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Youtube trouble
Hey everyone!
I am trying to rip a video from youtube for a sketch that I am making (just for fun, you know, practice :D) but I am having a problem with importing the youtube video to FCP.
I have done research on it and I know that I should have a .mov file and so I used Zamzar and keepvid to try to download them.
Once I downloaded them, however, I was unable to work with the video in FCP (I tried importing it and it just says “unrendered” and gives me beeping noises)
is there any way around this or a way to fix it? I surmised that it could be because of the different video format from the youtube video clashing with my FCP timeline, but I want to be able to work with it in FCP.
I thought that perhaps I can render it, then re-import it into FCP but rendering takes a long time so I have not yet tried it 😛
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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[Nader Shidfar] “I thought that perhaps I can render it, then re-import it into FCP but rendering takes a long time so I have not yet tried it :P”
If the codec is not much editable, this is the way to go.
Rafael -
I believe you could rip footage from YT as either .flv or .MP4 – and the latter is of a better quality.
You can take that and put it through MPEG Streamclip [free to download and very useful], encode it to maybe DV50, go out for a coffee/lunch [depending on how fast your computer and how long the footage is], then come back and work with the now FCP-compatible footage.
Kai
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