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  • footage is skipping and jittery in final cut and quicktime and it has never done this before

    Posted by Michael Pike on August 10, 2010 at 1:29 am

    I have been editing a project in final cut pro 7.0.2 it has been playing fine and working good but i changed projects briefly where the file format is different and now whenever i try and play the projects again the clips are skipping and jittery and it is not just in final cut but in quicktime player as well and it as never done this before.

    the video files that are skipping their info is
    quicktime movie
    Dimensions: 1920x 1080
    codecs: H.264, Integer (little endian)

    Model Name: MacBook Pro
    Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
    Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
    Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
    Number Of Processors: 1
    Total Number Of Cores: 2
    L2 Cache: 3 MB
    Memory: 2 GB
    Bus Speed: 800 MHz
    Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03
    SMC Version (system): 1.27f2
    Serial Number (system): W882712JYJX
    Hardware UUID: 9124FA1D-BCE8-5189-A29D-73E8072CD286
    Sudden Motion Sensor:
    State: Enabled

    any suggestion as to how i can solve this would be greatly appreciated.

    Michael Gissing replied 16 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Michael Gissing

    August 10, 2010 at 2:13 am

    H264 is not an editing codec in FCP. Search this forum for Canon, H264, 5D or 7D and you will find that this problem has been answered on a sometimes daily basis for the past 18 months.

  • Michael Pike

    August 10, 2010 at 6:07 am

    how come it was working fine before hand though and it is only now that the clips won’t work properly?

  • Michael Gissing

    August 10, 2010 at 6:38 am

    [Michael Pike] “how come it was working fine before hand though and it is only now that the clips won’t work properly?”

    If I was that prescient, I would be running a religious cult with a tax haven on the Grand Caiman’s by now.

    Seriously, H264 runs like a dog always in FCP so convert to ProRes like the search told you.

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