Final cut migration issue

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Final cut migration issue

Posted by Joe Bodego on January 17, 2011 at 12:10 am

Goo day professionals, my company is switching to final cut pro from premier so I am a brand new user. I have watched a lot of training DVDs but one thing baffles me. let me explain, I imported an mpeg file (720X480) and it imported fine, dragged it on the time line, hot the space bar and cold not see or hear anything but a beeping noise. I googled and realize that it had to be rendered. Can you guide me on how to go about this so that it plays without having to render all the time? Remember I am new to final cut pro go easy on me. Thanks in advance.

Joshua Macfall replied 15 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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Richard Harrington
January 17, 2011 at 12:28 am

FCP unlike PP is not as good at mixing things in a timeline. It wants you to standardize on a single codec ideally.

Drag wils into Compressor and use the Format Conversion category…. typically ProRes. You’ll find a lot on this on Cow site.

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
Tom Wolsky
January 17, 2011 at 12:30 am

The media needs to be converted to a format that is supported by FCP. You can use Compressor or MPEG Streamclip to do this, depending on the specs of the original media.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
Anthony Bari jr.
January 17, 2011 at 1:13 am

try downloading the free Compressor Droplets on Apple.com
https://support.apple.com/downloads/Compressor_Droplets

A great way to start, does most of the work for you.

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Joe Bodego
January 17, 2011 at 4:04 am

thanks everyone, I downloaded Mpeg Stream clip and dragged the mpeg file in then choose Quicktime with a DVpro 50 setting, it worked but the DV predet didn;t I am about to try it again. I am beginning to like this program already.
Joshua Macfall
January 17, 2011 at 11:08 pm

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been using compressor for a while now and I feel a little silly for not knowing about Droplets! 🙂 Doh!

God Bless,

Joshua MacFall

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