PP mpeg

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PP mpeg

Posted by Donato M. rondinelli on October 14, 2009 at 4:44 pm

I have a mpeg2 clip from Premiere Pro, but I can’t play it in FCP 6. It was captured from tape through a Canon cam. The image in FCP is garbled. I have QT Pro with the mpeg plugin, but it just gives me a black screen. Streamclip will convert it, but I’d rather use it natively. I tried perain too, but that didn’t work.
Can I not use a PP mpeg clip in FCP?
Thanks,
-dMR

Donato M. rondinelli replied 16 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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Donato M. rondinelli
October 14, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Hey Dave,

I got the codec this morning. I installed, restarted & opened the file in QT Pro. Now instead of seeing a solid white screen, I see a solid black screen. That wasn’t worth $20 :o)

FCP still has a garbled image flashing different colors without sound.

Compressor just shows color bars.

Streamclip will play it & convert it. I may have to go with that.

The project/sequence is SD Kona uncompressed 8bit.

Maybe premiere is doing something to the file that FCP doesn’t understand? Maybe something got screwed up in the install?

Thanks,
-dMR
Donato M. rondinelli
October 14, 2009 at 7:21 pm

I was on 7.6.2. I updated to 7.6.4 & reinstalled the plugin. No difference.

The plugin says that it’s not compatible with mpeg transport streams. What is that? Is it a broadcast thing?

-dMR
Donato M. rondinelli
October 14, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Thanks for trying :o)
-dMR
Rafael Amador
October 15, 2009 at 1:30 am

I Donato,
You can try changing or deleting the extension,
You wont be able to play the audio in FC because, I guess, is MP2.
FC works with QT files. It can cope with certain kind of MPGs only.
Don’t waist your time and transcode to 8b Unc.
BTW, the Apple MPEG-2 component is unnecessary if you have installed Compressor or DVDSTP.
rafael

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Donato M. rondinelli
October 15, 2009 at 1:45 am

Yea, and PP is one of those unrecognizable mpegs. I did transcode but I forgot about the whole long GOP thing. The guy captured the whole 40 minute interview in PP to 1 file & gave it to me. After the transcode, my audio was out of sync. Fortunately I had him export a QT DV file from PP too. I loose the cool pan & scan feature but at least I have audio in sync.

Thanks!
-dMR
Dennis Radeke
October 16, 2009 at 10:24 am

Try using Premiere Pro to convert the file to something FCP can read. Depending on the version you are using, you could probably convert it to ProRes without much difficulty.
Graeme Benson
October 26, 2009 at 3:10 pm

Hi
Could you tell me please HOW to convert mpeg2 to pro ress 422?
I use fcp7 mac os x 10.5.8
thanks
Graeme Benson
Donato M. rondinelli
October 26, 2009 at 3:20 pm

This is how it’s done in ver 6, not sure about 7.

You’ll need to do it in compressor. Open the program & go to settings. In the folders, go to: Apple/Format/Quicktime. Drag & drop the Apple ProRes 422 setting on your clip.

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