DVCPRO HD Quicktime File

[foochuck]

Hello,

A client provided me with an HD clip from a MAC - DVCPRO HD - a quicktime file from Final Cut.

I wanted to open the file in After Effects CS3 on a PC and it looks like I don't have the codec to play back the file.

Is that codec available on PC?

If not, is there any way for me to open that file in After Effects???

Thanks

[poisondeathray]

CS4 has native support for DVCPro HD

On CS3, one way to import is to use a digital intermediate. But the files are 1280x1080, with a 1.5 PAR , or 960x720 with a 1.33 PAR

[foochuck]

I did import into AE CS3 - however the file shows all white video. Doesn't look like it's reading the file correctly. It shows up as 960 x 720...

[Soopafresh]

http://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htm

[poisondeathray]

But CS3 doesn't support it natively, CS4 does (both premiere and AE). EDIT: I should mention that .mxf wrapped DVCHD Pro are supported, but I'm not sure of MOV wrapped versions.

You could use aviysnth and ffmpegsource2 or qtinput to encode to a lossless intermediate , for example. You probably have a 720p file (so 960x720 with 1.33 PAR) , so you would probably resize to 1280x720

[edDV]

A few DVCPro-HD facts and tips.


DVCPro-HD as recorded to a P2 card has an MXF wrapper.

DVCPro-HD, like DV is intraframe compressed only (approx 7x).

DVCPro-HD, unlike DV is 4:2:2.

DVCPro-HD is always 100Mb/s.

DVCPro-HD "720p" can be 960x720p at 59.94, 29.97 or 23.976 fps.
("PAL" DVCPro-HD "720p" is 1280x720p at 50 fps)

Final Cut Pro can edit DVCPro-HD several ways including ...
- Uncompressed requiring a large RAID.
- Native DVCPro-HD on the timeline using a single HDD.
- ProRes 4:2:2 digital intermediate using a single HDD.

A Final Cut Pro export in a MOV wrapper at 960x720 is probably native DVCPro_HD format but could be many other formats. If your file is other than 100Mb/s CBR, it is probably interframe compressed MPeg.

[Cornucopia]

Like Soopafresh said: "Raylight" (only decent DVCProHD decoder on PC that's NOT tied to an NLE system, but it costs a little)

...If you've got an AVID, you can hexedit the "fourCC" QT atom into their decoder version and open it up directly EDIT: withOUT conversion.

Scott

[duke65]

Hi Cornucopia,

nice idea, changing the forccs, i changed every little dvh5 in qt mov to AVd1....
Quicktime says Codec AVID DV100 now, but screen keeps blank.

What did i missed???

Roger