Final Cut Pro Problem

[Alan Okey]

What kind of camera was your movie shot with? Was it a DSLR? How did you bring your footage into Final Cut Pro?

I’m guessing that you edited h.264 footage natively in FCP, which would result in problems.

[Gabriel Lahovary]

Exactly. My friend told me he convert all his films to 422 ProPres if i remebered correctly. Its a bigger file when you hade convert and you always in the end export to H.264 so its strange but you get rid of all problems. Is this what ou also meent Alan?

The thing is that i never had this problem before. i have cut like 5-6 movies and took the h.264 file directly from my Canon 7D in to final cut. This is the first time this happened like its frozen or misscolured. My friend have had the same problem and never understod why.

Yesterday Final Cut acted really really strange. When i clicked on a clip it shown upp on the left thier you choose your in and outs. But on the right on the “timeline preview” another clip is shown, who is on a another place. And the same thing happenedes when i tryed to play the movie. Wrong clips are shown in wrong places. But when i just moved the clip upp and back to its right place its showing like it should be (excuse my bad english).

Have somebody ever had this problem? isit because i have the original h.264 file?

Are this an incommen problem when you have H.264 files in Final Cut.

[Alan Okey]

[Gabriel Lahovary] “Have somebody ever had this problem? isit because i have the original h.264 file?

Are this an incommen problem when you have H.264 files in Final Cut.
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If you search this forum for “h.264,” you will find hundreds of posts all saying the same thing:

FCP 7 and earlier have problems working with native h.264 footage. For best results, always transcode to ProRes first before editing.