Importing mpeg1 movie files

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Importing mpeg1 movie files

I'm trying to import mpeg movie files into fcp. The files import and the video is there and plays however i'm getting no audio?? I tried dropping the file in the timeline and that didn't work either. Also it wouldn't play in the timeline without dropping frames. Any suggestions would help.

Posted on Nov 12, 2009 1:55 PM

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Drew13

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Nov 12, 2009 2:00 PM in response to AT3

Welcome to the Boards 🙂

Sounds like whatever flavor of MPEG you are using is not one that can be used (audio track not coming through) and/or easily workable (dropped frames), you may need to use Mpeg Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ to convert to something that can be used in Final Cut

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Nov 12, 2009 3:53 PM in response to Drew13

Thanks i just did that, before getting to your response. So now the audio and video are both there, but when i drop the clip into the timeline , it is still dropping frames. Do you have a suggestion as to what compression setting i should while exporting to quicktime? Will this help with the dropped frames?

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Nick Holmes

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Nov 12, 2009 3:57 PM in response to AT3

Convert to one of the codecs found in FCP's Easy Setup menu.

With MPEG 1 as the source, there's probably not much point in transcoding to anything above DV.

[MPEG Streamclip tutorial|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2070861&tstart=0]

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Drew13

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Nov 12, 2009 5:04 PM in response to AT3

As Nick mentioned DV will probably be fine, and kind of hard to tell without knowing the system. I will often do conversions to less compressed Codecs so that any changes I make may hold up a bit more. At this point everything I do just gets turned into ProRes when I can, maybe overkill, but it works for me 🙂

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