I’m at Wits End with the “WARNING: DROPPED FRAMES DURING PLAYBACK”

[Lawrence Richards]

The sequence settings from the sequence itself is 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i(16:9), H264

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Stephen Smith]

Just found Shane’s tutorial, here it is: https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

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[Shane Ross]

[Lawrence Richards] “I never logged and transferred anything.”

To quote your second post in this thread:
“The clips are from a DSLR but they were logged and transferred.”

Thus we assumed that you did things right and that the issue wasn’t really obvious.

[Lawrence Richards] “The raw movs were copied to the external hdd and then simply imported into FCP.”

BUZZZZZZ!!!! Wrong thing to do. This issue is brought up daily here at the Cow and elsewhere. People bringing in the RAW files from DSLR and thinking it’ll work in FCP. It won’t. FCP does not like H.264 files from DSLRs…at all. The big problem is that it SEEMS like it will. And that’s Apple’s fault. They did fix that in FCX, but not in FCP 7.

You need to convert the footage to ProRes. Use the Canon Log and Transfer plugin and use LOG AND TRANSFER, or use COMPRESSOR, or MPEG STREAMCLIP, or Magic Bullet GRINDER, or 5DtoRGB…something, to convert that footage to ProRes.

I thought we told you this before…must be my failing memory…

Shane
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[Lawrence Richards]

When I first started replying to this thread I did mention that I logged and transferred the footage. I was wrong about that and instead did what I’ve mentioned since.

I don’t think you mentioned the workflow before Shane – at least not to me – but I’ll get on that asap. Thank you all for the help.

Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Shane Ross]

Sorry, I mention it to a lot of people, and your pic looks familiar, I thought I set you on the right path when you first started posting.

Click here:

https://usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professional_cameras/digital_slr_cameras/eos_5d_mark_iii#DriversAndSoftware

Then click on DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE, choose the MAC OS, then your version of that, and click on SOFTWARE to get the EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro 1.4. That should allow you to use LOG AND TRANSFER. Please use the tutorial linked to by Stephen Smith….

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