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Flicker/strobe while editing Aiptek HD footage
Got one of those consumer level Aiptek HD camcorders as an unexpected christmas present, and I want to integrate it into my final cut workflow as a stunt-camera.
The camera records in H264, and although final cut pro will edit the files, it has to render the audio and while I’m editing, the footage flickers with stroby, white frames, which is more than annoying. If I export a quicktime movie, the stroby frames remain, but I found a work around where if I export “using quicktime conversion” and h264, then the flicker is gone.
So my delivery file is okay, but I’d like to be able to edit without the flicker (and maybe without having to render audio). Anybody have any experience with this problem? Any ideas?
Thanks,
–Adam.
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H.264 is not a production format. I’m surprised it’s even working in FCP. Convert the material using Compressor into a standard video production format before you bring it into the editing application.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I’ve done this, it works, but it means I’m taking a 70mb file (the original h264) and turning it into a file that’s nearly a gig. Do you have any suggestions for keeping file-size down, without degrading quality, but still having a file I can work with in fcp?
I’m coming from a background in using uncompressed HD, but that was when I was working with a 7tb storage solution. Now I’m mobile, trying to squeeze as much as I can out of my 250gb macbook drive, and since the files I’m working with are already compressed, I’m hoping I can kind of/sort of keep them that way, while still actually being able to edit them in fcp.
–Adam.
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