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Iphone Video into FCP – basic workflow
All just thought I’d post a few comments on iPhone 3GS video.
The codec that the iphone uses is H264 and can be dropped directly into FCP. You will have to rotate it by -90 degrees though if you shot in landscape. The aspect ratio will also need to be corrected especially if you are in an anamorphic timeline. It also needs a render. I also think the framerate is stuck at 30 FPS
How do you get the video into FCP??
Two methods I’ve tried
1) Download via USB & iPhoto
This will get the original file from the iPhone. You have to go into iPhoto and download as you would a photo from a digital camera. Do not go browsing through iTunes – you won’t find it!H264 480×640 filesize 4.9MB
2)Email your edit computer
This sounds like a good idea, but your phone will shrink the image and the resulting file will be a lot smaller resolution wise.<
H264 360×480 filesize 1.1MB
I was pretty impressed by the quality for a phone, no doubt somebody will shoot a whole feature film on one, very soon. 🙂
Peter
BTW my cat alice was fast asleep as usual!!
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Just wait…Zacuto will have a full iPhone rig and RedRock Micro will have some lens adapter in a few weeks. And this place will be FULL of yahoos asking “How come the video I shoot on my iPhone isn’t native on another Apple product, FCP? That is stupid.”
Did you convert it, or edit it outright? WHy can’t I have the new iPhone? Wives…
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Don’t need to convert, it drops right into the timeline audio included, portrait though.
You do need to render 🙂Peter
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HI, Peter.
in the interests of scientific investigation :), i downloaded the larger file,
and brought it into FCP.according to FCP, the clip is 29.97 fps, with a frame size of 480×640
i opened the clip into QuickTime, opened the video track visusal setings amd rotated it (and saved)
the clip now comes very nicely into FCP as 640×480.
in an “i-phone native” sequence, the picture doesn’t need rendering,
but the audio does.
any effect at all on the pic requires rendering, but that’s H264 in FCP for you.in an NTSC PRores sequnce, i get the orange render line.
(2x3G Octcore w 4G RAM)cheers,
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That is one very handsome and and very pooped kitty, Peter!
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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Interesting, for me, rotating in QTP loses the aspect ratio even with the preserve button ticked.
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A Miami TV station has used the new iPhone 3GS for an entire story, albeit about the iPhone, but still includes interviews, and standups.
Now what we really need is an XLR adapter!
https://cbs4.com/video/?id=78304@wfor.dayport.com
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Yesterday I played around with bringing iPhone footage into FCP decided a quick transcode made sense for editing in a mixed media project. If on the other had I were just editing iPhone clips (no other sources,)letting FCP just adapt the sequence to match the footage would seem logical, especially given the file size differences. If I recall my 50MB mpeg transcoded to about a 500MB Apple ProRes SD. Playback on my external NTSC display didn’t work without a transcode, instead I just got the playhead frame. Rendering would of course work, but then you’d have to re-render constantly.
https://hindsightproductions.org
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Is anyone else having audio drift issues with video from the 3gs? We find that a 30 minute clip plays just fine in Quicktime player, but when brought into final cut pro the clip has several seconds of drift over thirty minutes. This is before it’s ever placed into a timeline, and the issue persists even if we transcode to prores 4:4:4. Duplicated in FCP 6 and 7.
Any insight greatly appreciated; everyone in our shop is stumped.
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i’m having strange issues editing my iphone video in final cut. the files play in my viewer, though sometimes upside down (and when paused, appear right side up?). and then when i drag these clips to the timeline, they won’t play without being rendered, and not a quick render either. like 3 minutes for a 30 second clip. this makes it very hard to edit. any suggestions?
thanks,
jack
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