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Final Cut does not read last frame of Quicktime movie.
I have problem with FCP4.5 runnig on a g5. i have a lot of Quicktime files rendered out into the Blackmagic Quicktime Codec. When I import the files into FCP for editing, and ouput. The very last frame seems to be missing. I know it is in the file because when I open it in Quicktime I can see the last frame. Also FCP reads the file as being one frame shorter than it is.
Does anyone know why this is or if there is a way to make FCP read that last frame?
I’d hate to have to export it from After Effects again.
thanks
Grant Keiner -
4 Replies
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Odd, but figure you need to make the files a bit longer.
Jerry
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Hi Jerry,
thanks for the reeply. our plan is to take them back into After Effects add a frame or two of black then re-render.As we are working in Uncompressed HD this puts the sqeeze on our disk space.
Also I tried simple doubling the frame in Quicktime, then saving anew Quicktime movie. There is another bug in Quicktime which when you alter a 23.98 HD file changes the frame rate from 23.98 to 29.97 or at least FCP reads it as such. Which makes the file more or less useless as we need to output to 1080 23.98.
I wonder though if other folks have had similare problems. it seems to happen consistently when Rendering out of After Effects. We are also rendering out of Final Touch which randomly has this problem.
Thanks Again for the word of advice.
grant -
Where are you playing this file? In the Viewer, or is it playing through the timeline?
If you put this clip in the timeline it should play through, conversely if you watch it in the viewer it will fall short a frame due to the nature of how FCP handles it’s out points. That seems to be my experience anyway.
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I’m not sure if this is related to your problem, but I have had problems with After Effects rendering a clip which has had pulldown removed on input, and then re-introduced on output (using the exact same pulldown cadence) rendering the last frame with one field of black and one field of picture. As a result, when I try to lay back the render into an edited FCP sequence, many of the shots have a “missing” frame at the end (actually, one field of black))
The way I get around this is by making my AE comps one-frame longer, then adding Time Remapping to the layer (or comp), and then simply dragging the out point of the layer ahead one frame. I’m not really sure why AE does this, but this solution seems to work for me.
My guess is that you might be having the same kind of wierd issue with 3:2 pulldown when rendering out of After Effects. It always seems to happen when I create the initial AE comp by dragging the pulldown-removed source footage down to the “Create New Composition” icon at the bottom of the AE project window.
Aloha,
mel
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