• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compression FCP 4.5

  Posted by Camren Banks on July 10, 2009 at 3:28 pm

  I have a long list of issues and make-shift ways of solving them.

  Quick background. I am working on a video project in FCP 4.5. At one point I upgraded my FCP to 5. When I did this, along with a quicktime upgrade, the project file wouldn’t open anymore. To play it safe, we went back to 4.5.

  We have been shooting new footage with an HD camcorder (.mts2 files) which cannot be read or played on FCP 4.5.

  So we purchased a converter program to turn those HD files into another video format.

  Question:

  Without changing my FCP or QT versions… which is the best conversion, i.e. .mov, avi, .movhd, to keep the highest quality that will be read by FCP 4.5

  Thanks

  Rafael Amador replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  July 10, 2009 at 4:50 pm

  [Camren Banks] “Without changing my FCP or QT versions… which is the best conversion, i.e. .mov, avi, .movhd, to keep the highest quality that will be read by FCP 4.5 “
  If you work with FC “.mov” (QT Movie) is your way. Is the only way that you can bring something to FC and export without rendering.

  8b Uncompress would be the codec that would keep the whole picture information from your mts2 files.
  Also I’m not sure (don’t remember) if FC 4.5 can work with those files.
  Cheers,
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Camren Banks

  July 10, 2009 at 4:57 pm

  Thanks so much Rafael! (Stay tuned, I’ll definitely be asking many more questions!)
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  Rafael Amador

  July 10, 2009 at 5:31 pm

  Here we are:-)
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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