• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Will footage from my Nikon Coolpix S8100 work in FCP 6?

  Posted by Emily Hauze on January 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm

  Dear all,

  I’m a novice (on a very limited budget!) looking to improve my home editing options, just for practice. I’ve got FCP 6 and was hoping to use footage from my Nikon Coolpix S8100. It will run, but only haltingly, and it makes the whole program move slowly. I don’t know enough about transcoding to know whether it’s even possible to convert this type of footage to a form that will run more smoothly. I know how to render footage in the timeline, but what I want is for all of the footage, pre-editing, to run smoothly. Is there a way to achieve this?

  And, if the footage is just completely incompatible, what would be the best super-inexpensive camera to buy that would be guaranteed to work well?

  Thanks so much!
  ~Emily

  Rafael Amador replied 15 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
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  Rafael Amador

  January 28, 2011 at 5:51 pm

  [Emily Hauze] ” footage from my Nikon Coolpix S8100. “
  What kind of files makes that camera?
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Emily Hauze

  January 28, 2011 at 6:05 pm

  Thanks for your initial response, Rafael–

  Here are some technical specs on the camera (is this what you’re asking?):

  Sound files (Voice Memo): WAV
  Movies: MOV (Video:MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, Audio: AAC stereo)
  Full HD: 1920x1080p / 30fps

  best,
  Emily
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  Rafael Amador

  January 28, 2011 at 6:31 pm

  H264 is not supported by FC.
  The files needs to be converted.
  Try Log&Transfer.
  Shane Ross has a great tutorial for “Tapeless Workflows”
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Emily Hauze

  January 28, 2011 at 7:28 pm

  Thanks for the pointers. The tutorial looks very helpful. Will pursue this.
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  Rafael Amador

  January 28, 2011 at 7:34 pm

  Post if you have any question.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Emily Hauze

  January 30, 2011 at 1:32 am

  Thanks again for your help. The tutorial you pointed out was helpful to me in grasping some of the logic behind these systems. My footage wasn’t recognized in Log&Transfer, but I did get it all to work, ultimately, with Compressor. It’s incredibly time consuming even to scroll around in the Compressor program when it’s dealing with the H.264 footage, but it does ultimately work.

  Nonetheless, I will probably look to buy a more compatible camera….

  all the best,
  Emily
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  Rafael Amador

  January 30, 2011 at 4:48 pm

  Emily,
  Some of the ACV/H64-etc flavors are a real complication to work with, and there are so many that what may works for one, may not works for another.
  You may try using ClipWrap. It may be helpful for your workflow.
  You can convert to Prores (I think that faster than on Compressor), or BETTER, re-wrap the files to QT (.mov), so they can edited in FC. This option is great because is very fast; there is not transcoding, and no re-compression.
  I think there is a free trial version.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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