[Stephen Reese]

Thanks for the response Todd. This one definitely throws us for a loop since all other tape based footage will import as “clips” for us. With FCPX the only importing process is to break the capture into clips, you have to actually go through a separate workflow to capture tapes as solid “bricks.” The problem unfortunately boils down to just this one shooter working with the XL-H1. We do have a software that will detect scene changes and automatically break it into clips, unfortunately that is a long multi stepped process and it would be much better to just import the tape as clips from the start. Also just to be clear, we have tried to import the tapes on alternate software (FCP7 and Premiere).

I was really just curious if there was some sort of capture setting in camera or something that would cause the tapes to be captured this way. Looks like we may be out of luck though.

[Stephen Reese]

Kevin,

I suffer from this same problem and it drives me crazy. My work around has been to split the sequence into smaller exports. I usually export two hours movies, so I will split the video into two one hour sections, then export and compress each shorter sequence, and then combine the video afterwards in my DVD/Blu-Ray programs(StudioPro or Encore CS4).

If anyone has a better solution to this problem I am all ears, this work around is still a giant time consumer. Also, I unfortunately don’t have the storage capacity to work in Apple ProRes, so that is out of the question. I also run through the same workflow as Kevin has stated above.

Any ideas on getting a clean export without pixelation?

Thanks
Stephen

[Stephen Reese]

Thanks for the advice, greatly appreciated. I am working on creating disc images now. I appreciate your timely response to my Encore Problem. I’ll keep you updated with my success in this work around.

Thanks
Stephen