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Don’t do it in FCP, do it in Color.
Colour correction in FCP stinks, use the still store in Color to match up footage and to save space and time, don’t do it until you’re 100% which shots you’re going to use and your timeline is complete.
Good luck and happy grading!
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Have you tried running on another machine?
If not do so, if you get the same error message, then most likely it’s a corrupted file.
If you don’t get the same message, try reinstalling/updating quicktime
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Will we ever see the day of one universal codec for all?
No, I didn’t think so *sigh*
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Why show loyalty to a company who ultimately, couldn’t give a toss about professional users any more. Just get over it, get a PC and Adobe or Avid and move on.
Once you get over the anger at how much money you’ve personally put in to making Apple the largest company in the world, it really isn’t that bad; trust me, I know :-).
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I’ve tried resetting the prefs and I’m now fairly sure it’s a card problem, because when I import a clip from the P2 viewer even when I’ve marked the whole clip, it still gives me a semi circle as if I’ve only imported some of it.
Do you think there’s a fix for it?
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Yeah tried that, it’s definitely 50 as my camera can’t do 60, I’m at a total loss.
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Alas no, there doesn’t seem to be any problem with the MXF data. It’s strange, in the P2 log and transfer window as on the camera, it’s perfectly in sync.
The sequence and clip settings match, yet the audio goes out of sync by 3 seconds 9 frames in the first 20 or so seconds. Adjusting the picture to sync at that point, puts it out of sync at other points.
I went through an airport scanner with the P2 cards, I’m wondering if it’s that? But then why would it play fine in the camera and on the P2 viewer.
My mild panic is rising as the mystery deepens. Maybe I should post on the P2 forum? Though it does seem an FCP problem.
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No problem, what I meant by that is; as long as when I’m handed over footage, or footage that I shoot myself, can be edited straight away, without having to transcode to pro res, then I’m happy as transcoding takes time. Time is the commodity I sell to my clients; ergo anything that wastes time is a bad thing.
The short answer to your question about transcoding is no. However it depends what you’re doing to the footage, if you’re just cutting it together, then great.
But if you’re colour correcting, motion graphics, green screening or any other post production method then transcoding to pro res is advisable; as this will give you the best results as far as final quality is concerned.
Think of it this way, if you had a photograph in your digital camera and you wanted to put a picture of a night out with friends onto facebook, then the Jpeg would be fine. However if you wanted to blow up a 10 foot by 20 foot poster, then not only would you use a great camera and lens, but you would use the RAW files as that would give you the best quality.
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Hi Mohammed, I’ll try and answer your questions in order.
First off, you’re right when you say that H.264 is a delivery codec, however you have some DSLR cameras which shoot their images in H.264. This isn’t a problem if you’re using Final Cut X or as I’m led to believe Premiere.
If you are editing using FCP, then that is when you would convert your footage using the intermediate (editing) codec, pro res 444 (or 422 HQ) If you didn’t you would end up with a very jumpy, freezy timeline in FCP (not X).
H.264 is the best (in my humble opinion) codec for the web, though flv and mp4 are still in wide use, I find though it’s the least lossy of them all.
Remember that the difference between a clip that is prepared for the web and one that is prepared for a mobile device is mainly size. So you can use an h.264 for both but you’ll change the settings to more or less megabits per second, key frames etc.
As far as what’s the best RAW format for a camera to shoot in, I personally think that as long as it’s a pro RAW codec, then it’s OK by me, H.264 is a pain because I use FCP and so have to transcode to pro res, but ultimately the images will still be good.
The thing to remember is that RAW camera codecs will produce very large images and editing and ultimately delivery codecs produce smaller image files without (so the theory goes) losing quality.
To burn a DVD we use the Mpeg 2 codec and the AIC (AIFF) codec for audio; however burning an HD DVD is not possible, this is because of the size of the DVD 4.7 gb as opposed to an 8 gb blueray. There are probably other technical reasons as well, but seeing as I don’t work with blueray, I have no interest in them.
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Wow, I’ve never started such an informative thread before, my cup runneth over with info :-).
I’m soaking it up, watching the video and checking out the plugins. Many, many thanks.
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