Quicktime codec for DVDs?

As well the apple DVD player stinks compared to quicktime, yet quicktime doesnt appear to have a DVD player codec? any suggestions?

QuickTime Player can't even open commercial DVD's and can't view the files on them.

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HDV Quicktime Codec for PC

Hi
I am in the middle of editing a project on FCP 5 and need to export part of it to a PC.
The footage is HDV 1080 50i and for speed I would prefer to keep it that way.
I'm having trouble finding the Quicktime codec to allow the footage to be palyed back on the PC, can anyone tell me where to find this???
Thanks
Ajay

I think you're talking about exporting to wmv. Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD is a good start. If you want better than that, check out Episode.

Best codec for dvd release

I'm finishing two extras for a dvd re-release of a film I made in 1980, and am very new to codecs and HD, would like to know the best quality transfer/conversion and/or codec for putting into a DVD release format with a digi-beta master.

Thanks for all the suggestions; to clairify, I wrote, directed and produced Ghostkeeper, am editing the extras which I want included on the DVD, so distrib said go ahead but he's not paying for it. So I'm doing 2 extras (actor & DP) on my own. I've had FCP3 (DV) for years and finally upgraded some time ago to, still not all that familiar with HD needs and requirements.
Distrib will make the dvds, he made a digi-beta copy from a 35mm film print and said all he needs is a QT file, but he's not really tech-savvy, thus my enquires. I will definitely be speaking with whomever is actually making the DVD's, they'll be re-released in a week or two.
I'm editing on FCP Studio 3 and downloaded two different files; the movie itself from a dvd straight from the digi-beta copy and the extras interview ftg comes from a Canon 5D with separate sound recording, thus having to sync it (got someone better than me to do that). I made the mistake of conflicting codecs, but still managed to stumble my way through.
Movie was released in 1980 via theater and VHS and was lost in obscurity until a cult following began. You can see my first cut on youtube at:

Best codec for DVD export for editing

If I want to burn DVDs for a client who will want to edit the footage later, what's the best codec for that?

What editing application will they be editing with?
DVD's aren't the best archival solution. They hold 4.7GB of info, and that is like 20 min of DV quality footage. Forget about HD quality...Oh, unless you use HDV. That's the same data rate
Shane

Problems with audio in quicktime file for dvd authoring

i have converted sequence into quicktime file for burning into dvd. i have am experiencing some problems with voice over which disappers and comes back later in the quicktime file when i play it. this quicktime file is made as self contained movie. I have traced this back to the original sequence in the timeline to a white line or series of line in at the top of the time line. one is for video and the other is for audio. when the first line appears the voice over gets interrupted and audio stops in the quicktime file but its ok in the timeline. when the white line shows again the voice over can be heard again in the quicktime file and audio stops again at the start of another white line. there is no loss of audio in the sequence in the timeline. so please can someone help me understand what the problem is.

thanks tom. i am refering to render bar in the timeline, upper for video and lower for audio. May be i shoud describe them as white line gaps between dark grey or steel grey bar color.
what do you mean by down mixing? please advise

Best Quicktime compression for DVD playback later on?

I have some DV footage that I had captured into MPEG-2 files on my old PC, then recently got a Mac and I want to be able to edit the footage on the Mac software I have and put it onto DVD for standard playback on a TV.
I've got the latest Quicktime Pro with the MPEG-2 playback component, and another program I just found called MPEG Streamline that allows me to convert the MPEG-2 files into MOV files that can be edited in iMovie and Final Cut Express, of which I have, and then I plan on just using iDVD to put the projects on DVD.
I've converted some footage using 3 different compressions: Apple DV 25, JPEG Motion A, and H.264 at NTSC 720x480 resolution so far, and cannot see any noticeable difference in the picture quality between the three converted files when played full screen with Quicktime, but of course, there is considerable difference between the resulting file size for each video. With all three files played back in Quicktime, there was some faint pixelation around moving figures in the video, even after setting the video stream to play back high quality.
I would like to know if there is and what the best compression to use would be in converting the MPEG-2 files into MOV files or other format that's compatible with iMovie and Final Cut Express that will result in the best quality for DVD playback. I don't have Final Cut Pro so I don't have Compressor, which I understand, has a preset compression optimized for DVD playback later on.

