DV from Mac to PC

Otobe · Post by **Otobe** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:31 pm

I have some footage that I imported from a DV camera using iMovie. I transfered the files from the Mac to my PC via an external firewire drive. If the footage is DV I thought I should be able to play it back on my PC. Everything I try to open the files in tells me that I don't have the propper codec to play the files. Is there anything that I can do to get my PC to be able to read these files?

milatchi · Post by **milatchi** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:37 pm

What are you using to open/play the files?

Otobe · Post by **Otobe** » Sun May 01, 2005 11:27 am

I've tried window media player, quicktime, VCL, and pretty much anything else i could think of

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:06 pm

You could copy from the camcorder directly to the PC over Firewire and bypass the Mac and iMovie. WMM2 (WinXP) should be able to do it if you don't have another NLE.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:31 pm

iMovie's captured .dv files are not standard DV files, and can only be read by iMovie or QuickTime on the Mac (to the best of my knowledge, QT for Windows might be able to read them). You will need to convert them to a standard DV file (drop onto the timeline in iMovie and Export as Full Quality DV, or use QT Pro) before you can use it on the PC.

Like the others have suggested, if you want to edit on the PC, you should be capturing on the PC. It's a lot less hastle.