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Green Line, Red Ants
I am working on a project and am having an issue that I hope someone here can help me with. I was given QT videos and have placed them in my project. When importing into FCP I get a warning that the files are not optimized for FCP and to recapture to improve their performance for multi-stream playback. Recapture is not an option for me. When I bring them into the timeline, I get a green horizontal line with red ants at the bottom of my Canvas window as well as the yellow warning triangle. I have applied a broadcast safe filter and everything looks good, the line, ants and triangle go away but when I move the playhead it all comes back. This was shot with a Canon DSLR and saved as QT movies(I don’t know with what settings). Do I need to run the clips through a converter to make them usable or is there another workaround to get past this? If I need to covert, what should I use and what settings should I use? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
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5 Replies
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See if cropping the bottom a 0.2 or 0.5% helps.
If so, edit as it is, and crop your master before exporting.
rafael -
Hi, Todd.
If it was shot on Canon DSLR, I think it is H.264 compression. You need to convert all your material to Prores codec using Compressor. Use the same resolution and frame rate as your H.264 material. Apple Prores codec is much more friendly for editing than H.264.Linas Grubys
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Thanks for the info, I will give the conversion a shot and see what happens.
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I am using the FCP 4 suite (Version 2 of Compressor) and it does not have the Prores codec. Is there another way to convert with Prores or do I have to upgrade my FCP suite?
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The best option for a mere transcoding of H264 is 8b, but will make the files much bigger than Prores.
If you want to work with that kind of footage, you need to upgrade.
FC 4.5 can never works well with QT7, and I don’t know if you will be able to move 8b Uncompress.
You can try with PhotoJPEG at 75%. Anyway you don’t gonna have any RT chance.
Cheers,
rafael
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