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Rewrap MKV
I have a 1080p MKV file I want to get into Final Cut Pro. I know MKV won’t work in FCP and that it needs to be converted to something friendlier like ProRes. Right now I’m converting the MKV using Perian in Quicktime but it’s taking an extremely long time: it’s been 15 hours and it’s only halfway through.
There is a program called ClipWrap that re-wraps M2TS files for a quicker turnaround and I was wondering if there was something like that available for MKV files so I don’t have to re-encode.
Any suggestions?
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You can try to extract using MKV Tools to an MP4. You’ll still want to run that through Compressor to transcode to ProRes or another FCP-edit-friendly codec. Might be faster than what you’re doing, but I can’t be sure.
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The file extracted is an h264 extension Quicktime doesn’t know. I changed it to MOV and MP4 but that didn’t work either. MPEG Streamclip didn’t work either. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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That keeps it in an H264 format. I need a format I can edit. Thanks for the link though.
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So after nearly 48 hours of rendering into ProRes the video plays fine in Quicktime and in VLC, but when I put it in FCP the video looks as if it’s in slow motion. The clip properties say it is 10 fps yet in Quicktime and VLC it shows up as 23.97.
Any ideas why this is happening?
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It plays fine and says 23.976 frame rate.
Basically, what I’m trying to do is import footage from a Blu-Ray into FCP. The M2TS file ripped has a frame rate of 47.952 in VLC. This is double to standard 23.976 fps a Blu-Ray has. Not sure why, but this has happened with all the BR’s I’ve ripped thus far.
I want to keep it the same frame rate but unless I convert it using 30 fps I have all sorts of problems. Is it maybe advisable to allow it to go to 30 fps and then do a pulldown to 24?
The reason I’m using MKV is because it’s easy to convert to this from the M2TS file.
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This was my solution cause I was having the same problem.
1. Use perian to just save a .mov of the mkv (wrapped not transcoded)
2. Use that .mov and export (transcode) using quicktime to prores and force fps to 23.98
3. That then shows up in final cut as 10fps and when i drop into sequence audio is off
4. Make new sequence with what i want as my settings
5. Drop step 1 file (the wrap) into the sequence (should need rendering)
6. Drop the transcoded mov into that same sequence
7. Delete wrapped mov from sequence then render the transcoded onethats the only way I got to bypass the 10fps issue
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Headaches and long hours of waiting, tried Quicktime and Adobe.
I needed to edit footage from a 3 hour MKV movie. After 35 hours hardly halfway.
Rewrapping wasn’t an option because AE went berzerk trying to edit or render.I bought a program called Pavtube Video Converter (about 30 euro) and that did the conversion within an hour, with perfect quality and everything in sync. Lots of formats to choose from, including lossless/raw. Multithread conversion. So I’d bang a buck.
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Perian (you should have it) can do it and is free:
rafael
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