Final Cut Pro codec/setup/rendering problems!

[Kate Perkins]

Re the codec error:

Final Cut does not do a good job with H.264 in the timeline. H.264 is a delivery codec; it was not intended to be an acquisition codec. (But it looks good so consumer cameras started using it to record.)

One way you could work around this is to batch transcode your footage into ProRez (or another codec) BEFORE importing into FCP. Compressor will do this, and I believe Cinema Tools can also do this. If you’ve begun editing already, you can re-link your clips to the new media as though you were switching from offline to online footage.

You could be running out of memory because it’s writing a lot of render files. When you sort this out, I would trash the old render files.

Blackmagic is a company – sounds like that option is a preset for people using their hardware.

Hope this helps. -Kate

[Kate Perkins]

Yes I forgot Mpeg streamclip – this is also a good program for transcoding footage.