Today's dumb USB flash drive question

Hello All,
I have an SD DV clip in Final Cut. Can I download this clip as uncompressed video to a USB flash drive and then give this USB flash drive to customers to look at on their Mac or PC to watch? Will this work? Will the picture and sound look as good as it does in FCP.
Thanks for your help.
Mike

Uncompressed? If the clip was DV it is compressed already (DV compression).
If you truly gave him an uncompressed file, then it is HIGHLY unlikely he will be able to play it from the USB port. Uncompressed is about 30MB/sec of data. Heck he might not be able to play if from his hard drive. This is ignoring codec issues - he might not even have a player that supports the codec.
Maybe you gave him a DV encoded file, and that is what you mean by "uncompressed". If so, he probably will be able to play the file.
If he plans to use this clip to edit, then what you did is perfect.
However, DV is an interlaced, non-square pixel format. Hardly ideal for viewing on a home PC.
If you are just trying to give him a clip that he can look at, or maybe even email around, I would highly recommend exporting an .mp4 encoded file. Even though it is highly compressed it often looks better, due to the lack of interlacing and non-square pixels.

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