FCP 5.12 does not import variable frame rate clips

[Noah Kadner]

Hi Art-

Hmm- I have under and overcranked 720p 24pn clips here that play perfectly in the importer and then after import too in 5.12 on my MacBook Pro. Is that directly from a card or on a HD or a P2 store or a Firestore? Mine are copied from P2 to a hard drive. Maybe try a trashing of the prefs?

Noah

[Arthur Aldrich]

These were from a P2 Store, and I also tried from p2 files copied from HD.

I trashed the prefs, but no love.

I will try it on my MacBookPro and see if it works there.

–
Art Aldrich
Leader, NJ FCP UG
http://www.njfcpug.org

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Arthur Aldrich] “the clips show up as white frames.”

This usually means you don’t have the DVCPRO HD codec installed on your machine, but that should have installed when you installed FCP.

Do me a favor and look in your HardDrive > Library > Quicktime folder.

Do you see a file named: “DVCPROHDCodec.component” ?

Jeremy

[David S.]

Working fine here.

720/24pn 60

[Gary Adcock]

Hey Art

I have not had an issue in 5.1.2 with the P2 import of VFR material recorded in “24p” mode
nor am I having an issue with Varicam footage and the FRC. (via 1400 deck) (@ the varicamp in LA)

let me know if I can help.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Gary Adcock]

Art

One other thing – is there any other hardware in your desktop?
have you run the Firmware update?

try with 2 gigs of RAM – there are some issues with 3rd party hardware in the MacPro not being able to function with the RAM

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Arthur Aldrich]

I decided to import the clips on my MacBook Pro with FCP 5.1.2, and it worked fine.

I then hooked up the hvx via firewire to the MacPro, and it worked fine. I also tried it again from the p2 files on my hard drive, and this time it worked fine.

Strange…

–
Art Aldrich
Leader, NJ FCP UG
http://www.njfcpug.org

[Gary Adcock]

[Arthur Aldrich] “I then hooked up the hvx via firewire to the MacPro, and it worked fine. I also tried it again from the p2 files on my hard drive, and this time it worked fine.”

Art
I have found out that if you set in /out points on P2 materials with FCP 5.1.2 while the content is still on the cards, you get intermittent results with the imported materials- #1 of which was an inability to process the 720p offspeed/60 P2 clips thru the Software FRC.

The data would import on the first machine i tested it on, but the cloned and copied versions of the same P2 card would not allow the material to pass thru the FRC after master version was imported the first time in FCP.
It “looked” as if FCP modified the material on the card and it was no longer compliant on the cloned versions, However I was not able to see what or where the card data had been touched by FCP, yet it was how the materials responded when I tried to run the files thru the FRC.

There was NOT a problem importing the data from the cards that was fine, only how the FRC handled (or did not)the content when converting the frame rates.
on the cloned versions

still testing to find out if it was operator error or something else.

gary

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows