Apple has made a decode-only version of their ProRes codec available for both Macs & PCs. Previously it was only available on Macs which had Final Cut Studio 2 installed. It requires QuickTime 7.5 to be installed.

For Mac:
Apple - Support - Downloads - Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10formac.html)

For Windows:
Apple - Support - Downloads - Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Windows (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10forwindows.html)

Great to know that there are now more options for delivering in the Pro Res codec (great codec) to people from the PC world or consumer Mac-users. Great move, Apple.

Apple has made a decode-only version of their ProRes codec available for both Macs & PCs. Previously it was only available on Macs which had Final Cut Studio 2 installed. It requires QuickTime 7.5 to be installed.

Nice find, Jason! Thanks for posting the link to that.

-gb-

any chance this will allow people with fcp on their machine to view hdv files? if not, does anybody know a way to do this without having to transcode?