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XDCAM EX corrupt video in FCP.. keep happening as i edit
Hi I was doing a huge project with XDCAM EX 1080p 35. I got the files from my client on a hard drive. I imported them with Clip Browser. As I go along editing.. I start getting blocky video and or dropout looking artifacts. I also was using footage from the web and stuff shot on HDV. I only had the problems on footage that was the XDCAM. I was using all the correct settings on my timeline. Sometimes when I rendered it created the problems, sometimes just the non rendered footage became corrupt, and it went back to the imported footage. I had to keep re-importing clips from the original. Clips that were clean on the timeline became corrupt as the edit went on.
Should I not use XDCAM as my sequence Settings? Would having a ProRes sequence solve this problem?
My gear:
Mac Book Pro 5,1 Dual 2.66
4GB Memory
Media Drive: Caldigit VR Raid 1 Running on SATA with 34 Express card.
Final Cut Pro 7.03 -
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[jason carey] ” I imported them with Clip Browser.”
You don’t use the Clip Browser to import XDCAM stuff.
You need the SONY Transfer Tool and import by Log&Transfer.[jason carey] “Should I not use XDCAM as my sequence Settings?”
Prores will be better.
rafael -
Sorry But I was under the impresson that you import using import xdcam from FCP and that it opens up the correct program and then you click on the card and then import all the files.. it thenimported to project.. is that the wrong way?
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You either use Sony’s XDCam transfer app or you use Log and Transfer in FCP.
As for using Pro Res, you can edit in an XDCam sequence, but in the render settings, switch the render settings to Pro Res. A feature only available for XDCam and DV. So you can keep your perfect native footage, and any titles or effects will be rendered in Pro Res. But just going ProRes across the board is a good way to work as well. I pretty much do everything in standard Pro Res these days.
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Sorry I meant XDCAM Tranfer.. that is what opens up when I import the footage.. the question is , what about the corruption of the footage as I edit?
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