Final Cut Studio Pro 1 and HM 700 footage
 

I shoot on the new JVC HM700 and I can view and edit my footage on my system. I did a shoot for another company who uses FCSP1 and he can't view or edit my footage. His operating system is Tiger, we have downloaded the newest version of quicktime. When the file opens in quicktime you get a white screen with tone for audio as the clip plays. The same thing happens in FCP. Any suggestions on what can be done? We have looked for plugins for both FCP and quicktime but nothing we have downloaded works. Thanks for your help in advance.

Does FCS1 (FCP5) use ProRes? I can't remember but your best bet is to transcode the files into this format for them. If FCP5 doesn't use ProRes then AIC is the way to go. Remember that these are much bigger files then the HDCAM-EX files the HM700 records.

FCP5 is AIC, not ProRes as William suspects.

And the 700 records XDCam EX not HDCam EX. Darn slippery keyboards...

"X", "H", Sony is confusing me again. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain the difference between BetaSp, DigiBeta and BetaSX to clients.

The vague JVC technical specs page states,"With the included SxS media recorder, the GY-HM700UXT will record in the .MP4 format used by Sony's XDCAM EX™ onto high speed SxS memory cards." I guess I assumed wrong but JVC is very cagey about exactly what codec the QuickTime files are. I know it's a Sony HDCAM mpeg variant. If it be XDCAM EX, so be it. It works and that's great.