• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sheer Video Questions

  Posted by Dave Gorrie on August 25, 2006 at 3:54 pm

  Hi All,

  I know there are a few users of Sheer Video lurking around, and because there’s no official support page, I thought I would check here!

  So I’ve downloaded the free trial and only have previously captured 8bit (blackmagic design, animation, etc) quicktimes to use right now…but I seem to be running into some problems in FCP when using the codec. I just exported from Quicktime to the sheervideo RGB 8bt codec and sometimes I can bring them into FCP, other times I get an “unknown file” error.

  Then, the clips I DO get to import, aren’t playing back really. If I have the sequence in 8bit Uncompressed I have to render the clips (obviously) and if I have it in RGB 8bit SheerVideo it’s in realtime but I only get a black screen on playback! I can drop the play back head in the timeline and I can see the correct video, but that’s about all I can get!

  Is there something I’m missing here? I can open the exported quicktimes in the QT Player and they play back just fine, so I know I’ve got the QT Component installed correctly…but I just wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts.

  Also, how do you use SheerVideo in your workflow? Capture straight to the codec, or use it for archival purposes?

  Thanks!
  D

  R Weaver replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  R Weaver

  September 6, 2006 at 6:22 am

  There are easy setups for FCP in the extras folder in the SheerVideo installer. Try using one of those. You have to make sure that your sequence QT settings and the SheerVideo codec settings are EXACTLY the same, otherwise you will have render and playback problems, even though FCP does not think the sequence needs rendering. It will work once you get it set up right and it is worth the effort. An amazing codec.

  Rob Weaver

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