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Help Please — movies import “short”
I have a strange one (to me anyway): I have been sent some graphic title movies to import into a project. I received them as both Quicktimes and Flash movies. When I just play the new files in Quicktime Player, they are fine. But when I import them to FCP, they import at only about half their duration. When I play the files in FCP after importing, they just stop before completing their moves. This happens whether I import the Quicktime files or the Flash files. And they stop at exactly the same place. I know from Quicktime Player that the full extent of the file is there in the original.
Does anyone know what’s up with this?
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6 Replies
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Flash won’t work well, so don’t bring those in. What format are the quicktime movies?
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Hi Jeremy,
The Quicktimes were sent to me as full frame h.264 files. Those play fine and completely on Quicktime Player. When I import them to FCP they play fine — up to a point. At which point they stop and the progress bar at the bottom of the preview window reaches its end. Anything I do to these files other than play them natively makes shorter files than the originals: I exported them from Quicktime as different Quicktimes and they stop at that same point in playback. So I tried importing one of the the ORIGINAL files into After Effects and when I lay it out on the timeline it, likewise, is only a partial movie — ending at exactly the same place! And this is the original file that plays fine and completely in Quicktime. I just cannot figure this one out.
Looking for any ideas…
Lee
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Did you run it through compressor using an advanced format conversion?
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I’ll try that. Fingers crossed. Thanks for sticking with me. Does this seem as strange to you as it does to me?
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H.264 is not an editing format. it is a delivery format only because of the high level of compression.
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I tried to use Compressor but the process failed. I have emailed the people who supplied these files in hoping to get something else from them. If you have any further guidance, it will be much appreciated.
Lee
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