[Mary Molina]

Yo Brian! So I figured it out! It was my own silly oversight. Basically, I had changed the playback settings in FCP because the previous project I was working on had quite a few, very large, still images in the cut, at very short intervals. Thus, the settings were something like: Safe RT, Low video quality, and Quarter frame rate. I had forgotten to change them back. I did, and presto– the ProRes footage and the 8 bit footage work just fine.

Anyway. Thank you so much for all your help. I’m sorry this turned out to be such a dud of a tech-exchange.

All the best,

M.

[Mary Molina]

Hey Rafa. So I transcoded to 8 bit in Compressor and I got the same result: it played back fine in QT (as always), but then when I import to FCP, it stutters during playback.

I’m starting to think maybe there’s something off with my footage… but I’m hard pressed to think what that may be.

Thanks for your help. Let me know if you’ve got more thoughts.

M.

[Mary Molina]

Hey Brian. Thanks for the response. I transcoded using the ProRes422 Progressive preset in Compressor, however I’m still having the same problem: the files play back fine in Quicktime, but stutter (or lag) as soon as I bring it into FCP.

As per your suggestion, I tried creating custom settings for the timeline, but I keep on running into timebase and codec issues: it won’t let me change one, once the other is set, and vice-versa. Additionally, I’m wondering if the timeline presets are indeed the remedy, since even when the file is in the viewer window, it stutters on playback.

Any more thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

M.