does anyone know any way of getting HD finalcut pro footage to open on a PC or should i just shoot the hard drive and then myself to put me out of my misery
Depends on the codec - A lot of apple stuff is the quicktime prores codec which isnt available on the pc as far as I know - you might be looking at transcoding it into something else for the pc.
iiiin other words this footage on my computer is useless
seems i should be fine when i get this material according to this site
Excellent! that’s more than likely your issue - you can get your fcp editor to check the codec the quicktime movies using with the normal movie properties option.