• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  problem opening .mov file in FCP

  Posted by Jim Mageras on December 12, 2008 at 2:46 am

  Hi everybody! I’m new to the forum and new to FCP.

  I’ve been given some quicktime files that I cannot open in
  FCP 6.0.1

  Here is the QT file data as per Finder:
  -640×480
  -Integer (Big Endian), DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
  -Bit Rate: 30,302

  If I try to open them in FCP I get the following msg: “Unsupported Frame rate, FCP does not support this frame rate or the way it is represented.”

  If I try to drag it into the browser or import I get: “File Error: Unknown File.”

  The bit rate is suspect, but what I’m curious about is that on my G4, I could import the files into imovie (QT Pro) w/o a problem.

  Thanks in advance, Jim

  Paul Campbell replied 17 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  John Pale

  December 12, 2008 at 5:37 am

  open in Quicktime Player. Check its properties. What is its frame rate?
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  Jim Mageras

  December 12, 2008 at 1:55 pm

  29.96!

  What do you think?
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  Jim Mageras

  December 12, 2008 at 1:59 pm

  Sorry, when “playing” QT reports the frame rate as 30fps
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  Shane Ross

  December 12, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Use Cinema Tools to CONFORM the file to 29.97.

  Shane

  

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  Paul Campbell

  December 12, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Shane, would Cinema Tools be a good way to convert 23.98 progressive to 29.97 NTSC? Just curious…

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