What Sequence settings for Apple OpenDML JPEG?

[David Roth weiss]

Just run the clip into Streamclip and turn it into a QT DV file. DV compression won’t do anything appreciably funky to funky video.

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[Sean Kapleton]

I thought that as soon as you take it through another step it loses some quality – My next question is why would i use DV when i could use animation or Photo JPEG? Also why use Steamclip when i have QT Pro and/or Compressor?

I am interested to hear your response as well as the opinions of others in this forum

thank you

sean

[David Roth weiss]

Streamclip is free and it handles AVIs and many other non Quicktimes very nicely and very quickly.

You can convert to any QT format you like, but typically really grizley video shows no wear when going through DV compression. DV compression performs its worst magic on pristine text and graphics.

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[Joon Pontén]

Is there really no way to get around the conversion, which takes some time? I would typically prefer to work in the format it was shot in, and as it’s really not a gigantic dataflow I would think FCP could handle that?

What IS Apple OpenDML JPEG – a motion JPEG flavour or…? And why can QT Player play it without any problems, while FCP throws the red bar in my face?

Would be grateful for any clues on this, as I will be starting a project soon…

[Rafael]

That is a very interesting question. I shot also with my little Canon camera SD870. When I open iMovie ’08 it scans the hard drive in 1 minute and finds all the clips and doesn’t recompress!
So, I am using the export feature in iMovie >Share>Export to FInal Cut Pro XML.
But then when I opne via inport in Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, it imports the equence, but I can’t find to match the settings of my sequence to iMovie. But if I drag one of these .avi movies from my Canon into FCP, it plays in real time, no need to render. But only in my sequence, it seems that I have to render before playing.

I found iMovie pretty fast to derush these hundreds of Canon files, so that’s why I use it, as well my wife is OK with iMovie but doesn’t know how to use FCP.
Any thoughts?

[Joseph Banks]

Here’s a way to get your OpenDML jpeg clips into an FCP sequence without rendering, but you do have to convert the files to Quicktime first:

Convert to Quicktime with these settings:

Compressor: Photo JPEG
Quality: Best
Frame rate: 30
Dimensions: 640 x 480
Audio 11.024kHz, 8-bit, mono (or whatever is native to the clips)

Import the Quicktime files into your FCP project. Create a sequence with the following settings (copy a preset, set new parameters and rename it):

640 x 480 NTSC 4:3
Pixels: square
Field dominance: None
Compressor: Photo JPEG
Audio: 48Khz, 16-bit, channel grouped

Open each clip in the Viewer and drag it into your sequence timeline. When I did this there were no red bars and I was able to edit multicamera video tracks with no rendering, but when I tried dragging the clips directly from the browser instead – red bars. Go figure.

[Jon Burton]

Thanks, this seemed to work.

[Vickie Sampson]

I did everything exactly as you said but I still get the red bars. I’m using movie files from my canon A610 and they come in as mvi jpeg. Apple open DML jpeg 320X240.

I even tried going thru streamclip but i still get the red bars. I’m also on a powerbook G4 10.4.11 using final cut academic 6.0.6

any help is most appreciated!