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importing mov’s from iPhoto
a friend of mine is having problems importing a quicktime movie file from iPhoto (a slideshow he created) into FCPxpress. The movie plays fine when opened in Quicktime but when he imports it (FILE>IMPORT FILE) he only gets audio and black on the video…ideas?
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What the movie? How did it get into iPhoto? FCE is a DV and HDV editing application. It only works correctly with those formats. Stills cameras shoot in a variety of formats MPEG-4, MPEG-2, and others, none of which are supported directly in FCE. The material needs to be converted to a format that FCE can work with. You might be able to do this use iMovie (if iMovie recognizes it) or by using the QuickTime Pro player to convert the material.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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He had a slideshow in iPhoto, exported it out of iPhoto as a quicktime movie file and then wanted to import that movie file into FCE – but only got audio and black video.
The quicktime file works fine when opened in quicktime and he has imported mov’s the exact same way before and had no problem…that’s why i was confused with his problem… -
As Tom said, the file needs to be DV codec for FCE – check that. It may involve making a new QT from iPhoto.
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