• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Quicktimes not importing properly

  Posted by Lonny Pelot on October 26, 2006 at 5:59 pm

  Here’s the scenario-
  Exporting a 30 second quicktime from Avid DS with “None” as the codec
  Importing into FCP 5.0

  The result is-
  my 30 second quicktime shows up as 29:29
  the first frame is duplicated (1st and 2nd frames are the same)
  the last two frames are cut

  I tested this by putting four frames at the beginning (each frame a differnt color) and the same thing at the end.
  If I open the same file in quicktime everything is correct.

  What am I missing?

  Thank you,

  Lonny

  Lonny Pelot replied 19 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Lonny Pelot

  October 27, 2006 at 1:38 pm

  There may be a couple of problems-

  1) The duplication of the first frame is offsetting the audio and video by one frame

  2) We often deliver finished elements to clients as quicktimes. I don’t want them to have to clean it up. They should be able to just drop it in their timeline.

  3) Final Cut is based on quicktime yet this issue is not present when opened in quicktime, so what is Final Cut doing differently? It’s just not right.

  Plus a new discovery- FCP is cutting off one frame from the end in the preview window and when I bring the clip into my timeline it cuts off a second frame.
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  Lonny Pelot

  October 31, 2006 at 6:33 pm

  I did try that, but it didn’t make a difference. Maybe one of the Cowmunity leaders would be able to give some insight into this?

  Thank you very much,

  Lonny

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