Problem Final Cut Pro avi files

[Zane Barker]

You should not even attempt to edit avi files in FCP they are not compatible and will cause you nothing but headaches.

Convert the files to a proper editing format that is compatible with FCP.

Hindsight is always 1080p

[David Johnson]

Files with .rar extensions are archive files like .zip files, rather than video files … if someone sent you .avi files inside a .rar archive, you may need to use WinRAR to extract them (I don’t recall whether StuffIt or the Mac OS can read them), then convert them to a FCP-friendly codec as already suggested.

[David Roth weiss]

David is exactly right on all accounts.

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[John Fishback]

I believe MPEG Streamclip can convert avi to QT in FCP-friendly formats.

John

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