Rafael Amador
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There is no file format from any camcorder that you can drag and drop directly to FC.
AVCHD and friends (H264), needs transcoding.
Probably the most FCP friendly are the XDCAM based formats. They don’t need transcoding, but re-wrapping as QT.
SONY, JVC and Canon have camcorders based on those codecs, but I don’t know if there is any on your price range.
Have a look to JVC.
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[Hal Masonberg] “Nothing from Photoshop, but I do have color and Magic Bullet, Neat Video effects. Maybe they are not compatible?”
That could be an issue.
I work too with NeatVideo and I found problems when applying it with some other effects.
rafel -
The first you need is to know if you are shooting Interlaced or Progressive.
If you are shooting progressive, you don’t have to care about deinterlacing.
You said ” it’s just the lower camera quality setting that has become the problem”.
Is possible that that camera is shooting Interlaced.
If so, without proper deinterlacing, that footage won’t look well on computer screens.
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Yeah, I don’t think so.
All the files inside a DVD are interrelated, and inside the VOB beside the Video and Audio information I guess that there is a bunch of metadata. Even if you can make new VOBs with new audio (thats possible) I guess you would screw the metadata that allows the navigation.
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The “Codec not found” doesn’t really means that you don’t have the codec installed.
Are you using any graphic from Photoshop or so?
Make sure they are RGB and not CMYK.
That is one cause the “Codec not found” error.Try something very simple that quite often fix some issues: Use the “Save aas..” function and save your project with a different name.
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That haped long ago to Jeremy Garchow, but since then I haven’t heard again of this.
No idea how to avoid it.
Make sure that the Scratch Disk is set to keep the renders on a proper place.
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[Jeani Oosthuyzen] “I’m running final cut pro 7.0.3 and am trying to sort out my easy set up and system preferences to import my MOV files from my Canon SX220 HS but i can’t seem to find the right settings for my media to work. also,should i be bringing files in through cable directly from my camera or is it ok to import straight from my SD card?”
That’s the way to go with tapeless formats.
Use the Log&Transfer option.
Before starting, you should have a look to this:https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1
rafael
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[Travis Roesler] “I have to pay for this data, and in a perfect world, I will have millions of people watching! I guess at that point, a little data transfer cost won’t bother me at all. “
Then you could try Vimeo PLUS or something similar.
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You haven’t said which picture size are you streaming.
If you are exporting 1920×1080 or 1280×720 stuff at 512Kbps it can’t look well..
If you are exporting something like 640×364, should look pretty good.
For 1280×720, you should allow between 3000/5000Kbps.
Whatever you are trying to export, make sure that your set “KEY FRAMES: AUTO”, and process MULTIPASS.
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The issues are very different.
On the first case he is getting a “Codec Not Found” error.
That’s is to expect when he is importing to FC a 3500×2500 Prores movie.
That size is not supported by FC.
In the second case he do not specify his setting, but he is also getting the same error.
Nowhere they say they are forced to render in 8bRGB.Try opening a new NTSC DV sequence, set Prores as the codec and “Render in High Precision”, then copy and paste the stuff from your first sequence.
[Hal Masonberg] “AS for JPEG, I originally rendered it that way. And there ARE effects in the motion tab. Many of them. Does that mean I shouldn’t bother rendering in Pro Res at this stage? Will it improve the image at all? “
The point is always avoid recompression. If rendering is needed will always be better to do it to a less compressed codec, and Prores is less compressed than PhotoJPEG.
The ideal would be to render to Uncompressed, but most times is not a practical solution die to the big files size. If your movie is not too long and you have no problem about storage, you can try so.
rafael