Footage Transfer Question

[Kevin Wells]

Hi all,

I have a video completed, which is an HDV 1080/24p .mov file (I'm on a mac, FCP). I need to get a master file to someone who is using Premiere Pro on a PC, so they can render out footage for the web and other things.

I'm guessing that an HDV 1080/24p .mov file won't play well (or at all) on his system, so I'm wondering if people have suggestions on a format I can export from FCP that might be ok on a PC system (running premiere). Thanks for any help...

- Kevin

 

[Shane Ross]

Options are few if you want to keep full quality. Native HDV is only viewable on systems with FCP installed, so that is out. ANIMATION codec makes a HUGE file...but you can look at the SHEER codecs by BitJazz. They'll cost ya though.

WOrking cross platform with video is tough.

 

[Jim Kinsey]

Kevin,

I have sold small clips SD and HD in the photo jpeg format as it is cross platform compatible ( PC and MAC ) with compression set to medium. the file will be huge depending on the sequence length but this will work. You could export to a firewire HD and hand off to the editor. He could easily ingest it on his PC with this format.

JK