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Importing Cinepak AVIs
I am working on a project where we are creating 3D scenes first from a PC program. This program can only export as AVI, which is imported fine into our FCP systems. However, I noticed that the settings with which the AVI files are being imported do not match those that are exported.
For example, 2 videos (exactly the same) were exported from the 3D program with a setting of 25fps, yet FCP is reading them as 17fps. One was exported with a Cinepak compression and another uncompressed – yet both files are read as being compressed with Cinepak codecs.
Anybody had any issues with this that they managed to resolve? Does not necessarily need to be AVIs or Cinepak compressed videos as I am sure it is a setting somewhere which is universal to importing files.
Cheers
Danny
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[Danny Fox] “am working on a project where we are creating 3D scenes first from a PC program. This program can only export as AVI, which is imported fine into our FCP systems.”
You should also be able to create a TIF sequence. This will work better in FCP. I’ve never seen a pro 3D application that could not create a TIF sequence.
Cinepak is a horrendous codec and should not be used for anything that will be edited. FCP does not like AVI files, all AVI’s should be converted to Quicktime.
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