Bizarre Log and Transfer Issue.

[David Burns]

I have a big flat screen Apple computer monitor and a couple of external speakers.

Thanks for your patience with me.

Dave

[Paul Guy]

I am having this exact same issue.

The short answer is iMovie imports it fine and I think it is because I upgraded FCP 6.0.4 to 6.0.5.

The long…

I have a Sony SR12 and shot a feature with it last summer, no problems with a Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 workflow. Log and Transfer used to work. The issue is not in the timeline because the .mov file itself has the jitter, and as previously mentioned, iMovie 7.1.4 imports the clips without issue.

Now I, like many people, would rather have my clips in ProRes (and without the extra iMovie step) so I would like to get it working again. I also tried changing the L&T settings in FCP to use Apple Intermediate Codec just like iMovie and no luck.

I have posted clips https://files.inventfilm.com/issue/

There is a full res of both the FCP version (164MB) and the iMovie one (142MB), as well as smaller H264 versions of each (11MB each).

I haven’t changed any settings so I don’t know what else it could be. The only change has been from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5.

I also tried re-importing clips that I recorded last summer. I have kept on the camera the first few things I ever recorded (these files imported fine the first time), and they now have the jitter issue. I did this so we know it’s not just recently recorded videos that have the issue.

[David Burns]

Thank you Paul! I thought I was going crazy. We too had updated our FCP. And I discovered the problem because I was trying to go back to footage that we used a year ago without problem. I hope FCP fixes this issue soon. In the meantime I’ve tried the iMovie method and it works great! I wish I had known about it a month ago. I’ve been taking the footage home with me to convert on my PC where the Sony software works. Then I was converting it to MPEG4 files (which would take days) the take it back to Compressor to reconvert it to the correct codec. It was painful and messy. iMovie is so much easier and faster. For some reason I didn’t think it would recognize AVCHD files.

Thank you again!

Dave