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FCP Canon 5D issues and under a deadline
I hope that someone out there can lead me to an answer to my problem. Here’s what’s happening.
I shot a video on the Canon 5D and the footage looks great, but it has proven to be very difficult to deal with. When I first brought it in I was having a bunch of frame rate issues. Essentially, playback would stutter throughout and I couldn’t get a clean playback. Then when I tried to apply a smooth cam filter and render it out FCP came back with a file I/O error. I scrapped my render folder, made sure I had plenty of hard drive space and tried it again. It came back the same.
I posted here and got a response directing me to a tutorial. I watched the video, and although it addressed a workflow, I didn’t see where my workflow was different and I was having problems that were not addressed.
I then attempted to change the codec to Apple ProRes. I got it changed and imported the new footage. I thought that everything would be good to go. My playback was better and I seemed to be able to render footage, but that wasn’t the case. I just attempted to add a still of the footage to the timeline, rendered it out and now my entire sequence is playing back green.
All of this doesn’t make any sense. Is it the footage? FCP? My settings? The footage seems to be intact. I can play it back through quicktime no problem, but when I render it out in FCP… I get green?
I have a deadline of Friday this week to get this promo out the door and I am beginning to get frustrated. What are my options? Any FCP gurus out there that can pinpoint my problem.
My settings are as follows:
Apple ProRes footage
Sequence at: 1922 x 1080, Custom (16:9), Square pixel aspect ratio, Editing Timebase (30), Compressor Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ)David
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P.S. I closed FCP and removed the still image and I got rid of the green. But now I am getting that same I/O file error.
David
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Hi David,
[David Neidert] “Is it the footage? FCP?”
They are the two of them together.
FC is not yet ready to manage h264.
H264 in an FC sequence is at the moment a NO-NO.
I haven’t work with Canon but I have already read few post related with.
You need to transcode the footage before editing.
Probably the best option is Proress.
And probably the best way may be MPGStreamclip.
Cheers,
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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Thanks for your help.
I am converting the files via MPEG Streamclip and it is working quite well. I am not sure why, but ProRes with MPEG is working better than the Squeeze and Compressor versions.
Either way this seems to be a solution for now.
Thanks again,
David
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