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t2i glitches in fcp7
Hello.
I am working with footage from t2i for the first time with fcp7. The footage I was given comes from the t2i they are MVI.MOV files.I first noticed that any transition I laid on them made the footage skip underneath. I rendered to a quicktime movie to see if this showed up. Worse. The footage stutters and a green color solid flashes.
Is there a conversion process that may have been skipped.Can you not work with the footage straight off the camera which is what it looks like I’m working with?
I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.
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AAAAAAGGGGGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!
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FCP and Avid Technical Support
Air Post Production
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erm, sorry.
I mean – the codec from the Canon camera can not be edited in FCP and must be transcoded first.
Use any one of the following…
FCP Log and Transfer
Compressor
Mpeg Streamclip————————
FCP and Avid Technical Support
Air Post Production
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I appreciate you taking the time to respond (ultimately) in a nice thoughtful fashion. Please remember I was given this footage and it sounds like I’m screwed? Is there any chance of coming away with a decent video. Maybe just with no transitions?
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You’re not screwed. This is actually how you are meant to work with the camera within FCP.
If you still have the original folder structure from your camera I would recommend that you download the Canon E1 Plugin from the Canon or Apple website and use FCP Log and Transfer. It’s the most fool proof way as the video is created within FCP for FCP.
Otherwise I would use Compressor and one of the ProRes presets.
(The reason for my initial reaction is that this is a very, very common problem which surfaces many times a day on the Creative Cow – maybe you just didn’t know the relevant term you were searching for)
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FCP and Avid Technical Support
Air Post Production
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“I am working with footage from t2i for the first time with fcp7. The footage I was given comes from the t2i they are MVI.MOV files.
I first noticed that any transition I laid on them made the footage skip underneath. I rendered to a quicktime movie to see if this showed up. Worse. The footage stutters and a green color solid flashes.
Is there a conversion process that may have been skipped.Can you not work with the footage straight off the camera which is what it looks like I’m working with?”
Facepalm.
“I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.”
Double facepalm!
Had it occurred to you to go to the Canon web site and look at the camera specs?
https://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_rebel_t2i_ef_s_18_55mm_is_kit?selectedName=SpecificationsThere you will see:
Image Format
Still: JPEG, RAW (14-bit, Canon original), RAW+JPEG
Video: MOV (Image data: H.264, Audio: Linear PCM)A quick search of the forum for “H.264”.
https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=h.264&f%5B%5D=8
Would yield 3,753 results. I’m guessing at least half of them would be situations just like yours.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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[Kat Nofs] “I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.”
Really? No offense but they are all over the place on the FCP forum. Questions about editing footage from DSLR cameras are asked multiple times a day.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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Go to this site to get the plug in to Log and Transfer the footage:https://www.finalcutuser.com/?p=1829
Then you can turn it into ProRes and it will work great. The native T2i Quicktime files will not play good in FCP.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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Thank you Stephen for your helpful answer.
For the rest of you I don’t know what’s more redundant . Someone asking the same thing on a \\\”help\\\” forum, or someone taking time in their obviously busy working day to give a condescending, uninformative answer.
This is a public forum, I\\\\\\\’m sorry I couldn\\\\\\\’t provide the exciting, dynamic, new question you are hovering over your laptops to discover.
If that\\\\\\\’s not the case then you\\\\\\\’re just lying in wait to prey on the next poor guy who has an honest question and would like more specific help than one can find doing a search.
Either way, it\\\\\\\’s sad:( -
Relax Kat. There are many fine people here who have gone out of their way to help, all for free. But some issues are covered so many times that they get frustrated when people either can’t or won’t bother to search.
Yesterday there was a post about H264 and advice on how to ingest for FCP, so you will understand why many of us are getting a bit tired of answering the same thing. Don’t bite the hand that feeds so often and so generously.
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