That DVCPROHD Re-Import Scurge

[Bill Bilowit]

Finally some progress with my three DVCPRO HD 1080 23.98 timelines needing to export out and come back into a fresh timeline as single clips, for a feature length final cut.

I used a suggested fix from an earlier thread that had not worked for me, but made an adjustment. I end up recompressing, but I seem to have no choice not to.

1) Exported my timeline with current settings as a ref movie, only took a minute or so.

2) Opened that ref FCP QT in Quicktime; under Properties-Video Track I changed the scaled size width aspect to 1280, unchecked Preserve Aspect Ratio, saved, renamed the file. Made sure it opened again in QT as a 1280 wide clip.

3) Imported this ref movie into FCP, from the browser exported it as FCP QT but instead of current settings I selected the format I’m working in (DVCPRO HD 1080 24). [I did not export with Quicktime Conversion]

4) Imported the resulting FCP QT (about a 50min. render for a 30min timeline) and it plays fine in a fresh sequence.

Another suggested workaround was to simply export the original timeline and choose Recompress; it didn’t work for me, plus that render was 25% longer duration than the total adventure described above.

If anyone ever finds a consistent cause of this issue, or even better a better fix, make a post please!

[Matthias Halibrand]

Hi,

that problem seems to be partly fixed with FCP 6.0.2, there is still a glitch in it however.

When opening the exported clips with QuickTime Player and hit CMD-J, it should show Normal Size as 960×720 and Display Size as 1280×720, as it does with anamorphic PAL (720×576 and 1024×576) but it does display both as 1280×720.

But at least the FCP-Workflow is correct, again.

[Bill Bilowit]

Thanks for following up…

So do the resulting natively exported clips play on your timeline, or must they be rendered?

[Matthias Halibrand]

They play native without rendering needed.

Regards,

Matzehali