Nevermind, I just used DV compression and the playback quality came out just fine on the DVDs I've burned from the footage.

Quicktime codecs for reading XDCAM footage

Recently updated the software on my Mac Pro tower (circa 2008) and now Quicktime only plays audio of XDCAM footage, but not the video.
Quicktime plays regular mov, mp4 and mpeg videos just fine so I've isolated the probem to just XDCAM 1080 24p footage.
I think the codecs for reading XDCAM footage were lost or overwritten during the update, is there any way to reinstall or retrieve them?
If not what are the proper codecs for Quicktime to play XDCAM footage?

I also had a similar problem to most people here. Cannot playback XDCAM files after upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I called Apple who suggested a fresh install of Snow Leopard without upgrading the 'ProApps QuickTime Codecs 1.0.3' and copy the contents of the Library/QuickTime form the fresh install into my QT library. However, I decided to seek the file(s) that is the cause which is the AppleHDV.Component file. I copied the faulty one to my desktop (so I had a backup) and downloaed:
PerianXDCam.component.zip -> PerianXDCam.component
PerianHDV.component.zip -> PerianHDV.component
from this website: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mcfa0086/discretecosine/164630.html
Once unzipped, copy into the Library/QuickTime folder and this should solve your problem, until Apple and Sony resolve this issue.
Good Luck,
MAK

Quicktime codecs for divx and other vids

Hi guys,
I have a large collection of videos on my pc and after switching to apple yesterday I realized that I couldn t see most of the vids.
I realise that there seems to be a problem with quicktime 7 ( i have the latest 7.0.3) but is there a codec pack somewhere?
I remember the nimo pack for pc so is there a similar thing for mac?
Thanks a lot!

Clement,
The Beta DivX CODEC for Mac Tiger and QT7 can be found in the DivX Labs website at http://labs.divx.com/?src=footerdivxlabs_from/divx/mac/index.php
I haven't had much luck with it.
If you just want to play the files on your Mac, try the free VLC media player at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Quicktime codec for fcp files?

is there a way to view newer fcp files with out purchasing fcp?
any iMovie plugins or quicktime or quicktime pro codecs available?
I have fcp 6.0.6 on an old G5 dual processor runing Tiger 10.4.11, but now have a new MacBook Pro but not newest fcp and some one just gave me a newer fcp project on a firewire drive to simply author a DVD which I find I am unable to accomplish.
Any free or inexpensive solutions?

Transfer your FCP license to the new machine and upgrade?
Apple will allow that, I've done it before, for Aperture.
The new MacBook Pro quads are like twice as fast as the Dual G5 processors anyway.

NEED THE BEST QUALITY QUICKTIME MOVIE FOR DVD! THANKS FOR ANY ADVICE.

I just finished a three minute piece that will be shown on DVD and projected to a sixteen foot screen. I usually just output a self-contained quicktime movie with current settings and then compress with bitvice. While I'm happy with those results, because of the size of this screening, I'm curious whether there might be better options for output to quicktime, such as uncompressed, etc?
I've also heard that I could output as a Jpeg, or a PNG file, but I'd love some advice on what works best and the workflow, as I need to get this done fast and can't really afford the time to experiment.
Any advice would be HUGELY appreciated. THANKS1

I usually just output a self-contained quicktime movie with current settings and then compress with bitvice.
That will provide the best quality ... the quality won't improve over what you had in FCP. Depending on your source media type(s), you may have had a better quality export IF you had edited and rendered with another setting.
-DH

Quicktime Codec for use on internet

Projects that I have exported as a quicktime files seem to be giving people trouble when downloading. They are exported in h.264. If i used h.263 or
h.261 for export are those codes usable by earlier versions of QT, and would people be able to view them in the case that there only problem is that they don't have QT 7.

