Quicktime Movie HELP!!

I am running Final Pro 6 and have a DVCPRO HD 1080/60 timeline. When I export to quicktime movie, it plays fine in the quicktime player on the Mac. However, when I transfer the file over to my PC, where I am running After Effects, it does not play in quicktime, nor does it display anything when I import the file into After Effects. I have all the latest updates for the player and the software. Do I need to export in another format out of FCP6 to import it into After Effects running on a PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ray

Two ways to do this:
Trash your render files for the sequence in question - I'd suggest selecting all clips, Command-A then pressing Control-B twice to disable, then renable your clips.
Then File > Export > QT Conversion.
The QT dialog, once you've selecting the File to QuickTime Movie setting, hit the Options button.
In the Movie Settings dialog, hit the Settings button, then select Animation as your Compression Type. In case it doesn't do this automatically, set Depth to Millions of Colors+ and exit the Compression Settings dialog
Now, back in the Movie Settings dialog, hit the Size button and select the HD 1920x1080 setting. No other options in the Size dialog should be active.
Get back to the Save dialog in QT Conversion and save your movie. Since it has to render out your timeline in Animation while it saves, this might take a while.
Or, alter your Sequence Settings so that your Compressor is set to Animation (be sure to click on the Advanced Options and set Color Depth to Millions of Colors+) and then render.
You can then do a File > Export > QuickTime Movie at Current Settings.
Once your movie is rendered and exported, since you're working with DVCProHD, you'll need to open your movie in QT Pro, press Command-J, then alter Visual Settings to 1920x1080 to correct the frame size.
One thing to be aware of: depending on the file system your PC is using, you might be limited to a file size of 2GB (if it's NTFS, I believe) or 4GB (if it's FAT32) and that's real issue because Animation codec files are not lean.

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