HOW CAN I CONVERT A F4V TO A FILE TO BE OPENED IN Final cut pro 7

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HOW CAN I CONVERT A F4V TO A FILE TO BE OPENED IN Final cut pro 7

Posted by Dom Fisher on October 22, 2013 at 2:17 am

I’m in dire need, I’m asked this on many forums, this is driving me crazy. I need to send a f4v file to be opened on another computer in fcp7 in a apple prores project, i try converting- it don’t work pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssssseeeeeee hhhhhhheeeeeeeeellllllpppppppppppppp

is there a way?

Rainer Wirth replied 12 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Steve Eisen
October 22, 2013 at 5:18 am

F4V is an mpeg4/h.264 file. Compressor should be able to do it or MPEG Streamclip.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group
Dom Fisher
October 22, 2013 at 11:58 am

Hi Steve, Mpeg Streamclip doesn’t give me the option to turn it into Apple ProRes 422, it gives the option to turn into Apple Intermediate Codec but will that lose quality?…..

I don’t have compressor on my computer unfortunately as the directors computer I’ll send it to has FCP and I don’t. My project contains MOVs and when I go into Adobe Media Encoder and try and import the pro res codec under the quicktime selection it says incompatible video codec which seems to suggest it won’t let me make any pro res files because I don’t have FCP on my computer so is there absolutely no way of making a pro res file if you don’t have FCP.

The crux is I have this project file in Premiere Pro CS5.5 which contains the original MOVs and time adjusted movs that I nested and turn into F4vs, so it contains movs and f4vs with 1 aiff file and I need to send the work to the director(who has FCP7 and works on a Apple computer) so they can key out the green screen and grade it in FCP7. I don’t want to send them 1 big video file because there are a hell of a lot of fast flickering cuts so would be easier if they could view as a project file in FCP7 like I can see it in Adobe Premiere Pro. I haven’t done this before as you can tell but someone must of tried doing this before so how can it be done?

My project settings in Premiere Pro are

Editing mode: DSLR
Timebase 25.00 frames/second
FRame size 1920 x 1080 vertical 16:9
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Display Format: 25fps Timecode

Sample Rate:48000HZ
Dispaly Format:Audio Samples

Video Previews
Preview File Format I-Frmae Only Mpeg
Codec: Mpeg I-Frame
Width 1920
Height 1080
Rainer Wirth
October 22, 2013 at 7:50 pm

This is tricky. I would do the finish in Premiere,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
October 22, 2013 at 7:53 pm

Oh you can save the premiere project file as a transfer file and import it in FCP. Then relink to the original footage,

cheers

Rainer

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