Apple Client Wants .mov

rextilleon wrote on 9/21/2006, 1:31 PM

I have a client who wants me to deliver some footage in .mov so that she can edit on FCP. Since I have never had this request, I am wondering what the best way to acheive this. Do I capture with Vegas then convert to .mov, then send it along, or is there a better way to take the raw footage and capture it as .mov.

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farss wrote on 9/21/2006, 1:45 PM

.mov is only a container the same as .avi files are.
Latest version of FCP can open avi files as well as QT files so unless your client is a long way behind the curve she can open avi files straight out of Vegas.
If that is to much for her to grasp just edit as you normally would and render to QT.

Bob.

rextilleon wrote on 9/21/2006, 3:54 PM

Thanks a million----so if I send her a HD with .avi files, will she be able to open them in FCP---will their be drive format issues etc?

ForumAdmin wrote on 9/21/2006, 5:07 PM

Assumption: this is a DV Project.

If so, FCP can import DV .avi files, no problem.

Konrad wrote on 9/21/2006, 5:09 PM

If it's an external USB or Firewire HD the PC format should not be an issue. I seem to remember Apple is dropping Firewire on a few very new models.

HTH,

Konrad

DJPadre wrote on 9/21/2006, 6:04 PM

ummer FCP dont capture as DV Avi that can be thrown in vegas.. i get lots of crap from useless editors who demand FCP, btu they dont know how to use the buger.. i choose not to know, coz i got enogh NLE;s on windows to worry bout...

as for them wanting MOV, FCP takes dv avis made in vidcap, so i dont knwo what theyre problem is.. if they still give u headaches, stab 'em in the throat with a blunt screwdriver...

ok time for a coffee...

krew wrote on 9/21/2006, 6:36 PM

^ Be sure to make that a decaf ;-)

Logan5 wrote on 9/21/2006, 7:03 PM

I convert dv avi to QT all the time for FCP users with QT Pro.
Funny how some of them assume mov files are the only & best to use.
"why do you use AVIs...ah the PC hell you bring me!" lol

DJPadre wrote on 9/21/2006, 7:20 PM

"why do you use AVIs...ah the PC hell you bring me!" lol

Im waiting for teh cry of Blasphemer

oh whats worse is that 99% of institutes here use FCP. THye re lecturers believe it to be "industry" standard.. im yet to see a news cut done on it here in aus.. but anyways.. hell ive seen more studios running Premiere6.5 with an old digisuite than ive seen FCP

The mentlaity is the level of exposure.. ie.. none...
Thye only see ONE tool and believe it to be the only way to get from A to B

Very tunnellvisioned, and a damn shame.. worth a giggle though when i hear students and teacher alike wondering how this or that is done.. and then i whip out my laptop and show then how to do it in vegas in about 3 seconds... always good for a giggle.. but still Vegas doesnt have the penetration apple have always had in schools/uni's
Gotta think back.. when apple2e was the bes knees, all scholls had them.. since then (even befre then ) computer studies were non existant.. in many environemnts, the only exposure people have is through their school.
If sony offered the kind of HW and SW which apple offers at lower prices than apple, than it would definately penetrate that niche market (and its a huge market too.. but again, people arent exposed to these other tools and are blind to the possibilites that maybe.. jsut maybe.. theres somethign out there which works a lil more efficiently..

rextilleon wrote on 9/21/2006, 7:48 PM

Thanks guys--just to get this straight. I purchase a drive for this lady. I format it Windows and capture the DV from my DSR-11. I send the drive to this lady, she plugs it into her G5 and voila she can access the avi's and do with them what she wants. The fact that the drive was formated on a Windows system won't matter?

DJPadre wrote on 9/21/2006, 7:55 PM

it wont matter SO LONG AS YOU FORMAT IT IN FAT32

From what ive seen, mac dont handle NTFS

rextilleon wrote on 9/21/2006, 9:46 PM

Yes Padre---I remember hearing that.

DavidSinger wrote on 9/22/2006, 8:21 AM

You can apply MacDrive 6 (or 7) to any NTFS computer, and it will read/write a fully Mac-compatible file from/onto any external drive. I use it all the time to move AIF from the sound studio's G5 to LaCie "Triple" drive (USB2, Firewire 400, Firewire 800), and then plug the LaCie into an old Win2k machine. Likewise going in reverse when I want to send sounds/scores to the "Nothing else works except a Mac" sound studio.

Bonus benefit: Triple backup (mine, theirs, the in-transit LaCie) PLUS backup held at 3 different physical locations (think Hurricane Katrina).

Interestingly, I am constantly harping on the sound studio engineers "Have you saved that?" during sessions, because their machines crash about 3-4 times a day, whereas mine crash about once a week, and that during super-heavy flows with MANY more tracks than we use in the sound studio.

rextilleon wrote on 9/22/2006, 9:21 AM

Thanks David, I will check it out.

riredale wrote on 9/22/2006, 9:51 AM

From this source:

"As noted, OS X (10.3, a.k.a., Panther specifically) can read NTFS volumes. However, since 10.3.5, OS X has "limited" write capabilites to NTFS volumes. What does this mean? It means that it doesn't work very well, but we like to give people the idea that it sort of works... that it MIGHT work sometime. If you want to use your PC volume "seemlessly" with your Mac and a PC, the volume should be formatted with FAT32..."

J_Mac wrote on 9/22/2006, 12:03 PM

and Fat32 = 4 gig file size. John

rextilleon wrote on 9/22/2006, 2:20 PM

Yup, thats the max on Fat32-----------I think that most of the files are under 4 gig.

farss wrote on 9/22/2006, 2:29 PM

This shouldn't be a problem anyway, all the client needs to do is read the files and copy them onto their system.