Nicole Haddock
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We just had some weird problems with Compressor kicking out Quicktime errors on some transcodes. Now, while not directly related, I did some googling and found a random suggestion to delete iTunes and Quicktime, download and reinstall. Now I didn’t do a complex delete of either program, just killed it out of the program list. I also turned off sharing in the Quakemaster preferences in the System Prefs. After a reboot? Everything was happy. So kill your iTunes before doing a system wide reinstall and see what happens.
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By any chance is your computer set to sync to an iDisk of any sort? Some of my machines used to sync up automatically and I would notice some system issues. It’s the only other thing I can think of that might be FUBARing the system other than what’s been said here.
Out of curiosity, what happens when you start a new project, and copy/paste all the contents from the buggy one into a fresh project? Could work, I’ve seen crazier things happen!
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FCP is not made to edit h.264 quicktimes is the short answer. I would use Compressor to convert them to standard quicktimes using the Advanced Format Conversions bin to whatever they need to be (depending on what they are as .AVIs).
If it’s screen captures, I would go either Animation or Pro-Res. Both codecs allow you to keep the image fidelity of the original and you can do pretty good zooms on the material without loosing alot of quality.
FWIW, when we need to do Windows captures, we actually do it on a Mac running Parallels and use iShowUHD to do the screen captures, which captures natively to ProRes or Animation codec. Not sure if that’s really an option for you, but thought I’d toss it out!
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It’s tape or a P2 card? And you need to kick out the raw footage or a finished cut?
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You can do a standard screen grab and then crop it down in Photoshop- Apple+Shift+4 which then gives you a cross hair to drag around whatever you want to capture. File will show up on your desktop in TIFF, PDF or PNG format.
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And the manual says that camera can receive a signal from a computer and record? I have run into the odd mini-dv camera here and there that doesn’t seem to do this, or at least not easily. Are you doing everything the Manual says to accomplish this?
When in doubt, trash the preferences, restart, re-render the timeline and try again.
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That’s what all my HPX and HVX clips say too, but they look fine on monitors and in the computer. No panic attack necessary!
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I think if I could take away one feature of FCP, it would be the QT Conversion option.
Export to Quicktime, then do whatever compression you need.
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If you’re working on FCP 6 or later, start a new sequence, drag an HD clip into the timeline, and let FCP auto-conform it to the HVX footage. Then copy/paste all the relinked media into the new timeline, which makes sure everything will be happy, and with all the footage still selected, right click and remove attributes for Basic Motion and Distort and all should be good.
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FCP doesn’t work with MPEGs, as you’ve seen. Next time convert the file to a Quicktime using MPEG Streamclip or your converter of choice and you should have audio.