[Mary Van develde]

[Jon Baum] “Jon Baum”
I pulled out old MacBook Pro which runs OS X El Capitan and Final Cut Pro X version 10.3.4.
I imported some of the clips with the video issues and I do not see any problems.
I’m afraid the Apple guy was correct and after the Catalina update my camera is no longer supported. Do you know of any other apps similar to EditReady I could try?

[Mary Van develde]

I just spoke to Apple Final Cut person and he basically said too bad. Says my camera is no longer supported by final cut. I had no issues until I upgraded to Catalina, but I can’t go back to the previous OS because when I upgraded my Time Machine backups were wiped out. Of course, they try to gaslight me. Saying I must have done something. I’m so fed up with Catalina and Apple.

[Mary Van develde]

Thanks for the info about the updates. I didn’t get any notifications about them, but found them and upgraded. I re-imported the video from may Canon XA10. I also still see the same artifacts. I tried the trial of EditReady and it did seem to fix the problem. The trial version only allows you to do clips of 1 minute and I don’t want to buy it. I haven’t had time to call Apple. I will try to do that tomorrow. Thanks for your info. This is very frustrating.

[Mary Van develde]

[Jon Baum] “Mary – what was your camcorder make/model of the footage that you imported into FCP and observed the video glitches? It appears that Canon may be singled out as a source of the issue, for now.
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John,
My camera is a Canon XA10. I drilled down like you suggested and looked at the video in Quicktime and did not see the glitches there. I also looked at the video through my camera and I didn’t see disturbances. I shot video with my GoPro and my iPhone for this project, but the only video disturbances I see are when I edit the video shot on my Canon.

I used to be able to import video from this camera by just putting the SD card in my Thunderbolt Dock, but now when I do that I do not see it anywhere on my MacBook Pro. I don’t use Compressor.

I had some issues with importing to Final Cut right after I upgraded to Catalina in late October, but when I talked to Apple it looked like the issue might have been more related to my use of SD cards between cameras and not formatting them properly. This is really the first video I’ve imported and edited since then.

My background is more producing and writing. I’m doing more shooting and editing for personal projects now. I don’t have a deep technical knowledge of Final Cut, so I really appreciate help from knowelable people like you.

Thank you.

[Mary Van develde]

I’m so glad to have found this thread. I have noticed this problem in video I recently shot and realized it only began after I upgraded to Catalina. I’ll contact Apple Final Cut to find out if they can offer help.