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Flip Camera in FCP
Hi,
I was wondering if I could have some advice on how to convert videos from my 1st generation Flip camera to a format compatible with Final Cut Pro. I’ve searched on the Internet and looked up a few converters, but haven’t gotten very far. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!
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Try the search function in the forum. I’m pretty sure this has been covered.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Compressor… MPEG Streamclip… Its your choice.
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Thanks … I did try searching, but didn’t find anything. Thing is – I also looked up how to use compressor but couldn’t figure that out either! That’s why I posted here …
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Sorry. Wrong post.
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Hmmm… I suggest that you read the manuals and look at some tutorials before trying something that you have no idea how to perform.
What you are wanting to do is elemental…
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I don’t understand how just telling me it’s just “elemental” is going to help anything. I am new to video so anything seems like a challenge at this point. I researched all afternoon and although I know my flip camera videos are in MP4 format, I don’t know what format I need to be able to use it in FCP. I went into Compressor but had no idea what to do, so I looked that up but didn’t find anything that I understood or that even resembled step-by-step instructions. I don’t even know where to start, and I was hoping that by posting here someone could at least point me in the general direction.
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Megan,
“I don’t understand how just telling me it’s just “elemental” is going to help anything. I am new to video so anything seems like a challenge at this point.”This is a basic thing you should know how to do if your an editor. There is a forum for entry level questions:
https://forums.creativecow.net/applefinalcutbasicsYou might want to try and post your question there.
But first you really need to read the manual cover to cover, and consider getting some training, or taking a job as an assistant.
A lot of folks that are ‘new to video’, might think it so easy a caveman can do it and just jump in and start taking gigs expecting to hunt and peck their way through it. Don’t be one of them. This is a craft that many on this forum have spent decades learning, there is no overnight shortcut.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Well lets start with you giving some elemental information.
Which version of FCP are you using (Current version is FCP 7 but you might have 6, 5, 4 or earlier)? This will enable us to tell what to convert to for optimal performance / quality etc for editing.
It may even help if you tell us what Mac you using and what OS.
We also need to know what format, frame size and fps the Flip MP4 files are. Open them in Quicktime under “Window” in the menu bar select “Show Movie Properties” this will open a window, tell us what it says next to “Format”.
Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
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flip camera mp4 to apple prores using compressor tutorial
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I tutor a guy in FCP quite often, and I’ve learned to teach this too “Make the buckets first.” Final Cut Pro is opposite from programs like word and excel, where you import stuff and adjust the formatting later.
In FCP you need to “make the buckets first.” That means, you have decisions to make before you even open the program! The first decision you have to make is what codec you will use to edit. What frame size will you use? What audio “details” will you use?
That all means the first step is to make some decisions about those details and then transcode your flip footage accordingly. Since first generation flip is probably standard definition, I suggest you transcode the footage to DV/NTSC codec, at 29.97 frames per second, with a picture size of 720×480, and audio details of AIFF 48k 16-bit.
After you figure out how to use Compressor (and it’s not that tough), you set a bunch of details and hit the go button, it will spit out the newly transcoded footage.
AFter you do all that, then open up FCP. There’s a whole bunch of unintuitive difficulty in figuring out where all your footage will be stored and how all the capture scratch settings are set.
After you wrestle with transcoding all your footage post back (probably in the beginner forum 🙂 and you can get help on setting up fcp properly for an edit.
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