[Eric Snyder]

My apologies for the double post. I suddenly lost power in the process of the first posting and wasn’t sure if it actually posted.

Some digitized files (from mini-DV) that I have show 44.1 khz in the inspector. After hours of searching online for a solution I finally found an unexpected one: use iMovie. iMovie can identify tapes with time code problems that Final Cut cannot, as well as handle the audio format 44.1 so that it plays back. And, for reasons I still don’t understand, it automatically formats these files for 48 khz.

I still don’t know why these digital files show audio sampling at 44.1, but technically now I don’t need to know since I found a solution.

Thanks for your help anyway, Michael.

Eric

[Eric Snyder]

This is mostly starting to make sense to me now. The uncompressed(?) 13.02 GB file is located in my Final Cut Pro Documents > Capture Scratch folder.

I take it that a primary reason for this two-part file size system, at least in the context of Final Cut, is that the larger file sizes would be unwieldy when editing in a timeline.

Thanks a lot Alex for your help.

[Eric Snyder]

“When you open the file in QT(you may have to do open with) and do command/Apple + I what does it say?”

***It says that the Data Size 13.02 GB. That’s encouraging to me, but when I do a command/Apple + I when the .mov file is just sitting on the desktop, the file size comes out to 678.5MB.

“If the display size matches the actual size in QT you are seeing it as it was exported.

What are the Codec/size? DV? 720×480?”

***mini-DV 720×480 If I view the QT movie as “actual size” command/Apple 1, it appears to be roughly width=7 inches, height=5.

“Does it match your sequence settings?
Do your clip settings in FC match your sequence settings?”

They appear to match.

So, after poking around a bit with the help of your questions, I guess my big question now is how to understand the two different sizes for the same file: 678.5 MB [desktop command/I] and 13.02 GB [QT Movie Inspector].

Thank you very much for your help.

Eric

[Eric Snyder]

Self-contained–I will make sure and make the appropriate setting. Thank you!

[Eric Snyder]

I expanded the quicktime viewer window to as large as I could get it on my 24″ display, and the quality looked reasonably good.

[Eric Snyder]

Thanks for the question.

I could be wrong, but I believe I tried both.

I’m guessing the self-contained file would be larger? Do you happen to have a rough guess on the ratio of the size difference?

Thank you,
Eric