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FCP 6 can’t multiclip and RT options are wrong
I’ve noticed that for some reason sometimes my sequences “just won’t act right”, usually in some way won’t play properly. As if the computer can’t render them all in time or something.
Currently with files I transcoded (using mpeg streamclip to h264 640×480 deinterlaced with uncompressed audio) it is doing this problem with the RT options I listed above and although I am able to make a multiclip sequence it is unable to play back, nothing is seen and sometimes no audio is heard but hten when I pause the playback the playhead jumps forward to where it would have been if it had played back smoothly.
I have attached an image of what the rt panel looks like when it doesn’t look right.
I have FCP 6.06 on a MacBook Pro 17 running OSX 10.7.2 on a 2.5 GHZ intel Core i7 with 4gb memory
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I also tried transcoding the source files to proress 422 with all kinds of different audio, same problems.
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Stephen,
H264 is not supported by FC, neither 640×480 (SQ pixels I guess) is a standard video size.
you can’t have RT options on that conditions.
rafael -
wow, can’t believe 60×480 isn’t supported, isn’t that standard DV NTSC?
Should it be 720×480?
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[Stephen Williamson] “wow, can’t believe 60×480 isn’t supported, isn’t that standard DV NTSC?”
640×480 is just a frame size.
DV, h.264, ProRes, DVCProHD are codecs.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
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if it’s about the codec then why do both h264 and prores 422 not work in this case, despite prores of course being a fcp format?
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[Stephen Williamson] “if it’s about the codec then why do both h264 and prores 422 not work in this case, despite prores of course being a fcp format?”
You see the codecs and sizes you get in the “Easy setups”?
Those will give you all these options in the RT menu.
RT is an engine in FC that works only with certain codecs but with standard video sizes/pixels/field-order.
DV is supported by FC but you don’t get RT with DV at other than PAL or NTSC standards.
rafael -
If you go with DV, it has to be DV at 720×480…it cannot be 640×480. If you do ProRes, it has to be 720×486…not ProRes 640×480. FCP likes standard video sizes. ProRes 640×480 is not.
Shane
Little Frog Post
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
“If you go with DV, it has to be DV at 720×480…it cannot be 640×480. If you do ProRes, it has to be 720×486…not ProRes 640×480. FCP likes standard video sizes. ProRes 640×480 is not.”
Hm first off thanks so much to everyone for their help.
Hm I never realized DV was a codec I suppose.
So the SD standard can be said to be 720×480 and it’s a popular confusion that it’s 640×480?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Some how I’ve been laboring under the 640 delusion for YEARS
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Hm perhaps I should repharse this question at this point:
I do alot of work with video that requires it to be in the same format (I VJ live at music shows)
When I did my research everyone internationally in the VJ world was doing 640×480 photojpeg codec. Should I switch to 720×480 photojpeg? Will FCP be happy with that?
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