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FCP HD output to digital media player
Hi all,
I am trying to troubleshoot an issue I’m having setting up a looping video display using a Micca slim player. I’m hoping this is just a dumb question and not a stumper.
It appears when I’m outputting my Pro res 422 1080i video as a self-contained movie from FCP that it may be creating an additional hidden file?!
I’m placing the file on an SD card and sliding it into the Micca player. It then appears as two files. Yet that second file does not appear on my iMac even when I enable viewing of hidden files.
It looks like this:
myvideo.mov
_myvideo.mov (this is the file name for the extra hidden file that I can only see in the Micca).I want the qt file to autoplay so need to place it on the root of my SD card. Unfortunately the Micca keeps trying to read the extra file so it returns an error and will only play my movie once.
The interesting thing is that I have had no problem getting original D7000 footage to loop in this way as it does not have the extra file with it.
Since I can’t see the file on my computer I can’t remove it. Is there some setting in FCP or Compressor that will remove this tagalong file and make it appear like my native footage?
Any musings (even a best guess) as to what is going on would be much appreciated. I’m new to HD work so I’m hoping it’s just my newbie status!!
THANK YOU!
Jet W. -
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[Jet Waller] “It appears when I’m outputting my Pro res 422 1080i video as a self-contained movie from FCP that it may be creating an additional hidden file?!”
Up to what I see on their website, this device us unable to play something like a 1080p/1 prores file.
That is not to read production formats/codecs.
It can’t read something with any data rate higher than 50Mbps and I guess the codecs supported in QT are H264 and MP4.
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Thanks for your reply!
I have the Micca slim HD player. I think it can play HD 1080i. The issue may be an OS Lion issue… I heard the below back from Micca support. Now I am still trying to figure out how to delete the extra file and not having much luck. Very frustrating!——-
Hi,This is a common issue with Mac computers:
https://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/08/dear-aunt-tuaw-what-are-those-duplicate-files/
It’s possible to delete them but you have to know how to use the Mac command prompt. It’s probably much easier to delete the files using a Windows PC.
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To clarify, I AM able to play my file, it’s just that the device then tries to play the next file which is an empty metadata file. It then aborts autoplay due to not being able to play this file and the looping is over. I need this file to loop 24/7 for about a month!
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Just to think about a possible issue with the SD card format (FAT-32 I guess):
How big is the Prores file?
rafael -
It is an issue with windows/mac compatibility. So I need to either find a way to remove the extra file or create a PC compatible file.
Interestingly, there is an export function on the Lion version of QT that allows you to export a PC compatible file. This WORKED! Caveat is that it will not convert a file that has been output directly with Apple Pro Res 422 from FCP. So you need to compress the file elsewhere (using Compressor or third party app) then bring it back into QT and then export as 1080 compatible with Mac and PC. I would like to not have to compress the files as much, but it still looks great.
This was a total hassle and it was nice to find a solution. Still find it strange that I have to process the file twice to get it to work. So any other/better solutions are welcome!
– Jet
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[Jet Waller] “This was a total hassle and it was nice to find a solution. Still find it strange that I have to process the file twice to get it to work. So any other/better solutions are welcome!”
Export an H264 directly from FC using QT Conversion.
rafael
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