Avid's site about the codecs yet. I'll be delivering to a Premiere Pro/AE guy, but I use a PC-based Adrenaline on a daily basis, and it didn't import the FCP .mov file tonight when I tried it.

Greg Boston · June 27th, 2006, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Auerbach

thanks, guys. I hadn't run across anything on Avid's site about the codecs yet. I'll be delivering to a Premiere Pro/AE guy, but I use a PC-based Adrenaline on a daily basis, and it didn't import the FCP .mov file tonight when I tried it.

Go here. This is the download you need.

http://www.avid.com/onlineSupport/su...contentID=7952

enjoy,

-gb-

Scott Auerbach · June 28th, 2006, 06:07 PM

Thanks, all.
Uncompressed 8-bit Quicktimes ended up being the winning format for this particular client (Premiere Pro on xp). His system didn't accept a .dv, and we didn't get around to trying other formats before finding that the QTs would work.

Then there was the nightmare of getting it from my MacBook Pro to his external NTFS drive (which had other stuff, and couldn't be reformatted.)

But THAT's another story...

Ben Balser · July 5th, 2006, 10:05 AM

Flip4Mac, give him WMV 9 HD files as clean as any.

June 26th, 2006, 04:46 PM	#1
Scott Auerbach Major Player Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 291	Suggestions wanted for best FCP export for PC use I'm starting to need to deliver footage to clients editing on assorted, non-MXF-capable software on the PC platform. My initial test with providing the rewrapped .mov file from the FCP ingest isn't yielding any success so far... I can't even get Quicktime Player for xp or 2000 to play it... or After Effects to load it. Does anyone have suggestions for the best FCP export settings to provide maximum PC compatibility, while preserving image quality? I'm going to end up running this job through a PC Avid, but I can't keep doing that forever... __________________ DP/Editor, Sputnik Pictures \| Atlanta HD video and RED digital cinema production

June 27th, 2006, 03:48 AM	#4
Scott Auerbach Major Player Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 291	thanks, guys. I hadn't run across anything on Avid's site about the codecs yet. I'll be delivering to a Premiere Pro/AE guy, but I use a PC-based Adrenaline on a daily basis, and it didn't import the FCP .mov file tonight when I tried it. __________________ DP/Editor, Sputnik Pictures \| Atlanta HD video and RED digital cinema production

June 28th, 2006, 06:07 PM	#6
Scott Auerbach Major Player Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 291	Thanks, all. Uncompressed 8-bit Quicktimes ended up being the winning format for this particular client (Premiere Pro on xp). His system didn't accept a .dv, and we didn't get around to trying other formats before finding that the QTs would work. Then there was the nightmare of getting it from my MacBook Pro to his external NTFS drive (which had other stuff, and couldn't be reformatted.) But THAT's another story... __________________ DP/Editor, Sputnik Pictures \| Atlanta HD video and RED digital cinema production

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June 26th, 2006, 05:12 PM	#2
Greg Boston Wrangler Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: DFW area, TX Posts: 6,117 Images: 1	Try export using QT conversion to an uncompressed .dv file format. There are PC programs that will take MOV files and translate them to AVI. If you are going to edit on PC AVID, go to AVID's website. They have free codec downloads to allow reading MOV files. I know this works cause I have supplied footage cut in FCP to a local tv station where they use AVID Newscutter. They couldn't read the file until I directed them to install the codec package. Apparently it worked because they aired the video. -gb-

July 5th, 2006, 10:05 AM	#7
Ben Balser New Boot Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gonzales, LA. Posts: 12	Flip4Mac, give him WMV 9 HD files as clean as any.