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28th April 2005, 02:11 | #1 | Link |
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HELP!! DV from Mac to PC?
I have some footage that I imported from a DV camera using iMovie. I transfered the files from the Mac to my PC via an external firewire drive. If the footage is DV I thought I should be able to play it back on my PC. Everything I try to open the files in tells me that I don't have the propper codec to play the files. Is there anything that I can do to get my PC to be able to read these files?
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30th April 2005, 21:23 | #6 | Link | |
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If the extension of the files is not .mov then your chances are probably low. However I don't think Apple would use some proprietary format in iMovie whilst using Quicktime dv in Final Cut Pro. They have a .mov extension and you can play them in Quicktime player (I have never tried to import them to NLE programs in Windows, though)
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2nd May 2005, 17:13 | #9 | Link |
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I have no idea what the file format in iMovie's projects media folder is, but I assume it's something proprietary. You should export/save your file to a DV type-1 or type-2 AVI (I hope that's possible with iMovie), or maybe a QuickTime MOV. But speaking of DV, AVI should be the most common container format.
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There's no avi on Macs - they support playback of course, but you can only export to Quicktime. The contents of the quicktime file are still the same, it's DV, so no problem with that (Windows programs can handle Quicktime)
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So maybe we should watch out for a QuickTime to AVI container converter program, which can strip the DV data from the QuickTime container and save it to a DV AVI (preferrably type-1 I'd say). bb |
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