[James Taylor]

I don’t own QuickTime 7. Was hoping to do this without buying anything else. QuickTime 7 doesn’t come with FCPX or Motion 5 – does it?

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks Fred,

To be honest, I just wanted to capture my footage from my MiniDV tapes before I donate the camera. Most of the footage is home movies of the kids my wife shot. I just want good quality footage that I can edit sometime down the road.

I’m capturing the footage form a Canon Elura 50 (all the tapes where captured with this camera). FCPX recognizes the camera fine. I just want to capture it and then store it on an external drive. Not many choices with FCPX on how to do this. I assume it’s capturing it as ProRes 422? Kind of overkill, but I figure FCPX will convert it to that anyways when I get around to editing it.

The footage comes out fine, and I can certainly edit it in FCPX. The problem is that I happened to try and open A clip in QTime and there was no audio. That doesn’t really matter too much, except that I started wondering what would happen if I decided to move to another editing software – will the footage be compatible? I don’t want to spend a lot of time capturing the footage and then have to do it all over again (if I even can as I won’t have the camera). I did try opening the footage in AECS5 and was able to get audio. So, worst case I would probably have to convert all the footage if I used something besides FCPX to edit later on.

I have a new (8 weeks old) 15″ Macbook Pro – this should be fine I would assume? 7200 RPM drive and 8 gigs of ram. 2.2 GHz Core i7.

Thanks for any help!

James

JT

[James Taylor]

Craig,

I actually don’t have QT7pro. I assume it doesn’t come with FCPX? Is there another way to do this?

JT

[James Taylor]

Craig,

I”m at a complete loss. That was the info for one clip. All I did was plug in my Canon Elura50 to grab some old home movies my wife took of the kids. I opened FCPX and went to import from camera. It recognized the camera so I clicked import. There really weren’t many options to choose from, I didn’t see an option to choose what kind of audio. I imported the entire tape and everything played fine in FPCX. I happened to open a clip later in QT and noticed there was no audio. I did try to capture another tape and I selected the remove silent audio channels, but that didn’t seem to make a difference. I guess it’s not such a big deal, but I may not do anything with the footage for awhile and I may end up using a different program then FCPX. I just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t have to re-import everything later because it worn’t work in another program (won’t have a way to import tapes later as I”m giving the video camera away to someone that needs it). The clips seem to open fine in AECS5, so worst case I would have to take everything through there at a later date. It just seems weird that FCPX brings it in as such a weird setting?

Thanks,

JT

[James Taylor]

Here is what it says:

General
Complete name : /Users/Taylor/Desktop/2004-04-03 17_02_28 (id).mov
Format : MPEG-4
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
File size : 7.78 MiB
Duration : 2s 69ms
Overall bit rate : 31.5 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:29
Tagged date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:31
Writing library : Apple QuickTime
com.apple.proapps.manufacturer : Canon
com.apple.proapps.modelname : ELURA50
com.apple.proapps.clipID : 52F7521B-DD09-4453-B85B-E9AD0A21C16C
com.apple.proapps.ingestDate.des : 2011-07-27 14:34:29 -0700
com.apple.proapps.originalFormat : DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
com.apple.proapps.mediaRate : Unknown kind of value!
com.apple.proapps.timecodeFormat : Drop
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate : 2004-04-03T17:02:28-0800
com.apple.quicktime.make : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.model : MacBookPro8,2
com.apple.quicktime.software : Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Video
ID : 2
Format : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Codec ID : dvc
Duration : 2s 69ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 704 pixels
Original width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:1:1
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.411
Stream size : 7.10 MiB (91%)
Title : Core Media Video
Encoding settings : wb mode= / white balance= / fcm=auto focus
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:29
Tagged date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:31
Material_Duration : 2102
Material_StreamSize : 7560000
Material_FrameCount : 63

Audio #1
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Unsigned
Codec ID : lpcm
Duration : 2s 69ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 2 048 Kbps
Channel(s) : 4 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 517 KiB (6%)
Title : Core Media Audio
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:29
Tagged date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:31
Material_Duration : 2135
Material_StreamSize : 546680

Audio #2
ID : 2-0
Format : PCM
Muxing mode : DV
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 2s 69ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Delay relative to video : 133ms
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Audio #3
ID : 2-1
Format : PCM
Muxing mode : DV
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 2s 69ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Delay relative to video : 133ms
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Menu
ID : 3
Title : Core Media Time Code
Encoded date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:29
Tagged date : UTC 2011-07-27 21:34:31
Bit rate mode : CBR

JT

[James Taylor]

All of the clips play in Quicktime – none of them have audio.

In VLC, the clips with sound showed the spectrum meters. The clips with no sound in VLC did not show the spectrum meters.

All the clips play fine in FCPX.

JT

[James Taylor]

I just opened one of the clips that would not play in VLC or QTime into AECS5 and the sound works fine.

JT

[James Taylor]

OK, this is very weird. I randomly pulled several clips to the desktop (copied from the FCPX events folder). Two of the five clips opened in VLC and had sound, the others opened, but did not have sound. Garage Band would import them, but with no sound. iMovie tried to import (copied them to the iMove folder), but would not show them in the project. Still wondering why FCPX will play audio just fine, but no other program will play the audio?

Thanks,

JT

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks Tom,

Yes, I used FCPX to capture it. I didn’t check any of the boxes (proxy files or separate silent channels).

QTime says:

/Users/Taylor/Movies/Final Cut Events/New Event 7-27-11/Original Media/2004-03-23 08_50_31 (id).mov

DV, 720 x 480 (640 x 480), Millions
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), 4.0 (_ _ _ _), 32.000 kHz

29.97

38.6 MB

30.82 Mbit/s

640 x 480 pixels (Actual)

JT

[James Taylor]

Michael,

That would be awesome!

JT

JT