Originally Posted by Kroy

To Mac users: please note that most options you can choose from to capture at with the Easy Setup option will capture your footage with proprietary codecs and Windows editors will not be able to work with them.
AIC and AppleProRes are obvious but it gets worse (if you use a newer version of FCP).

Instead of capturing HDV as MPEG2 as it should, FCP wraps it in a version of MOV that can only be read by MAC systems with FCP installed. All others will get a white screen and audio.

This is the case even if you DO NOT specifically select a proprietary codec but the seemingly logical HDV 60i Firewire Easy Setup option.


So in case you have a shared workload be warned that Windows-based editors will not be able to work with your stuff.

(I did find a complicated workaround to work with footage captured with the new HDV60i Firewire/MOV option, more about that on my blog).