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iPhoto Slideshow Export to Final Cut
I’m a professional video editor, who’s been using iPhoto to organize my personal photos. I’ve created some Quicktime slideshows, and now I’m trying to import them into Final Cut Pro to add music and graphics. I’ve been using iPhoto for a while, and I’m not interested in using anything else to organize my photos, so suggestions to use other software is not what I’m looking for here.
My problem is that Final Cut won’t allow me to import the files from iPhoto, as it tells me that the Quicktime movies iPhoto has created aren’t compatible. It tells me the file is unrecognisable…but Final Cut is the ONLY program I seem to have that won’t allow me to import the files! Why is this happening, and how do I get Final Cut to recognize these files?
I haven’t been able to find any answers on how to get these files into Final Cut. Any suggestions?
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3 Replies
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Did you use Export > Quicktime in iPhoto and just set a duration ?
If so these quicktimes you created actually have each image on a seperate track in the quicktime file with a crossfade trk that has info on when QT mixes from one to another. It must not be a compatible format for FCP to have a QT with a cross fade track.
All I can suggest is loading the qt from iphoto into QT player then using Export to flatten the movie into one single track. But!.. you will loose the cross fades doing so. Imprt FCP.. razor them to cut up then insert dissolves..
Or just import all the stills into FCP and do dissolves. This way you can vary the duration also as it seems iphoto is stuck to a single duration for all dissolves.
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If that doesn’t work…just bring the QT file into MPEG Streamclip and export from there. You have numerous export options, most of which are excepted into FCP.
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Hmm…streamclip will work? I’ll have to try that! Thanks!
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