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.mov is just a wrapper. The bigger and better question is what’s inside the wrapper (commonly called a codec). So you can have a .mov file that uses different codecs. It could be DV, HDV, XDCAM, DNxHD, ProRes, DVCPRO, etc. Each of those are different codecs that a .mov can contain.
So what codec is currently inside of your .mov file. Open Quicktime file and choose Window–>Show Movie Inspector (or command+I as a shortcut). A dialogue box will pop up and you can see the video codec listed in there.
FCPX plays well with ProRes as a codec.
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I was also told May 7 by my reseller today. Though, there’s nothing official from Adobe yet.
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Sounds like your sequence settings inside of FCP are messed up.
Make a new sequence. Right click on the newly created sequence and choose “Settings…” from the drop down list. Once that dialog box opens look in the lower left corner of that dialog box and click on “Load Sequence Preset…” In there choose the appropriate settings for your camera. Then you’ll have a sequence set appropriately. Now just copy your media form the old sequence into the newly created sequence. You may need to adjust the scale/distort of the newly pasted clips as they will have inherited whatever incorrect properties from the old sequence.
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Are your speakers on?! 😉 Kidding…
I have this problem from time to time with Premiere. My only solution has been to restart PPro or reboot the computer.
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You can actually upload a 20GB file to YouTube. Ultimately, once YouTube gets your file they will recompress it again. So playability isn’t as much of an issue since they generate different version of it automagically on your upload (360p, 480p, 720p if HD is uploaded and 1080p if so uploaded).
How long is your video? The biggest impact on your file size is the data rate of your video and the data rate of your audio. The higher they are the bigger the file. How that impacts quality depends on the overall frame size you’re dictating. So if you have a frame size of 1280×720 with a data rate of 200kbps total (both audio and video together) than you’ll have a small file, but poor quality. Conversely, if you have the same 720p frame size, but a total data rate of 5,000kbps then you’ll have great quality and a big file size.
I like Vimeo’s compression guide. I think it’s a good starting point for most people:
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This is only if you leave in the native mxf format, correct? What if you rewrap the file to something else – DNxHD or ProRes .mov?
Have you contacted Canon about the problem as well? Any word from them?
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Open Compressor, go to that setting that you created, tweak it, and then send it back out as a new Droplet.
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Are you storing your footage on your primary boot drive? If so, that’s not a very efficient way to work as that drive already houses your operating system. Work from a secondary drive. Leave your primary hard drive available only for your OS.
What type of footage is it – SD or HD? What codec are you capturing to? Is this from a tape – DV, miniDV, HDCAM, etc?
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I think there’s a lot of sacrifices made in order to get it sub-$3K. No XLR input, no HDMI out, no buttons to adjust settings (all touch screen), no ND filter, etc.
It also doesn’t seem like a very clean sensor at higher ISO’s. The videos online have visible noise at ISO 800…by today’s sensor standard that is pretty poor performance. But 2.5K resolution in RAW format with 13 stops of latitude for $3K may just be a great b-camera for a whole bunch of people (or maybe an A camera for some). I know I’m certainly interested…
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The BM site will load it just takes a couple of minutes. Give it time. They’re getting hammered today because of their announcements.
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/davinciresolve/
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