[David Biederbeck]

Sorry to waste your time. I wasn’t thinking of it as camera stablization.

[David Biederbeck]

Final cut couldn’t read the .m2ts format the video was in.

So the answer is no, final cut isn’t intuitive enough to recognize your video for you?

Ok, so how do I know what options to pick, there are tons of them!

[David Biederbeck]

HAHA! Hit it on the head!

Couldn’t figure it out… CMYK… Print designers die hard.

[David Biederbeck]

PS, for more info, I tried it @ 1080 p, wide screen, exported it as a .mov

It was a huge file as I was messing with using the vanishing point in photoshop, and exporting it as a .vpe.

[David Biederbeck]

Ok. So… I am just being flat out honest, I am a logo designer, and never had the full master collection or final cut until christmas. I only used design suite, and mainly stick to illustrator and photoshop.
My wife upgraded me,

So… I don’t even know what a codec is.

1. What is a codec?
2. In the future, what should my first go-to codec be? (*a simple link will be fine, I understand this is amature but I am so enjoying AE that I feel I will be spending much more time here so I would like to know all I can know about it)

3. Is it normal for playback to be rough on a quad-core 2.6 with 4 gigs of ram?
– PS. I burned it to a dvd and it looks fine. Brought it into final cut and it looks fine

Thanks in advance! you guys are really helpful here.

David.

[David Biederbeck]

Thanks, I was only watching it on quicktime. I Have a new quad-core imac, and it never occured to me that it wouldn’t be able to play it back. But you were right, when I imported it into final cut, all the frames were there.