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.rm file in to FCP help
A client just sent me some files with .rm extensions that need to be edited. I can open them via Real Player but I can
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You can’t edit .rm, nor can you convert.
Real Media is really only meant for web delivery and playback, not editing.
The best you can do us use SNAPZ pro to capture the video as it plays back thru Real Player. But then quality is REALLY suffering. The fact that they are .rm means that the quality isn’t all that hot to begin with.
Why did they send you .rm? Can you get them to send you the footage in a different format? Quicktime preferred.
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Hi Shane,
Thanks for the info about Real Media. I already have the request in to get a different file format. I have no idea what they were thinking by sending me a Real Media. With this client everything is via the web including the finished product. I have had the garbage in / garbage out talk with them 3 or 4 times.
I request uncompressed AVI or QuickTime and they send me compressed 360 x 240 Mpeg. I blow it up to full frame, render, edit, and send them back a Sorenson compressed 360 X 240 and they have been happy. They don
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