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Aaron Robertson
September 27, 2011 at 4:57 pm in reply to: Exporting Using Quicktime Conversion

Thanks Tony. I exported it with quicktime in FCP, but the file is pretty huge (6GB for a five min clip), meaning I can’t put it onto a DVD or youtube. Does running it back through conversion shrink the file any? Also, is there a “best” way to do things in conversion that will prepare the clip for DVD or youtube?

Thanks,

Aaron
Aaron Robertson
June 21, 2011 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Loading SD card footage into Final Cut Pro

Thanks to everyone for their responses. This forum has been a great help to me over the years. However, I finally figured out that all I had to do was update FCP. Apparently I was running FCP 6 and I just needed to update to the latest version. It would be nice if FCP had some site that would specifically tell you what each error message means and whether it could be fixed by a simple update. Oh, well thanks again.
Aaron Robertson
June 21, 2011 at 12:15 am in reply to: Loading SD card footage into Final Cut Pro

OK, so I backed up the files and tried to open them from the hard drive rather than the SD card directly and I’m still getting the “invalid directory structure” message. All the file clips on the SD card were shot in the same setting 1080/24p. Is there any other settings in FCP that could be causing this? Or do you think it has something to do with the clips themselves?
Aaron Robertson
June 20, 2011 at 8:38 pm in reply to: Loading SD card footage into Final Cut Pro

I’m choosing the actual card files not the back up. Do I need to copy them to a hard drive first and then choose the backed up files? Thanks.
Aaron Robertson
June 20, 2011 at 5:26 pm in reply to: Loading SD card footage into Final Cut Pro

So, I watched the tutorial, but it doesn’t address how to fox my problem. I went onto the SD card and deleted the 720p/60 clip so that all the clips on the card would be the same. And I was actually incorrect in my previous post, the rest of the clips were shot in 1080/24p not the 1080i/60 I previously mentioned. Anyway, I still can’t get FCP to recognize the files when I try to import them. All it gives me is an error message saying the files I want to bring in “have an invalid directory structure”. Do my capture settings need to be different or should I be shooting in a different format?

Aaron