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newbee, is this the right way of doing things?
I’m very new to FCP
Shot footage on a DSLR Canon 7D 1920×1080. 25 fps and used the import function in FCP not the log and transfer as it didn’t recognise the .mov
The canvas needs to be 4:3 so have made the sequence 1080×810 square pixels 25fps
The files seem to be imported to the browser tab fine, i’ve set in/out points and cut them. (apple ‘u’)
I dragged the file to the timeline and scaled the footage to fill the 4:3 screen (i am fine with sides being cut off) and hit the space bar to play it and a black and blue unrendered screen appeared so i couldn’t play it. – i read it may be because the footage and canvas don’t match. I then went to the sequence tab and rendered all video it now plays fine. – is this the right way to solve this problem?
and is this the right way of working?
– do you have to render all your clips to preview?
– i will need to colour correct at some point to make all the clips the same, do you do this at the end?
sorry if this seems like really silly questions.
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Everything here is wrong. The media from this camera needs to be converted to work in Final Cut. You need to get the Canon EOS plugin so the material can be ingested using log and transfer.
The sequence size cannot/should not be set to an arbitrary format. You need to edit your media in the specific format to which you convert it. Once it’s edited you can see about getting it into some other weird, non-standard size and format.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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What you may want to do is read up on “easy setups”. Your footage settings need to match your work space/timeline setups, or you’ll eb forever rendering. Try starting a new project, then importing the footage, and when you drag it to the timeline, the program will ask you if you want it to make everything match up as far as format, say yes.
If you are importing AVCHD or H.264 video files, Final Cut is not quite as modern as Premiere (yet), and can’t really work with those directly in an editing context; they have to first be transcoded into another, more easy format for the edit system. If you do that, most rendering issues go away.
In the log and transfer dialog box, you can for example check choices to have this footage changed into ProRes, which takes up little space but looks good.
If you can’t bring the footage in thru log and transfer, you can batch-convert them first in Apple Compressor, or even using Apple Quicktime or a free app like mpeg streamclip, or other means I’m sure another person will step up and explain better than I can.
And welcome to the COW!
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Watch this: https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
Then if you need a 4:3 safe guide to look at when you are editing, you can use the small hashmarks that FCP 7 provides….but they are nearly useless, so look at this:
https://web.mac.com/andymees/Free_and_Easy/main/Entries/2008/1/29_Andy’s_Guides.html
Edit everything 16:9, until you are done, then when you export/encode…that’s when you can crop.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Thank you all so much! this is such great help. Have done as you all suggest and seems to be working as it should now!
Just one more quick question…
With the ProRes settings. I chose ProRes 4444 as i will be outputting for a large conference screen is this excessive? and ProRes 422 (LT) is fine? – if it is fine do i need to re-import?
I’m working on a imac processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. memory 4GB, Mac OSX
Hoping the ProRes4444 won’t slow it up too much? are there problems using this?
but need a good quality output for the large screen.Thank you so much for your help so far.
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Hi Rachel,
If you are just cutting in FC, you have no benefit going 444.
Use 444 when you are heavily rendering in FC (don’t forget to set “Render in High Precision) and your picture has undergo further processing, or when you export from an application that renders in 16/32b.
Rafael -
ProRes 4444 is WAY to much. This is a very high end codec meant for uses that are far beyond a large conference screen. ProRes LT is fine for your use.
ReImport.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Thank you so much! i’m sure i’ll run into may more problems but you have really helped with this. thank you 🙂
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