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[Michael Gissing] “The Spherico tool looks good but I am not resending back to X or Pr these days mostly but if a client wants it and will bother to use the tool then that’s great info I can pass on.”

It also works great for stripping effects prior to import in Resolve, to reduce the false compounding.

[Eric Santiago] “Now I wish FCPX had the old legacy join/merge clips option.”

It’s in there… assuming the two adjacent clips are sequential in the master clip – third one down in the Trim menu.

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This looks tough to beat for a buck:
https://sellfy.com/p/phtl/

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[John Watts] “There is an old 2009 log and transfer plug in for fcp7, and there is something called clip manager (which i downloaded and seems to suck)”

My experience with camera maker’s tools has been similar to yours. There are exceptions, of course…

[John Watts] “Gotta believe there is a way to do this without manually converting sh**tons of clips for days. So, trying to avoid 3rd party apps, if possible. Just can’t find anything current by JVC. “

If they’re actually MPEG2, you won’t have a choice. But if it’s some odd flavor of mp4, they may just need re-wrapping, which EditReady excels at. Have you tried throwing a few clips at Compressor to see if it recognizes the format?

Also, VideoSpec will help – not developed anymore, but still works great (for now):
https://videospec.free.fr/english/

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Hey John,

Did you get to try importing from the camera card, or did someone pull the mp4s and toss ’em loose in a folder?
*EDIT* – Those may be MPEG2 encoded. See if you can open one with VideoSpec to see what you’ve actually got.

EditReady may be able to re-wrap or transcode those for you regardless… very handy tool.

Camera downloads page:
https://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/software_dow.jsp?model_id=MDL102154&feature_id=17

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I also use it regularly, and can corroborate Joe’s findings. Had this problem last week on a 30p animation (matching timeline frame rate). Timeline showed unrendered optical flow sections but was able to output successfully.

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Can they get a metadata dump from Brightcove?

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[David Davis] “I imported them off of the SD card through final cut pro and ejected the disk. The files were completely imported into their own events with specific names. There were no messages that the import had failed or anything of that sort. I was able to view the videos on FCP and they were definitely imported. I left the application open for a day too so that is could automatically back up. Meanwhile with the SD card, I put it back into my camera and formatted it so that I could have a clear card to film some more with it.”

Couple of questions:
– How long after import did you eject the SD card?
– Was the SD card still mounted when you verified that they imported?

I think maybe your video clips were not yet fully copied when you unmounted the card and reformatted it… as a rule, always make a copy/archive of the entire card before importing and reformatting.

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The Sonnet reader works really well – transfer a full 64GB card in about 10 minutes. If you’re going to be dumping P2 cards often, it’ll pay for itself in saved time.

I’ve also kept one of my old PowerBooks with PCMCIA slot, which still reads and transfers perfectly, and is faster than anything Panasonic offers to boot.

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[Ryan Neuman] “It looks good for the most part without any of that grainy/liney footage that I first talked about but I do notice somewhat of a motion blur(?) or something when there’s a lot of movement.”

What you’re seeing is burned-in interlacing. I wonder if overriding the field dominance is the culprit… my thinking is that by essentially telling FCPX to ignore field info and read as progressive, it’s getting burned in. You’re probably also seeing this on your master output file.

I’d go back in (just as a quick test) and reset the field dominance on a clip or two to the proper value – probably top first, leave Deinterlace checked – and export a short clip to see if that gets ‘er done.

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Looks like an interlacing issue.

Either you’ve got progressive footage in an interlaced timeline, or interlaced footage in a progressive timeline.

If your project is progressive, select that first shot and go to the ‘Info’ tab of the inspector, Settings view, and tick the Deinterlace checkbox. That should clean it up – verify that setting for each clip in the timeline.

If your project is interlaced, you’ll want to change it to progressive (changing the project frame rate only works on an empty timeline, however you can switch from Interlaced to Progressive with an existing edit) and then make sure that all of your interlaced shots have that Deinterlace setting active. You can change it in the browser before you start an edit, just be aware that changing the setting on the master clip in the browser won’t affect the bits that are already in a sequence. Anything after that will be groovy.

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