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bringing imovie project into FCP.
Hello,
The director I’m working for first worked on her project in iMovie and now when I bring it into FCP I get all sorts of weirness.
I brought it in to FCP by exporting it from iMovie at full quality compression. I then opened the quicktime in Final Cut, which seemed at first to work fine: her sequence and all of the clips popped up in the browser. Trouble is, whenever I play a clip in the viewer it’s jumpy and jerky. Also, whenever I edit a clip to the timeline I get a red render bar even when ‘unlimited rt’ is selected. I can’t feasibly render every time I insert a clip from the viewer into the timeline. That would take forever. Also, the jumpiness in the viewer is driving me nuts.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,
Ramsay
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1 Reply
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Hi Ramsay,
iMovie use a proprietary format that have to be rendered by FC. When you capture DV through iMovie you don’t get a DV .mov, but what is called a “DV Sequence”. A different way to wrap the same video and audio information. But is not a pro format as is not TC based.
Better to keep away.
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