Prep HDV material in Windows (!) ?

Hi and sorry if this has been a topic before (can't find it, though).
A client has tons of HDV tapes that he wants to transfer to a hard drive himself and also likes to sort through the video in order to prepare for the editing.
He wants to bring the drive along so that I can access the video from within FCP.
As I have no clue about windows maybe someone can help as how to do this.
Client has no video applications on his machine (except for "movie maker" or something like that) but is willing to buy software if needed.
Can it be done or do I have to convince him to get a Mac
Thanks for any pointers.

Generally speaking, it is a really bad idea to capture your footage on a different system to the one that you will use to edit with.
Windows typically works with .avi files. Final Cut Pro works with QuickTime but can accept avi, so long as it has the codec that was used to create the files, avi is clunky to work with at best. There is also a very real risk that you will lose source timecode, making recapture impossible.
Movie Maker is primitive. It is aimed at the casual user and almost certainly cannot output an edit decision list or a rough edit with burned in timecode that you could use as a reference.
To avoid any problems, your client would not only need a Mac, but also a copy of the exact same version of Final Cut Studio as yours.
Your easiest solution in the current situation is probably for your client to go through the shots on the tapes and using the timecode information on the camera's display to make a list of takes on paper.
There are apparently ways to record this information into an Excel worksheet and use that to make the take list. You would also need to have Excel on your computer to access the information. I don't know exactly how that works, having never used this method. Maybe someone else knows more and can contribute some information.

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