#Perian xdcam component windows 7#

I bought a Windows 7 laptop for work, it's a good enough machine to edit video with i5 2.66, 6 gigs memory.

#Perian xdcam component install#

I did have to install codec packs with all the XP machines and they worked fine.

#Perian xdcam component driver#

Had a friend who is a repair tech look for a driver but he couldn't find what it needed. I bought a quadcore desktop and was going to set that up for editing but since it originally came with vista and I put XP in it, there were problems with the video. I had a desktop that had a P4 in it, that worked great but had to take it back to the shop to run XP programs. Had a couple of shops look at it and their best answer was a bottleneck, somewhere. Then came across an HP Dv9000, every time I tried to render video something else would pop up and it took 8 hours or more to render 15 minutes of video. My desktop wasn't mmx3 capable so I couldn't install the software. I bought an adapter for another laptop but it wouldn't read the camera thru the adapter. The first computer I tried was a Gateway 450sx4, it wouldn't render the video not enough memory cpu not big enough.

#Perian xdcam component pro#

Since I'm familiar with Adobe software for business I used Premier Pro versions 1.5, 3, and 4. I have a Canon Optura Xi that takes beautiful video on mini DV cassette. Is it the same on Mac's?ĭepends on what you mean by 'several issues.' Can you provide an example? I've tried using PC's for video editing and have ran into several issues with codecs. In those cases you're probably just best off using an open source utility like ffmpeg to convert it to something more accessible, like ProRes, DNxHD, or JPEG-2000. And more esoteric ones, like Intel's Indeo, really don't exist any more for QuickTime as we know it. You'll still need Sony's software to use their XDCAM codec, for example. However this doesn't mean you won't need to get third party codecs to access other content. Otherwise, if you have a problem with any codec, you just jump into /Library/QuickTime/ and delete it or move it somewhere else. Fortunately enough it has its own panel in the Control Panel with a button that will allow you to disable it without uninstalling it. That provides a wide range of file format and audio/video codec compatibility, but has been known to cause issues with some programs. Perian is an open sourced codec package based on ffmpeg code, if I remember correctly. Avid provides their DNxHD codec in an 'LE' package (which basically is their entire collection of codecs, minus MPEG-IMX, which you shouldn't need unless you have a mess of IMX cassettes which I doubt you do, since they run like $20 a pop) for free. Most codecs are provided by way of a Package Installer (much like a Windows Installation Wizard, but more standardized) that just drops a component into /Library/QuickTime/. Your standard codecs are going to be a ProRes decoder (encoding requires you to have a Pro App of some sort, usually Final Cut Pro or Compressor will provide this), MPEG-2 decoder (encoding requires an additional license), DV codecs (DV, DVCPro, DV50, and various flavors of DVCPro HD), MPEG-4 (including H.264 and AAC), MPEG-1, and a handful of other various codecs (like QualComm PureVoice, AMR-NB, H.263, and so forth). Individual codecs are stored in QuickTime Components in /Library/QuickTime/, however the default codecs are actually in /System/Library/QuickTime/ It's pretty simple, once you know how it works.Īt the OS-level video encoding and decoding is handled by QuickTime and QuickTime libraries.