Importing FCP MOV files in CS3

[roro20]

I had a guy do a day shoot for me. WHen he sent me the shots, they were MOV files out of FCP instead of the raw MXF files. Unfortuantely Premiere says it is an unsupproted format. Any ideas on converting these files to use in my Premiere project.

Thanks.

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

I had a guy do a day shoot for me. WHen he sent me the shots, they were MOV files out of FCP instead of the raw MXF files. Unfortuantely Premiere says it is an unsupproted format. Any ideas on converting these files to use in my Premiere project.

Thanks.

The possibility that occurs to me, is whoever processed this in FCP, put it out in some form of Apple Intermediate Codec, and this may not be supported on a Windows box. After Effects, and I presume Primiere, will import anything on a Windows box, that the Quicktime on the box supports... but Apple has not created a Windows form of AIC in general. I think only Pro Res is supported on Windows boxes...

[Shooter]

Try opening them in QT Pro and converting (exporting) them to avi.

[David Jimerson]

They're probably DVCPRO .movs. The only thing that'll do it for CS3 is Raylight Decoder (http://dvfilmstore.com/raylight-decoder.html).

Needless to say, he should have given you the MXFs . . .

[roro20]

Thanks David. Got Raylight decoder and that worked for me. I appreciate your input.

[The Noble Robot]

Apple does this on purpose, to lock people into a FCP workflow. Even if you have a mac, but Premiere and not FCP, you're screwed.

I can't tell you how many clients tell me it's my fault that I can't open their locked files. Annoying.