Anyone know why FCPX is choosing to pixilate this clip beyond recognition?

[Craig Seeman]

Have you tried playing the same clip in another player?

[Dwight Cenac]

I played it in the panasonic p2 utility player and it plays fine.

Let me clarify: It plays fine in Final Cut Pro X UP UNTIL I add an effect or transition onto it.

I have a strong feeling the problem is coming from whatever FCPX is doing to render the effect/transition, and has very little to do with the integrity of the file.

[Craig Seeman]

Have you tried the exact same effect on another P2 sourced file and had the same issue?
Have you tried replacing the file with another P2 sourced file in the exact same location and added the same effect?
Have you tried creating a new project (timeline) and put this file at another point in the timeline and added the same effect?

[Tom Wolsky]

What’s P2? It’s a recording medium. What did you record on it? What are the full specs of your computer?

All the best,

Tom

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Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press

[Dwight Cenac]

P2 is Panasonic’s High Definition technology used on their HD cameras, notably the Panasonic AG-HVX200 (which I recorded on). It’s quite common among professional editing systems.

The specs on my iMac:

1) It’s brand new.
2) It has the 3.4 GHz quad-core i7 processor
3) 4GB DDR3 memory
4) It is running OS Lion 10.6.8

If I’m forgetting something, let me know.

[Jeremy Garchow]

What’s in the compound clip?

[Dwight Cenac]

Other P2 clips. The result is the same whether that clip is compounded or not, and I even tried compounding the clip with the rest of them and adding effects and got the same result.

I just transfered the file over to my PC and rendered it out in Premiere as an uncompressed .mov file. Not surprising, Premiere had no problem working with the file. Now I’m going to see if FCPX will work better with it as an .mov.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dwight Cenac] “Now I’m going to see if FCPX will work better with it as an .mov.”

FCPX only works with .mov.

If you blade your current clip right in the middle and add an effect, does it happen?

[Andy Neil]

[Dwight Cenac] “P2 is Panasonic’s High Definition technology used on their HD cameras, notably the Panasonic AG-HVX200 (which I recorded on).”

Tom wasn’t asking about P2 because he didn’t know. He was asking because P2 doesn’t tell you what CODEC you were recording to. It’s like saying, “I recorded it to tape.”

Since you said HVX200, I think the possible choices are DV, or DVCProHD. Which of these codecs are your clips?

[Dwight Cenac] “4) It is running OS Lion 10.6.8”

10.6.8 is Snow Leopard. Lion is 10.7. Which is it (my guess is 10.7)?

Andy

PS: BTW, I’ve seen this issue before from someone. I can’t remember what it was he was using (I think DV), but transcoding the media to ProRes solved the problem.

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andy Neil] ” I think the possible choices are DV, or DVCProHD.”

Or dv50.

The amount of recording options on the hvx200 are numerous. It would be good to be extremely specific.