Help with XH A1 footage captured on mac need to edit on Win 7

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I wonder if anyone could help me out here. I was hired for a very small gig to help some newbies put together a music video. I had nothing to do with the shoot or the capturing of the footage. I am not really a mac person, I'm a win 7 guy and was told they captured the project is premiere cs4 so I didn't think it would be a big deal because I can basically edit on anything except final cut which I don't really know yet.

In any case, they had some pretty bad footage, but they knew it and were fine with it, and just wanted me to edit it. I don't have an HDV camera and was told that you can only import Canon XH A1 footage WITH a Canon xh a1 - not any HDV camera.. is this true? Anyway - they imported all the footage... and it appears they did it in imovie. I don't know if this effects quality or not, but we dumped all the .mov clips too a 32 gb SD card, and then I imported them into my win 7 64 bit editing station on which I have Sony Vegas and Premiere CS4 & 5.

Nothing could see the clips. They won't play in any media player and quicktime says it needs to download something more but then doesn't say what.

Can someone help me out with this?

Here is the shortest clip that was on the card:

http://blackout.com/blackout/hb/problemwithcodec.mov

The file opens but only plays audio.. no visual.

Where to go from here.. is there something I can download or was there some major screwup and they imported the footage wrong? If all is lost, do I need to borrow a cannon HX A1 to get the footage into my editing system from tape? I don't know if the used the 24f mode or not, but the quality of the video was pretty damn horrible. They knew this, but I didn't shoot it, I am just syncing it and editing it this time. They saw the quality of my hacked GH1 and immediately want to hire me to do their next video at a more pro level, but they would like to save this for themselves.

thanks,

- Blackout
 
It plays OK here picture and sound on a Mac. The sound is pretty bad too and imovie only imports at 29.97 fps. The codec is Apple Intermediate Codec.

You can also use an HV20/30/40 to import XHA1 footage.
 
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hmmm... well the sound is the camera sound, I would be laying all the clips down over the cd wave file and not using any of that sound.

I see that the codec is apple intermediate codec... but I am not sure exactly what that is or how to get it working or playing or converted on Win 7 64 bit os. I downloaded the latest quicktime.... I see no picture. Tried searching for "apple intermediate codec" windows... which brought me to a download page to add prores to windows within quicktime.. went to dl and install it, and it said i already had a later version installed.

Totally confused at this point...... do you have a PC as well or only a mac? Can anyone tell me how to get this footage playing and editable on a windows machine? again I have the latest Win 7 64 bit ultimate OS with all updates and latest versions of all media players and codecs and quicktime.

Still a no go...

HELP!
 
Save yourself a lot of headaches. Borrow an HV20, HV30, HV40 or A1 to import the XHA1 footage with a codec you already have.
 
I guess so. I find it silly that cross platform file transfers of video should be so difficult.... is this on purpose?
 
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