Sony F5 import problems into FCP 7

[Shane Ross]

Your issue may be the Yosemite OS. FCP is a quicktime based application…that’s it’s core. Apple is moving away from Quicktime, and more towards AV foundation. QT7, which had many professional abilities (as well as the core of FCP), is not part of Yosemite. Yosemite uses Quicktime X…and even then, in the Yosemite OS, it can’t play back many of the codecs it could in Mavericks or earlier versions. features are being removed.

NOw, if you updated to Yosemite from previous versions, you might still have QT7, but it might not be working right because Apple is no longer supporting it, or taking it, or FCP, into consideration when it wrote the OS. IN fact, this is the second OS to come out since QT7 and FCP 7 were discontinued.

Solution…if you need FCP 7 to work properly, you need to run it on a supported OS.

Shane
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[Peter Vandall]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. So to keep using FCP 7, could I use Adobe Media Encoder to transcode the files to ProRes? If so, do I need to transcode everything in ProRes (Regular), save all that footage for online, then transcode that to Proxy to edit with?

Or can I just trancode to proxy first, then when my picture is locked, upres to ProRes (Regular) through media manager? In other words, is there a way to figure out what clips were used in my final picture locked sequence to only transcode those to ProRes instead of all the raw footage?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete

[Shane Ross]

[Peter Vandall] “So to keep using FCP 7, could I use Adobe Media Encoder to transcode the files to ProRes?”

Yes. I guess it depends on what format was shot…XDCAM or XAVC? I know that EditReady converts XDCAM…not sure about XAVC. If XAVC was shot, you wouldn’t be able to use FCP to import at all. Might even need to resort to RESOLVE. How will this be finished? Graded and output?

[Peter Vandall] ” If so, do I need to transcode everything in ProRes (Regular), save all that footage for online, then transcode that to Proxy to edit with?”

All depends on what this is for, and how much drive space you have.

[Peter Vandall] “Or can I just trancode to proxy first, then when my picture is locked, upres to ProRes (Regular) through media manager?”

Nope…won’t work at all. Once you transcode outside of FCP, the FCP offline/online workflow doesn’t work. So you’ll either have to convert to full res and work with that, or use something like REsolve to convert to an offline res, and then online with Resolve…send an EDL or XML to reconnect to the master footage.

[Peter Vandall] “In other words, is there a way to figure out what clips were used in my final picture locked sequence to only transcode those to ProRes instead of all the raw footage?”

Not if you do the conversion outside of FCP 7…unless you use the Resolve workflow for initial transcode, and ultimate finish.

Shane
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