[Ahilan Ratnamohan]

Wow. Thanks for the very detailed guide.

For this time round I’m just going to stick to the way I’ve done it til now. The results to date have served my purpose. But it’s good to know all this for the next time.

Thanks again,

Ahil

[Ahilan Ratnamohan]

This is perhaps the problem: I don’t shoot and am not at all up to speed with the codecs etc… I just edit. My video guy shot it with a Canon 7D or 5D not sure. I get “MVI_XXX.MOV” & “MVI_XXX.THM” files from him and I just drag and drop into the timeline (Final Cut Pro 7), it always says that the sequence settings in the sequence are different from those in the file, would I like to change it to match the file.

So I don’t use any codecs. On that topic, should I be using another method?

Anyway I just checked the settings and that seems to be, at least the first, problem.

This clip was somehow changed to 720×480.

But while we’re at it, these are the settings I normally work with.
Are there things I should be setting differently?
These edits are mostly just for posting on Vimeo, but I do usually make a copy to export to DVD.

Thanks for your help for these very beginner questions.

Ahil

[Ahilan Ratnamohan]

Thanks I’ll give it a read and look at EditReady.

Best,

Ahil

[Ahilan Ratnamohan]

Hi Shane,

I thought I’d tag onto this post to ask you this.

I was given some footage from a cameraman recently. He had converted it from MXF to MOV (using Avid) so that I could use this in FCP7, but I am getting codec errors. He also gave me the original files, but these do not come, as you’ve described, with the ‘CONTENT’ folder and the LASTCLIP.txt. He’s confirmed that he never changed this btw.

They came in an ‘XDROOT’ folder, therein are a bunch of folders, CLIP, EDIT, GENERAL, SUB… and some XML files.

Do you have any idea about how I can tackle this issue?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Ahil