• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  H.264 playback problems

  Posted by Wayde Ferguson on November 30, 2007 at 1:30 am

  I have imported some H.264 files into FCP, they play fine in quicktime player but in final cut on the timeline it wants to render for 7 hours. The clip is an hour long is only 1.8 G and is 1920×1080 24p. I have the latest Mac Pro and a Kona LHe card. I noticed that there is no sequence setting for H.264, is this the problem? does anyone else have problems playing H2.64 files?

  Thanks

  Ben Hendriks replied 17 years, 11 months ago 6 Members · 5 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  November 30, 2007 at 1:38 am

  H.264 is a delivery codec, not an editing one. Gotta convert your footage into something that is in the EASY SETUPS.

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  Steven Lambion

  November 30, 2007 at 2:01 am

  Like the other person said, h.264 is an advance compressed format. It’s codec is to complex to edit with on computers these days. You need a less compressed format that uses an easier algorithm like DV.

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  Gary Hernandez

  December 18, 2007 at 1:56 am

  I’m an Avid and recently final cut pro editor.
  I’m on a Mac Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 6.5 GB DDR SDRAM. Running Final Cut 5.1.4

  The Problem. Randomly while playing one of my sequences starts to “stutter” video and audio and i’ll get intermittent black frames.
  I have another sequence from the same project that plays fine(different footage though). And I recently loaded completely different footage into a new project and the sequence started doing the same thing. All the footage including independent audio tracks in each sequence play fine in the source canvas.
  I’ve tried changing to various playback settings in the timeline RT menu. I’ve rebuilt the sequence and it’s fine for a while then starts again.
  All the footage was loaded the same way via firewire connected to my Panasonic DVX100B camera

  Any Ideas

  Thanks in advance

  Gary
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  Tom Warden

  May 13, 2008 at 3:14 am

  I have this problem too. Can I change the format from within FCP or do I need a 3rd party app.
  I used compressor but the resulting file (DV50 Anamorphic PAL) made no difference to the problem.
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  Ben Hendriks

  May 13, 2008 at 9:09 am

  Hi,

  I can recommend “mpeg streamclip” (free download) to convert your H264 to a Quicktime format suitable for editing in FCP.

  Best Ben

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