T.V. Station and FCP bin export = native QT file?

I've got a few hundred short (15-20 second) bloopers on DVC-Pro that a local T.V. Station will be re-digitizing for me - into uncompressed QT - for me to work with at home.
I didn't want to have to throw ALL these clips into a time line just to have to export -each one- into an uncompressed QT movie.
The Tech said that we could export - right from the bins (after digitizing) and that the clips would all be in a NATIVE? QT format. I explained that my editing programs at home - are running QT 6.5 - and asked him if it would it accept this format . . . he said yes ???
Question: Is this correct? Can we export straight from the bin, and is this media type a QT file I will be able to open, or is it a FCP media type?????
I have to add a Title, and a Logo to each clip before I can display them on the internet - and since all of the programs I purchased (AE, etc.) are Mac OS 9 -
am I screwed - and have to purchase $1,000 new A.E. to be able to work with them?
I do own a new Mac Min, with Leopard - so I have the computer ability - but would just like to be able to use the clips - with the programs and OS that is currently working well.
Really appreciate any help or knowledge that you could share.
Thank you
Luke Wonderly
at videodance-cm

I understand how to get them into their system now . .
Luke, I am glad that you understand because my head is spinning just trying to figure out what you want to do. How are you going to get them into their system? What program are they going to use?
There isn't going to be a problem if they export to a QT file - IS THERE?
I mean QT is QT weather made on windows or Mac - right????
Well there may be. Like I said earlier QT is just a wrapper, the codec is what you have to be concerned with. You keep throwing around the term uncompressed, but I don't think that you know what you mean by that. Uncompressed is for working with an analog format like Digibeta. DVCPro is a digital format that can be easily captured in its native form. In FCP you do this by setting your capture settings to DV/DVCPro. But you haven't said what they will use to capture this footage so it's hard to say if it will work.
I wish one of you guys knew a cool trick to get them to export as a 6.5 edition of QT - but they're currently at 7. something
Third time, being a QT file is not the issue, versions have nothing to do with it. Codec is king. I can export a QT file from FCP in 100 different ways and only a few of them can be transferred to another computer (w/o FCP on it) and play. You must know what codec you need them saved as. Think of QT as the foil wrapper on the candy bar. If you have 3 different candy bars and they all have gold foil wrappers are they the same, or is one milk chocolate, one dark chocolate and one with almonds? Yet they all look the same.
Luke, here is your homework.
1. Find out what the TV station is going to use to capture the tapes.
2. Use Google and wikipedia to learn about codecs.
3. Post your complete system specs, drives, and software versions.
Only after you do this can we help. (and even then I am thinking that it is hopeless.)
Good Luck.
K

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The list of problems with MPEG2 on DVD as a program source is quite long. Debugging your situation is impossible from here since you are not establishing a baseline for us. We don't know that your MPEG2 file is usable, we don't know your settings for Toast and the context of your posts implies tons of unspeakable user issues we simply cannot be address in these little posties. DVD production is not difficult but it takes study and experimentation because it's not really video, it's a series of highly specialized files being create for a playback spec that is hopelessly out of date.
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T.V. Station and FCP bin export = native QT file?

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