Importing Video from Windows 10 Camera App in to Final Cut Pro X

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Importing Video from Windows 10 Camera App in to Final Cut Pro X

Before I start, is there any way to restrict a search to a particular community? I tried to search with various keywords, but even though I was on the search bar in Final Cut Pro community, my results were from all communities.

Anyways, I'm building a presentation video for a virtual conference. The main video is the power point presentation with an inset video of the student talking. The issue is that the student has Windows 10 and is using the Camera App to film their face and voice. The video plays fine in Quicktime. But when I import into FCP, the audio is mostly silent with the sporadic clip of sound. Video is fine. According to Quicktime it is H264 video and AAC sound. I made a short clip with a windows laptop, and it has similar problems. I've tried importing with fix audio problems turn on, but that doesn't seem to fix it.

https://cloudfiles.engineering.queensu.ca/url/w10audiovideosample

Thanks.

Posted on Sep 30, 2020 9:23 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Sep 30, 2020 4:11 PM in response to Thomas Dean1

You’re not missing anything. Don’t know why it’s not working for you. You would need to convert before importing. Of you don’t want to create ProRes you might use Handbrake, which gives you the most options.

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Thomas Dean1 Author

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Sep 30, 2020 4:07 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I'm obviously missing something. I was using the import function, here is the right side of the import window.

My understanding that Transcode -> optimize media during import was the same as the method you suggested, so I left it checked off for this import. I had tried it on a previous import without any luck. I then Right clock The media:

And choose optimize:

I seem to have gotten the same result as before. Now instead of occasional burst of speech, I get bursts of static.

Since you have gotten it working, I'm obviously missing something.

thanks.

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Sep 30, 2020 9:28 AM in response to Thomas Dean1

Try converting before importing.

In the Finder, control-click the file, choose Services->Encode Selected Video Files...

Choose H264. You could also choose ProRes, but it is probably not necessary, and it would produce a massive file.

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Thomas Dean1 Author

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Sep 30, 2020 3:22 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Could you give me more info on which settings you used? I'm using copy to library, I tried create optimized media, create proxy media, both at once, both ProRes and H.264. I also tried fix audio, separate, remove silent. I either get the same audio, or I get no audio with white noise where there used to be the small snippets of voice. Using Mac OS 10.14.6 and FCP 10.4.10.

Thanks

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Tom Wolsky

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Sep 30, 2020 3:47 PM in response to Thomas Dean1

Copy to library? I'm not sure how that works. You should use the import function. After I imported the file I had the same problem as use. The first part of the audio was missing and then there were bits after that. It was inconsistent in playback. Each time seemed to be different. To optimize after the media's imported, select the clips, right-click, and select transcode media. