Giving footage to client

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emondpph

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Hi guys,

I've shot a wedding and I have to give the client all the raw footage. I've transfered the cards using XDCAM Transfer for MAC. And now i've copied all the MOV files on the client's external hard drive.

My concern is: will the client be able to view these files? Her computer is a Macintosh but Final Cut Pro is not installed. What would I have to provide in order to make sure the client will be able to view these Quicktime files?

Thanks !
 
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Why would you give them MOV files? Now they can bascially never use that footage on a PC.

The standard should be to give clients the BPAV folder, and if needed, a copy of Clip Browser for each platform. From the BPAV they can make MOV & MXF, but from the MOV, you can't make MXF...

This also gets around your problem of viewing. By giving them the BPAV folder and Clip Browser, you have also given them the ability to view the footage.
 
I understand. But I do not have the BPAV folders anymore... So advice taken for next time !

But for this one time, the client has a MAC. If I give here the XDCAM EX mov files, is there a way for her to view these files?

Thanks!
 
GuyB said:
Why would you give them MOV files? Now they can bascially never use that footage on a PC.

The standard should be to give clients the BPAV folder, and if needed, a copy of Clip Browser for each platform. From the BPAV they can make MOV & MXF, but from the MOV, you can't make MXF...

This also gets around your problem of viewing. By giving them the BPAV folder and Clip Browser, you have also given them the ability to view the footage.
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Guy I open my .mov files from FCP on my PC in Vegas all the time. I used to use Vegas before I got a Mac, and now I use it to make compressed .wmv files for clients. I just drop it on the timeline and it works. I think you just need Quicktime installed on that machine.
 
It may be because you have Vegas installed, but the EX mov files are not supported by the standard quicktime (it tells you a codec needs to be purchased). This is why there is a market for the Calibrated Software XD Decode:

http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

Even with that software, it was a nightmare to use the mov on my PC, performance was around 1 frame per second....
 
Oh, just noticed you said you open mov files from your FCP machine on your PC. That is potentially a very different situation. Are these mov files you export from FCP, or the MOV files XDCAM Transfer creates when importing the BPAV folder? We are talking about the latter.
 
I just thought .mov files were all just .mov files, no matter what resolution they are. When I open .mov files on my PC they are usually standard NTSC files. I have not tried any 35mbps XDCAM .mov files.

All that being said - how can one anticipate what the client can or can't open? I say just give them what you have and let them worry about how to use them. Maybe they will hire you to transfer them to .AVI.
 
Mov is more like MXF files. Mov (aka Quicktime) is a wrapper, not a codec. Inside the mov file can be DV, MPG@HL, IMX, H.264, AVC-Intra etc

Convergent Design have a utility to re-wrap the quicktime from their nanoFlash from MOV to MXF, I wonder if it only works on MOV files captured from the nano, or would it also work on the MOV from XDCAM Transfer or the JVC HM100/700 cameras that record XDCAM EX directly into a MOV wrapper.
 
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