[Glenn Pniewski]

Thank you sir. You’ve been my rock, reading through all these posts. . .

[Glenn Pniewski]

Again, Jeremy, you are the best!

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[Glenn Pniewski]

Thank you both. As a test, I ran a few files through Streamclip, converting them all to Quicktime ProRes 422; put them it into FCP 7, and it “seemed” to work. But, yeah, I’ll be working after hours alot on that office iMac (FCP X) just so I can sleep nights. Thank you again, good to be back here with helpful and learned mentors ~ Keep safe!

[Glenn Pniewski]

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Thanks, Jeremy. I was afraid that was the problem; can these mp4 clips be converted to .mov files in MPEG Streamclip? Or is just closing the barn door after the horse got out?

[Glenn Pniewski]

Many thanks to all. . .yeah, it’s a big learning curve, and I read/watch the tutorials, yet at some points, I’m still like “wait. . .what??” Thanks again ~

[Glenn Pniewski]

Sounds like a plan ~ like I said, shame on me, I should have thought of that!

Thanks again

[Glenn Pniewski]

Nick,

Just saw your post after composing my Tolstoy-ish message above.

What you say makes a lot of sense and I should have thought of that.

My other alternative, I suppose, is to take an archived DVD of the project. . .rip it. . .put it through a converter to give me either a .mov file or a .dv file. . .then import the file into FCP that way.

Again, guys, thank you much.

[Glenn Pniewski]

Tom, first of all, I thank you for your time!

This is a nine-minute piece I did about nine years ago. I archived the finished product out on DV tape; left it alone for all these years; now it’s something that I need to put up on our local municipality’s website. But I need to edit a few little quick things out. So I captured that 2002 “final cut” into FCP X; again, thinking it would come in as one nested sequence, one file, as it did in the “old days” of Final Cut.

Instead, it seems like it did a DV Stop-Start detect; the first clip that appears in the browser is called “2002-07-09 11:06:44”. But. . .that particular shot isn’t supposed to appear until a minute later in the “final cut”. The next file is “2002-07-09 11:23:25″…but, it’s not what is supposed to be the next shot. And so on, and so on. . .

So if I have to delete this, make some kind of preference change and then re-capture, no problem. But I need this to come in as one unbroken file. Again…is this the result of some kind of DV Start-Stop detection? And can I turn it off?

Just seriously confused :/

[Glenn Pniewski]

The entire, finished project was archived on Mini DV about eight years ago (using what was probably FCP 3 or 4 at the time).

Now I have an iMac, latest operating system, etc, and have the trial period FCP X. I wanted to go in and make a few little razor blade edits to the piece.

Imported through Thunderbolt/Firewire, running off a DV source.

What it did is detected all the clip dates contained in the finished project; then sorted them in date-of-shot order. I was expecting it to come in as a self-contained “sequence” (which is what I am used to in older versions of FCP). If I was to grab what is in the browser and put it in the (i’ll still call it a timeline), you’d have a puzzle piece mess. Clips from the end appear first (because that’s when those shots were taken).

There is a drop-down menu command that says “Sort by import date”, which I thought would solve the problem, but it doesn’t really do much.

(I wish I could do screen grabs, but I can’t. . .)

I guess what I am saying is, the browser looks like I dumped in a lot of stuff out of sequence that I now want to edit. But I don’t. It should have come in AS it came in. . .

So I thought maybe I should have changed a setting before import.. ?

Thanks again!

[Glenn Pniewski]