As enzo mentions, MPEG-4 is a viable alternative. And will make your files QT 6 compatible.
Another, perhaps more popular, codec is Sorenson Video 3, which is compatible with QT 5(or later. (Though it's a bit dated now, KenStone.net has an awesome article about compressing for the web)
Understand that with each step backwards -- QT7 (h.264) -> QT6 (MPEG-4) -> QT5 (SV3) -- the compression algorithm gets more primitive, so maintaining the same quality is harder to do (at the same file size).

FCP Quicktime Codec for Windows

I have an HD sequence that I exported using Export to Quicktime (movie is self contained); This gives me a .mov file that is uncompressed and has a smaller file size than any other way I export. I tried to play the file at my friends house on his PC but we couldn't. I'm assuming this export method uses a specific codec that my friend doesn't have. If this is the case, do you know if or where he could DL the specific codec. I googled it, but to no avail. If I'm completely off base with the whole codec thing could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks

Happy to help out, but you need to identify what cam or sequence settings you use to create the HD sequence.
HD means so many things, including HDV and DVCProHD.
What is it?
And what did you choose to export to that create a smaller movie file for use on the PC?
Because it seems you have converted the original footage to something else, otherwise the size would be the same.
You might try an export to h.264 that should work if your friend is using v.7 of QT on Windows.

General error saving QuickTime movie for DVD

I have been trying to save my Final Cut Express project into QuickTime Movie so I can put it on a DVD- it gets 30% (about 12 minutes) through the Writing Audio and Video portion when a window pops up that says General Error. I don't know if this is a computer error, FCE error, QT error or what. I tried a bunch of obvious easy fixes that didn't work. It has done it 4 or 5 times over a few days. Suggestions?

victoria Hamlin wrote:
...I do have still pics- what is a size that I can use? Will fce change the size or do I have to use another application?...
Hi(Bonjour)!
FCE will not resize stills.
So using a large one (say 4000 X 2600 pixels, common for 12 meg still camera) involves a lot of calculation for FCE to fit the size of timeline. If you don't need a such size for some Ken Burn stuff or pan or zooming, stay with smaller size like 720x480 (the size of DV NTSC format) or 1920X1440 for HD.
You can use Photoshop or even preview applications do resize your stills.
Michel Boissonneault

Export Quicktime File for DVD for Composer

My Composer wants a quicktime file of my film. I know if I export it the way that I usually would for iDVD, the file will be too large to burn onto DVD. Any suggestions about what to do? If he doesn't need the full resolution, how can I change the size & res options before I export it?
Thanks!

My Composer wants a quicktime file of my film. I know if I export it the way that I usually would for iDVD, the file will be too large to burn onto DVD. Any suggestions about what to do? If he doesn't need the full resolution, how can I change the size & res options before I export it?
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Most composers want a frame-accurate, or at least a frame-referenced, piece of video. With your extreme compression, she might not get what she needs to do accurate syncing of the hero shot s with the hero music and effects stabs.
I'd ask her for more information and I'd also think about providing a copy of your film with a timecode overlay.
bogiesan

Codecs? for DVD?

Going to be writing out about an hour long DVD, mostly of moving graphics out of Illustrator/After Effects, synced to audio in Premiere, and writing the final dvd out of Encore. All in the adobe suite, sounds simple right.
I'm having lots of troubles. Since this is a long piece I cant use uncompressed, so far the best codec I've found is quicktime PNG, out of Affter effects it writes .movs that look as good as uncompress video files, and are a tenth the size. Yeah! They look good in Premiere, and still look good if I write another QTpng out of Premiere. But Encore wont look at Quicktimes (is that correct?) only AVIs and MPEGs. I've tried a bunch of different settings for AVIs and MPEGs, and none of them look very good, except for uncompressed .avis, which I dont think I can handle when I have an hours worth of the stuff.
Any suggestions on good compressors, or an alternative to Encore that will look at the quicktimes, or anything?
Thanks

Encore 1.0.1 and later accept QuickTime MOV files. Before Encore version 2.0, they are transcoded to MPEG-2 on import. Encore 2.0 or later can import QT MOV files without transcoding them on import.
But all video files for DVD-Video must be MPEG-2, so once you import any other type of video file into Encore, it will be transcoded when you build the DVD.

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