• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Using Compressor what formats can FCP edit (apart from prores)

  Posted by Ben Edwards on April 1, 2011 at 7:26 pm

  Hi,

  I have a lot of iMovie DV which I am using Compressor to transcode so it can be edited in FCP. Prores creates files 4 times the size of the original, are there any other formats I could try which FCP can edit (HDV seems to be available and FCP can edit it).

  Regards,
  Ben

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  Ben Edwards replied 15 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  April 1, 2011 at 8:37 pm

  Go into Audio/Video Settings and in sequence presets check the list of available codecs. Anything in there FCP can working with natively.

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Shane Ross

  April 1, 2011 at 9:53 pm

  iMovie DV files? As in .dv? Standard definition? Then convert to DV/NTSC.

  HD? Then you can try DVCPRO HD or the Apple Intermediate Codec

  Shane

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  Ben Edwards

  April 2, 2011 at 12:58 pm

  Thanks everyone. I ended up encoding to DV PAL.

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