[MacDV] MS video codec

[Mark M.Florida]

Back to the original question:

AVI and QuickTime are just "wrappers" for the actual media.  If you 
export your file as a DV stream (a ".dv" file), both Windows Mediocre 
Player and QuickTime should be able to open it.

You can also export it as an AVI file using the DV codec (from your 
editing app or using QuickTime Pro)  -- that's what it sounds like 
they're asking for.  It's not "uncompressed" since it uses the DV codec 
(but they sound like boneheads anyway), but just say it's 
"uncompressed" even though you know it's not, and be on your way.

Last resort -- put it on a DV tape and let them re-import it from that.

Make sure you clear them up as far as the DV format goes -- it's not a 
"Microsoft DV" file -- it's a video file using the DV codec in a 
Windows-friendly AVI wrapper (but I'm sure that will go way over their 
heads -- I can see the blank stares you'll get if you try to explain 
that -- Windoze slaves aren't that smart).

2 cents.

- Mark

On May 6, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

>
> Hi, I need some advice. I'm going to be doing some videotaping and 
> editing
> to be eventually put on the web for my work. They're PC based and edit 
> with
> Premier but I'd be doing it on a Mac but they want the video outputted 
> as a
> Microsoft DV/AVI uncompressed file. Does anybody know if a Mac can 
> produce
> or output such a file?
>
> Thanx
>
> Richard
>
>
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