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iMovie export to Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, settings?
I don’t want to have to recompress my files…
There must be a way, unless Apple is screwing again its own software…I shot with my little Canon camera SD870 hundreds of clips. When I open iMovie ’08 it scans the hard drive in 1 minute and finds all the clips and doesn’t recompress!
So, I am using the export feature in iMovie >Share>Export to FInal Cut Pro XML.
But then when I open via import in Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, it imports the sequence, but I can’t find to match the settings of my sequence to iMovie. But if I drag one of these .avi clips from my Canon into FCP, it will play in real time, no need to render. But once in my sequence, it seems that I have to render before playing. I am trying to match my preset sequence to the imovie, but I don’t know which one.I found iMovie pretty fast to derush these hundreds of Canon files, so that’s why I use it, as well my wife is OK with iMovie but doesn’t know how to use FCP.
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Hi Rafael,
If you bring .avi files to FC they must always be rendered.
I think that iMovie recompress as well because iMovie works with a proprietary format: DV Sequence (.DV).
Anyway I think that bringing a iMovie sequence to FC is not that easy as long as the .DV files don’t support TC. The same happens with the .avi that you get from your Canon.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
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I’ve heard “download”. I’ve heard “suck-in”. But never have I heard, “De-Rush”.
People. People. Stop making stuff up!
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Kevin,
glad to hear you are the “teacher” here to notify people when they use bad language.
As for the verb derush, I made a too fast translation from a french slang used by editors, from the word “rushes”, the action to select which rushes to use. Excuse my french.btw, you must know how to answer this problem, aren’t you a pro editor?
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Mr. Macho, I was only kidding!
As Rafael said, you have to convert those .avi’s to quicktime. check out: https://www.flip4mac.com/
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
iMovie keeps its internal clips as DV stream files, which is video and audio interleaved together. Final Cut can handle these file types, but needs to render the audio into a separated track, before it will play back. Final Cut deals in multiple tracks of video and multiple tracks of audio, each treated as a unique entity within the editing environment, so DV streams need this “breaking apart” step before you can proceed normally.
-moo
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