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Files captured in iMovie now difficult in FCP
Okay, I’m a wuss. But for a couple of years now I have used iMovie to capture and trim footage, then “shared” (I still hate that word, I much preferred “Export”) the clips I wanted to edit into a folder that I would bring into FCP for editing. The iMovie files were .dv files, but FCP always handled them just fine.
However, ever since I upgraded to Tiger and QT7, my .dv files are impossible to work with in the FCP Viewer. They’ll lag, skip, pause, and won’t scrub. I can’t use the Viewer for selecting the frames I want any more. I have to drag the whole clip into the timeline, render, and trim from there.
If I open the files in QT7 Pro and export them as NTSC Pro full quality .mov files, then the Final Cut Pro Viewer has no trouble.
But these are extra steps that were never needed before, and I am annoyed. I’m having the exact same problem on both my upgraded laptop and PowerPC, so it must be something in one of the upgrades. Has anyone else noticed? And if so, is it something that I might expect to be fixed soon?
My desktop is a 2.5 dualie with 8 gigs of RAM, so I don’t think there’s any problem there. I even trashed my Preferences. Waaah! I liked how things used to work!
Luddite Bob
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4 Replies
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That’s odd. It’s been my experience that .dv files never worked with FCP unless exported as a quicktime, since FCP is a quicktime app, not a DV stream app.
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Hunh. I never had a problem before over the past couple of years. And I did a lot of footage. Maybe I’d just been lucky for some reason? Nonetheless, it was an awful nice way to work. Sure would like it to continue.
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Backflush your system to what you had if it works better. You’ll make up the time to do this on your first project. Keep a test machine around with Tiger to keep an eye on when the FCP or QT specs work for your setup. As far as for .dv files they have dropped into FCP since ver. 1 in my experience. Just a little render on the 32k audio.
Hope this helps-
Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
Ram 1.38
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3 -
I suggest you merely break this bad habit and learn how to operate FCP correctly. It’s totally unnecessary to capture in iMovie. Logging clips is really helpful in the organizational process of editing.
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