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AVI from PC does not render correctly in Fcut
I’m using Final Cut Pro HD 4.5. I exported AVI’s from an editing program called “Liquid Edition” on a PC. It’s high quality when it runs on PC. When I importit into F Cut I get an error message saying:
“The following media files are not optimized for Final Cut Pro HD. It is highly recommended that you either recapture the media or use the Media Manager to create new copies of the files to improve their performance for multi-stream playback”
I tried editing anyway, putting in keyframes, resizing footage on the screen, etc. It had the red render bar above. The footage looked great when I scrolled through it frame by frame BEFORE I rendered it. I checked under Sequence –> Settings –> and only made sure that generally the Quality is 100%, compressor is DV/DVCPRO – NTSC. Once rendered, the footage looks awful! Very low Q, even when I scroll through frame by frame. I tried exporting as Quicktime movie BEFORE rendering the footage and the quicktime is also low quality.
Does this have something to do with using AVI from a PC? Or something in my render or export settings? If it’s the AVI, how can I use the Media Manager to create copies of the video to play correctly and at right resolution?
Thanks for any help…
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3 Replies
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AVI does not play well on Macs. FCP is QuickTime based, and an AVI is not. The best option would be to try to get the footage out of the PC in some form other than AVI (You can’t usually go wrong with a image sequence if QuickTime output is not an option).
Unfortunately for you, that error message was basically correct when it said:
[Suika Suki] “It is highly recommended that you either recapture the media”
That’s what I’d do.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Thanks for the quick reply! Before attempting to recapture, I’ll see if I can export as quicktime or image sequences. I assume then that Final Cut takes image sequences?
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If you do go the Image Sequence route, use QT Pro to save the files as a self contained movie file. It will join all the stills into one QT movie.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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