DVCPRO HD file to PC PREMIER-XENA workflow help?

LighthouseMedia

LighthouseMedia

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Okay here is the deal I recently DPed a shoot with a varicam as an "A" cam and an HVX as "B" camera. The studios i shot for is PC based with Premier 2.0 on Xena cards. SO they ingested the varicam footage at 59.94 FPS through the XENA card as 10BIT UNCOMPRESSED QT movies. In the meantime I backed up my footage through FCP as DVCPRO-HD QT files. (I'm on a mac) completely forgetting the lack of DVCPRO-HD support on PC. So I far I have tried exporting my files out of FCP at 59.94 using the 10BIT uncompressed codec, and the animation codec to date they can't play any of the files I have given them in Premier. Raylight isn't an option at this point because I don't have MXF files just the DVCPRO-HD files. I also tried encoding using the blackmagic codec on my MAC and then having them use the same codec on PC also with no luck any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
cross platform codecs

cross platform codecs

yeah, this is a pain. Try AJA, Blackmagic, or Sheer codecs. I've personally used the BMD and Sheer for cross platform, dunno about Xena/Kona codec stuff just because I haven't tried it.

I wrote a blog entry earlier this year that went into details about Mac to PC back to Mac cross platform codec stuff, go through the archives to find it on the blog.

-mike, hdforindies.com
 
Mike, if I do a search for "sheer" or "blackmagic", I don't find the post on your blog. Any suggestions?
 
Mike what system did you use to actually move the files from one OS to the other, the only option I see is to migrate using HFS through mac and Install MAC DRIVE on the windows machine.
 
Kendal,

How close are the systems? If you can connect them via an Ethernet network, then the Mac OS has all the bits required to do the file transfer. You can either share out part of your Mac so it's visible to the PC or do the reverse: connect to a PC share from the Macintosh.

Another option is an external drive. The Mac can read and write to a FAT32 drive and Windows can do the same. I do this regularly.

Let me know if you'd like more info.

Regards,
Fergus
 
The systems are in different studios...so networking isn't a viable option the only fear I have with Fat32 is the 4GB file size limitation, as I will be rendering these out to an uncompressed codec to key them because of the lack of WIndows support for DVCPRO-HD.
 
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