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Video skipping in viewer not in timeline
I’m working with a DV-PAL file I exported from MPEG Streamclip. I import it into FCP and try to play it and it skips and freezes in the viewer. This obviously make it very difficult to edit. The wierd thing is if I drop it on a DV-PAL timeline it plays fine. It also plays fine in Qt player. The video does not need rendering when I put it on the timeline but the audio does. I haven’t had this problem with stuff generated from Streamclip before.
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Check that your timeline settings match your clip settings exactly. If they don’t (could be codec/size/frame rate etc) then FCP will want to render the clip to make it match. Depending on your settings it will attempt this in “realtime” to greater or lesser success, which is why your clip is stuttering.
HTH
Ben
Curious Turtle Professional Video
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Hi
If you Export from Mpeg Streamclip using the Export to DV setting you get a .dv stream, as used in iMovie.
What you need to do is Export to QuickTime, then choose the Compression setting Apple DV-PAL. -
thanks that did the trick!
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I want to add several details to my previous message. I discovered this skipping frames problem during one-to-one training at my local Apple Store. The trainer did lots of trouble shooting, including adjusting FCE settings. I encouraged him to try copying my FCE project, and the DV file, to the store’s iMac on the countertop. The same skipping frames problem occurred in Final Cut Pro on that computer, adding to other evidence that my MacBook Pro and/or external hard drive (which I had brought to the store) are unlikely to be the source of the problem.
Afterwards, at home, I tried importing and watching several of my other DV files (all created with iMovie6’s export feature) in the FCE viewer, to determine whether the problem is limited to DV files created from analog Hi8 footage captured with the Digital8 camcorder. The same skipping frames problem occurs with DV files that were created from VHS footage captured with a Canopus ADVC110 and miniDV tapes captured with a Canon camcorder. (All of these DV files play fine in iMovie6 and with Quicktime.)
Next, I tried capturing miniDV tape footage directly into FCE for my first time. The skipping frames problem does not occur when playing that captured footage in FCE’s viewer. However, then I exported that footage to create a DV file using FCE’s export feature. The skipping frame occurs when importing and watching that DV file in FCE, suggesting to me that FCE and FCP’s import feature (which I know only references, not copies, the source) has a glitch.
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My previous message does not appear, so I will copy and paste it here: I’m experiencing a skipping video problem in Final Cut Express, for the first time today. Working with analog Hi8 footage, captured via a Digital8 camcorder into iMovie 6. Experienced no problems playing the captured footage in iMovie. Exported to DV files via iMovie to archive raw footage. The DV clips play fine with Quicktime. Now, upon importing DV clips to Final Cut Express (which I am just learning) for new editing, I am experiencing skipping video in the viewer only. Imported video plays fine in timeline.
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I’ve been having the same exact problem.
after reading around and tinkering i kinda figured it out.
this is a little more of a temporary fix but it’ll do.so my video has all the options in the sequence settings. (sequence>settings)
the ones that FCP picks for you are i guess the way the video is naturally because it dosent have to render the film. I realized after awhile that if i can change any sort of options on the film so it always has to render then it dosent skip!so i had to change the codec from
H.264 to XDCAM(720p 30f)obvisouly the codec i changed it to will be different depending on preferences and what type of recording gear and settings you have.(my camera is 720p and 30 FPS) so it’s a little bit of a pain to render EVERYTHING, but its much better than not even being able to see what your doing.
if anyone has a fix for this that involves not having to render ALL video, please let me know as it would be a little bit of a time saver.
thanks.
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my project is very small but when i try to import one of the videos i shot into it does some color changes and skips frames. all other videos are shot the same way and imported the same way and this doesn’t happen. anyone have any ideas?? help!
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monica, my problem back in 2009 was that Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Pro at the time, didn’t like Raw DV Stream files (.dv extension). In Raw DV Stream files, the video and audio is interleaved into one data stream, rather than in separate synchronized tracks as in a Quicktime file with DV. The Raw DV Stream files had to be rendered before they would play properly.
My guess is, your circumstances are completely different?
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thanks for the reply! i am new at video editing so i don’t know some of this stuff. my video was imported into quick time from my camera and its just a mov….
the weird thing is that its not happening with any of my other videos which were shot and exported the exact same way🙂
M.K.
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