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Probelm when importing quicktime clips and general error message
Hi, I’m new to this forums. I have two problems that are driving me crazy.
I’m doing an internship from home with Univision, and one of the producers sent me an external hard drive with tons of content for me to edit and play with. The hard drive is a Lacie d2 quadra connected to my Imac through Fiewire800 port. I have a new 27 inch Imac with Final Cut Pro 7 installed.
Now I read that the clip settings have to match the sequence settings and I’ve been trying to do that but it’s not working.
For example, here are some of the clips settings:
frame size: 720 x 480
vid rate: 29.97pfs
Pixel Aspect NTSC-CCIR 601
Compressor H.264
Audio 48.0 HKzHow can I match that to the sequence settings? I keep getting a red line on the timeline which means I have to render all the time? Anyone please help 🙁
I’m getting another error, anytime I import some clips and try to play them on the viewer window I get “general error” message. All the clips play fine in quicktime
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6 Replies
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H264 does not edit well in FCP.
You should transcode to another codec such as dv, dv50 or ProRes using Compressor.
Jeremy
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oh man I imagine it would be something like that, there’s 435 gB of content with the same settings =/
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[carlos aguilar] “here’s 435 gB of content with the same settings =/”
Better go get another hard drive 🙂
Jeremy
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So there’s absolutely no way to get around this if I dont convert it? =/
what about that “general error” message?
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[carlos aguilar] “So there’s absolutely no way to get around this if I dont convert it? =/ “
Correct. General error is probably because FCP doesn’t like the files.
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It’s working now for some reasons lol, I didn’t have to convert anything. On all my audio/video settings I changed everything to Apple Res 422 and now it works perfectly/ Thanks anyway 🙂
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