Final Cut Pro X Export as Quicktime Movie

[T. Payton]

Very odd. Try setting the codec settings to anything other than current. See what that does.

Also, what are you viewing the movie in? Drag it back in FCP X and see if it looks any different than Quicktime Player.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jared Jacobsen]

Hey, thanks for responding…Actually I’ve tried several codecs all with the same result. I tried dragging the corrupted .mov file (which I’m viewing on my mac) back into the timeline and it doesn’t look any different than Quicktime player. Any ideas?

The saved .mov file looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjwAtxYIeE

Thanks!

[T. Payton]

Looks like your video is private.

Is this HDV footage by any chance?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jared Jacobsen]

Sorry. Here is the link again…it should work now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjwAtxYIeE

I believe the footage is HDV…it’s from a Panasonic HPX-170 (which uses P2 cards)

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s dvcpro hd of you shot in hd.

Try trashing your render files, then quit fcp and trash your fcpx prefs.

[Jared Jacobsen]

Thank you for your response but I’m a little confused…so I should trash everything in my render folder for that project (high quality data, peaks data, and thumbnail media folders ) and then quit FCPX? I’m also unclear about the next step of “trashing” my preferences…

Thanks so much for your help…

-Jared

[Jeremy Garchow]

Fcpx allows you to trah the render files from the program itself.

Go to the project browser (command-zero) and then select your project.

Trash render files from File menu.

Quit fcp.

Download the free preference manager from digital rebellion

That will allow you to trash prefs with little hassle. Just trash the fcpx prefs.

[Jared Jacobsen]

Thanks so much…I’ll give it a try.

[Bill Davis]

Those clips play back EXACTLY like some footage that I imported early in my experiments with FCP-X.

Those were clips that started out as plain DV-25 Mac Quicktime files, but that I had re-wrapped as AVI files to make them accessible to PC based clients. When I imported them into X as an experiment, I got the same color snow that I see in your clip.

I guessed that X couldn’t quite figure out what to do with them since the nature of the compression and the ID tag were in conflict.

I solved the problem by transcoding them to clean Quicktime files in Episode – and they worked fine in FCP-X from that point on.

The experience is leading me to guess that the problem is that the original clips are encoded in a format that X can’t decode without a parser and that X isn’t set up to use such a parser during the import stream. (my problems existed even tho I have all sorts of transcoding utilities installed including Flip-4-Mac that theoretically “should” have decoded my AVIs into Quicktime before X saw them – but I guess that’s not how things work anymore.)

Core Video and AV foundation just don’t work the same as we’re accustomed to coming out of the Quicktime era – something we have to get used to, I guess.

FWIW.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Jared Jacobsen]

Thanks for your response. The strange thing is that the clips imported fine and played fine in the timeline. The problem occured when exporting…(later when I played around a little the problem began to occur in the timeline and appeared perhaps tied to the color correction because when I turned off color correction the problem disappeared – in the timeline anyway not in the exported file). I am going to trash the preferences and the render files and see if this helps. Do you have any recommendations based on your experience?

Thanks!

-Jared