FCP 7 XDCAM EX woes…still…

[Paul Jay]

Sounds like user error and RTFM to me. No cults going on here.

[Eduardo Serrano]

Hi Jim,

I have exactly the same suite as you, and I am one third into the assembly of a feature shot in xdcam ex.
It was shot in 23.98 and im getting the same sort of crashes and weird flickering frames while playing. Actually it happens a lot when I use the “trim tool”.

Did converting all the footage to prores worked for you back then? Or did you find any other ways of solving this mistery?

My machine is brand new and it’s the same you got with the matrox mini etc.

I would really appreciate if you could answer this.

Thanks a lot.

Eduardo.

[Jim Blokland]

Hey Eduardo:

I ended up biting the bullet and transcoding to ProRes proxy (80 hours of footage!), and that cleared the problem up, for the most part. For the DI, I re-linked back to the original XDCAM and output a Quicktime.

Hope this helps. Good luck finishing your feature!

Best, JIM.

Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Mac Pro Octo Westmere
14 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5870
Matrox MX02 Mini
Seritek 4 TB RAID
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 5 // FCS3

[Eduardo Serrano]

Hey Jim,

Thanks a lot for your prompt response. It’s a shame apple didn’t fix this bug yet, but I guess they’ve been busy working on this “new project”.
I have about 40 hours of footage so it seems that it’s a better idea to convert those.

After two years only working on Avid, I’m back to FCP. It’s a pity that’s it still is not as rounded as it should be, but I guess we can blame the codec partly for that.

Thanks again.

Eduardo.

[Jim Blokland]

Oh well, if you were on AVID, you’d best transcode to DNx codec anyway, as I’ve heard AVID’s direct import (name escapes me at the moment) can be a bit funky too.

Best, JIM.

Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Mac Pro Octo Westmere
14 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5870
Matrox MX02 Mini
Seritek 4 TB RAID
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 5 // FCS3

[Rick Moore]

Hello everyone.

This is my first post 🙂

I’ve been searching and searching for someone with a similar issue as me and maybe I’ve found that my issue may be unique but similar in some ways. I don’t really see any issue with editing my sony ex3 footage (converted using xdcam transfer to quicktime xdcam ex codec) in final cut 7.0.3

However here is my BIG problem. When I export from final cut using the ‘export quicktime’ option and use current settings as the export option which in my case is the ‘xdcam ex 1080p24 codec’.
When I open this newly created movie in quicktime 7 or 10 it looks fine.
If I examine it in mpeg streamclip it shows as an xdcam ex clip with all the settings correct.
BUT–when I import that clip into after effects it is corrupt and can’t be used. It’s all red and blocky. I’ve seen some other posts showing bad footage coming into AE but those were green and not red with the same blocks. The clips also shows up as a mpeg clip in the ‘info’ area which is weird. If I then brought in the original clip which was brought into final cut it would be fine. Again, if I import the xdcam ex clip into AE it is great. No corruption. So, this leads me to believe that final cut is corrupting the clip and that the sony xdcam ex codec within final cut is not working correctly.

Anyone see this issue?

thanks,
Rick