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Martin Macdonald
September 24, 2010 at 7:08 am in reply to: black frames between cuts

Hi,

I stopped having this problem after i began converting everything to ProRes 422 before doing any editing. I’m not sure if this is why the problem went away, but it only ever happened with super 8 footage that had been scanned in HD with some open source codec that FCP didn’t seem to fully understand. Once i started converting to 422 straight away… no more black frames!

Hope that’s of some use.
Cheers
Martin Macdonald
December 11, 2009 at 8:50 pm in reply to: black frames between cuts

Hi Lara,

I went ahead and did a whole bunch of exports using different settings, taking various notes. I found that exporting as Photo-jpeg had perfect results. I’m still not sure why though! I have quite a few more of these little projects to do going from HD scanned super 8 film out to dvd, so it’ll be interesting to see if this happens every time. I will have to give your method a shot next time. Thanks for the tip!

Martin
Martin Macdonald
December 9, 2009 at 9:41 pm in reply to: black frames between cuts

And a further 2 years (almost!) on… i am having the same problem.

In my case i’m going from a 1080p film scan (some at 18fps, some at 24fps) to PAL output and it seems to be resulting in two black frames at every cut.

Did anyone stumble upon a solution/reason?

I’ll be trying to sort this out until it works, so will post my results in case any other FCP-newcomers like myself run into this.

Cheers, M