footage questions (mac/ibm issues)

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FrankCapella

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just shot an HD short on the HVX200. Offloaded to an external hd through a mac.

I have the external hd, and I have an ibm. is there anyway I can view the footage on this computer?

thanks.
 
There are two possible concerns:
  1. The file system that was used to format the external hard drive. If it is HFS, you will need MacDrive to access the contents from a PC.
  2. The other is the ocntainer format. If you have P2 MXF files, you can use P2 Viewer or the P2 Content Management System to view the files on the PC; if you rewrapped the MXF files into QuickTime files using FCP, you'll need Raylight Decoder to allow the MOV files to open in QuickTime Player. Edius Broadcast can open the MOV files without Raylight Decoder.
 
How was the external drive formatted?

What "IBM" do you have?

What NLE are you using?

Help us out with some details, please
 
IBM?!??! thats a word ive not heard in reference to a windows machine in like a decade!!!
 
it's a dell laptop, and MacDrive worked perfectly.

Another question: 1. what editing options do I have on a Dell? Footage is saved in quicktime format (.mov, I think). 2. I'm wondering if anyone out there edits on an IBM-compatible or if I'm going to have to sell this and buy a mac.
 
As I mentioned, Raylight Decoder will allow DVCProHD QuickTime files to be opened on Windows. Apple doesn't support this codec at all on Windows, and on the Mac it requires the DVCProHD component from FCP to be installed.

Edius Broadcast supports MXF files, encodes and decodes DVCProHD, and it will also open DVCProHD QuickTime files, even without Raylight Decoder.

Adobe Premiere CS3 with the new P2 patch may also supports DVCProHD QuickTime files, but I can't say for sure because I haven't tried it.
 
THoff said:
As I mentioned, Raylight Decoder will allow DVCProHD QuickTime files to be opened on Windows. Apple doesn't support this codec at all on Windows, and on the Mac it requires the DVCProHD component from FCP to be installed.

Edius Broadcast supports MXF files, encodes and decodes DVCProHD, and it will also open DVCProHD QuickTime files, even without Raylight Decoder.

Adobe Premiere CS3 with the new P2 patch may also supports DVCProHD QuickTime files, but I can't say for sure because I haven't tried it.
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Premiere 3.1 does not do DVCPROHD quicktimes afaik.

However with Raylight Encoder Pro, you can both edit and author DVCPROHD quicktimes from any windows app, and it does dvcpro50 as well.

http://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro
 
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