Finding editing marks

[Shane Ross]

[Jeremy Rafuse] “I imported a sequence into final cut pro”

A SEQUENCE? From where?

[Jeremy Rafuse] “some H.264 video I have to edit”

That’s FOOTAGE, not a SEQUENCE. A sequence consists of one or more media files edited together.

[Jeremy Rafuse] “however the editing marks are gone.”

Media files don’t contain edit points. They are single files. Are you talking about a media file that was exported? A sequence was edited, and then exported as an H.264 file? Well then, it won’t have ANY edit points. Edit points aren’t carried in exported QT files. You have one file.

[Jeremy Rafuse] ” Is there some feature in FCP that will show me the editing points? Or do I have to mark them myself. “

Mark them yourself. But convert the H.264 to an editable format first. h.264 isn’t an editing codec. Best to get the ORIGINAL source material, and original project file.

Shane

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[Gary Askham]

As Shane says you need to change it to something other than h.264.

(is there a way to put a huge banner across this website saying “h.264 is not an editing codec!!”)

There is an application called Scene Detector that will analyse your video and cut it up for you. I have never tried it and don’t know if it’s any good… but that’s what it says it’ll do.

https://scene-detector.com/

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