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Mixed media and music
Hello everyone,
I have two questions. First, I’m having difficulty importing music into FCP from iTunes. I’ll navigate for the song, choose it to import and I get the following error message: “File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown.” Anyone have any idea what this means? It happens a lot with other cues as well.
Also, I recently purchased a JVC GY-HM100 HD camera that’s tapeless and records to quicktime files. I experimented with different formats during a test shoot and imported the quicktime files into FCP. I’ll cut the first few clips into a sequence, FCP asks me if I want to conform the sequence to the resolution of the clip, I say yes, and everything’s fine until I cut in a clip with a different resolution, then I have to render it. I thought FCP was supposed to play all (or at least, most) formats in real-time?!?!?!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Atticus
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[Atticus Brady] “First, I’m having difficulty importing music into FCP from iTunes.”
Because music bought on iTunes is not importable into FCP. Copy protected due to the fact that FCP is a professional editing application and you need the rights to music before you can use it in professional productions. There are workarounds to getting this though… But you need to make sure you have the rights to the music before you use it in a project you show to any sort of audience.
If you rip a CD, make sure you rip it as AIFF 16 bit stereo. FCP only works with that format of audio…and broadcast WAV files…but that isn’t an option in iTunes.
[Atticus Brady] “FCP asks me if I want to conform the sequence to the resolution of the clip, I say yes, and everything’s fine until I cut in a clip with a different resolution, then I have to render it. I thought FCP was supposed to play all (or at least, most) formats in real-time?!?!?! “
Right…FCP makes the sequence match the first clip. Add a clip of another type, and some sort of render will be required. But, if it is another format that FCP supports, then you might get the green or at MOST the orange render bar. If it is green, you can play it back fine. It is lower resolution until you render it, but it should work. Orange is iffy, it might play, it might not. But it will drop some frames or really drop the resolution.
FCP can deal with multiple formats…but again, they have to be SUPPORTED formats. What you see in the EASY SETUP list. If it isn’t, then you’ll get a RED render. If that is the case, convert the format you are trying to use to one that FCP has…at this point you might as well use the same codec you are editing with.
What is the format of this other QT movie?
Shane
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You can also just use the tracks right off a CD. They’re 44.1, but no bother, just do an item level render on them in the timeline to conform to 48.
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Thank you gentlemen for answering so promptly! I shot on all the same QT format, just different horiz and vert resolutions, all of which are accepted by Final Cut. I do indeed get the green bar above those clips that differ from the first clip that establishes the sequence setting. This confused me as I was expected all clips to be grey. Not the end of the world, it’s just rendering those clips can take a while. Oh well. As for the music, I figured it was a copyright issue. I’ll deal with it. Thanks so much!
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