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Dropped Frames & Weird Behavior During Transitions
Hi Folks,
This is a pretty weird problem, and unfortunately I think it’s most likely going to remain a mystery.
I teach a video production and editing course. A friend of mine hosted a shoot for us shooting on the Red camera. He transcoded all of the video into one long SD quicktime file in H.264 with the intention that it would be easy breezy for us to import into final cut and edit. So the video we’re editing is one quicktime movie that contains all of the shots within it. Any time we cut two shots together, we get dropped frames as the playhead passes over the cut. If a transition is placed on a cut, we get this weird Max Headroom jumping frame effect during the transition. It’s very bizarre. Any thoughts?
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[Jason McCaffrey] “He transcoded all of the video into one long SD quicktime file in H.264 with the intention that it would be easy breezy for us to import into final cut and edit.”
Tell your friend that H.264 is NOT a editing codec, so its NOT going to be easy breezy to edit in Final Cut.
Convert the file to a proper editing codec. Anything on the list of easy setups in FCP will be a fine proper editing format.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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ProRes would be a good choice.
John
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I too am getting dropped frames with h.264 1920 1080 but this was after I had pulled slx from a sequence over an hour long (that did not drop frames) down to six minutes, which still did not drop frames until I added a filter to a layer of video. Now it hiccups at transitions. I understand why H.264 is not considered an editing format having never been a fan of Mpeg in any format, but seem confused why the dropping only happens after I add the effect, and then at transitions. Obviously the render is in the same format.
Am running 7.01 on a 3.06 Intel Core 2 duo 4gb 1067 mhz ram (Imac 21″) Lacie terrabyte drive with five partions via fire wire 800. The connection passes through one drive that is not powered up.
Thanks,
Barnaby
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