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MP4 and m4v into FCP — not a new one !!
Howdy Cowers !
Ok before we get going yes I know about MPEGstreamclip very well – what I have is a really odd problem.
We are a Post House in London and do loads of Mood Tapes and Pitch reels which use elements from movies – NOT FOR RESELL.
So our old workflow was ; DVD play -> SDI ProRes onto XSAN -> Edit -> Archive = Nightmare on searching and project file sizes, Duplicate media etc etc etc
I started using Handbrake to create MP4 and m4v – could drag entire movie into FCP and BINGO BANGO all was brilliant !! as this was not going to broadcast the quailty rocked.
Step 2 was to intergrate Final Cut Server – enter metadata – Burnt in timecode so the producers could do soft Edits — worked a dream, I am now ready to retire …. but wait.
SOME of the MP4 and M4V will come into FCP some wont – same machine same settings no updates no idea ????
All of them open in Quicktime no worries and I can’t for the life of me see whats going on, issue is we have over 500 movie titles ingested no and the only way around it is to open in MPEGstream clip and export ProRes AGAIN !!!
Any Ideas ?
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[Craig RussillRoy] “SOME of the MP4 and M4V will come into FCP some wont”
MP4 is not an editing format. If you just export with current setting and without rendering, it shouldn´t have problems, but if your sequence needs to be rendered, you never know how FC will behave.
Having your stuff as Prores, why don´t you use it?
rafael -
Cheers for the response – I totally agree the format isn’t a great editing format but to ingest 500 movies at prores would be many Terabytes ….
The files are unable to import into FCP – Some of them will import and can go straight into a Prores Sequence …. issue is some import in some don’t very weird —
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