• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  codec question for graham nattress

  Posted by Paul Nevison on April 11, 2005 at 2:29 pm

  hey graham

  you seem to be up with all the technical low-down on video and codecs. what are the issues if any with using mpeg 4 encoded video in fcp 4.5. what is the quality like and would mpeg 2 be better?

  thanks mate

  Graeme Nattress replied 21 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Paul Nevison

  April 11, 2005 at 2:30 pm

  NT
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  Graeme Nattress

  April 11, 2005 at 5:21 pm

  I wouldn’t edit any MPEG based codec in FCP. Best thing to do is to open it up in Quicktime and save it out as either uncompressed or lightly compressed. FCP doesn’t like the MPEG codecs because of their predictive frames, which cause FCP to hiccup when trying to get the frame it wants from the video.

  Graeme

  – http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP
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  Paul Nevison

  April 11, 2005 at 5:24 pm

  cool thanks for that graeme. so where does that leave FCP and HDV as doesn’t this format use a type of mpeg 2 for its encoding?
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  Graeme Nattress

  April 11, 2005 at 5:51 pm

  Well, either Apple change quicktime / FCP, or they change HDV into something more easily editable. Most people change the HDV as no matter how hard you try or how clever you are, MPEG2 was never designed to be edited natve.

  Graeme

  – http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP

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