[Paul Guy]

Anyone have it going the other way? I’d love someone to post a final cut pro keyboard settings to use in premiere!!

Thanks

[Paul Guy]

I am having this exact same issue.

The short answer is iMovie imports it fine and I think it is because I upgraded FCP 6.0.4 to 6.0.5.

The long…

I have a Sony SR12 and shot a feature with it last summer, no problems with a Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 workflow. Log and Transfer used to work. The issue is not in the timeline because the .mov file itself has the jitter, and as previously mentioned, iMovie 7.1.4 imports the clips without issue.

Now I, like many people, would rather have my clips in ProRes (and without the extra iMovie step) so I would like to get it working again. I also tried changing the L&T settings in FCP to use Apple Intermediate Codec just like iMovie and no luck.

I have posted clips https://files.inventfilm.com/issue/

There is a full res of both the FCP version (164MB) and the iMovie one (142MB), as well as smaller H264 versions of each (11MB each).

I haven’t changed any settings so I don’t know what else it could be. The only change has been from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5.

I also tried re-importing clips that I recorded last summer. I have kept on the camera the first few things I ever recorded (these files imported fine the first time), and they now have the jitter issue. I did this so we know it’s not just recently recorded videos that have the issue.

[Paul Guy]

Thanks ghikikomori,

At least now I know I’m not crazy. I am sorry that you are having the same problem, but I am happy that it’s not just me!

[Paul Guy]

Wow.

Thanks again for all the information. I will pass this on.

[Paul Guy]

I understand having to ask, but yeah I had it on remote. And I have even tried local.

And I tried three different cables, all of which work on other external drives and decks.

Thanks anyway.

[Paul Guy]

btw the director just told me he recorded in with a varicam in 1080.

[Paul Guy]

To be clear,

My main problem (I think) is that I can’t get FCP to recognize the deck.

I had a DVCPRO50 deck in recently and everything worked perfectly fine (import/export/passthrough).

With the AJ-1400, it doesn’t matter what settings I try in FCP (Device Control: Firewire NTSC, Firewire Basic, DVCPRO HD Firewire), I always get the External A/V error:

Unable to locate the following external devices:

DVCPRO HD (1080i60) (1920 x 1080)
DVCPRO HD Out

Your system configuration may have changed, or your deck/camera
may be disconnected or turned off.

Please check your connections and click “Check Again”, or click
“Continue” to set external device selection to None.

[] Do not warn again
Continue Check Again

[Paul Guy]

Hey,

Thanks JS for the info. I wasn’t there for the shoot, but the tapes read as 1080i on the deck.

When you say “Firewire import only at 720p” are you saying that I should try to import at 720p or that the AJ-1400 can’t import 1080i through firewire, at all… like ever?

[Paul Guy]

Thanks for the help.

I did have it on HD_SP, though.

As a side note I don’t want to downconvert.

I want to the same quality/format that is on the tape. I know this is “technically” compressed, but I want the highest quality from the tape that I can get, and preferably all through firewire.