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Dwight Cenac
September 20, 2011 at 3:22 am in reply to: Anyone know why FCPX is choosing to pixilate this clip beyond recognition?

Other P2 clips. The result is the same whether that clip is compounded or not, and I even tried compounding the clip with the rest of them and adding effects and got the same result.

I just transfered the file over to my PC and rendered it out in Premiere as an uncompressed .mov file. Not surprising, Premiere had no problem working with the file. Now I’m going to see if FCPX will work better with it as an .mov.
Dwight Cenac
September 20, 2011 at 2:40 am in reply to: Anyone know why FCPX is choosing to pixilate this clip beyond recognition?

P2 is Panasonic’s High Definition technology used on their HD cameras, notably the Panasonic AG-HVX200 (which I recorded on). It’s quite common among professional editing systems.

The specs on my iMac:

1) It’s brand new.
2) It has the 3.4 GHz quad-core i7 processor
3) 4GB DDR3 memory
4) It is running OS Lion 10.6.8

If I’m forgetting something, let me know.
Dwight Cenac
September 20, 2011 at 2:06 am in reply to: Anyone know why FCPX is choosing to pixilate this clip beyond recognition?

I played it in the panasonic p2 utility player and it plays fine.

Let me clarify: It plays fine in Final Cut Pro X UP UNTIL I add an effect or transition onto it.

I have a strong feeling the problem is coming from whatever FCPX is doing to render the effect/transition, and has very little to do with the integrity of the file.
Dwight Cenac
September 20, 2011 at 1:16 am in reply to: FCPX inexplicably causes pixelation on some clips but not others. Huzzah!

Ah, see? Another glowing piece of evidence that I am both blind and dumb. Thanks for the link!
Dwight Cenac
September 20, 2011 at 1:15 am in reply to: FCPX inexplicably causes pixelation on some clips but not others. Huzzah!

All of the files are the same format, industry standard P2 files imported right off my Panasonic HVX200 onto the latest i7 iMac running Lion 10.6.8. Oh, did I mention I’m working on Final Cut Pro X? Did I need to mention that? Does that help? Oh, and the monitor’s REALLY big. Does that help? I also did this while eating home made fried rice and veggies. Actually, I didn’t. I don’t eat until after 3pm when I’ve worked out my cardio. Does that help? Anything else you might have to guess, let me know. My favorite color is rainbow.

I’m sorry. I thought the fact that the program is picking and choosing how to treat files despite the fact that they are the all the same (and not corrupt) would be evident enough that it’s a problem with Pro X and not what machine I’m on.

But I will be the first to admit that I’m an absolute moron when it comes to Apple products. And sometimes, I’m just a moron. I usually work with Premiere Pro for this very reason.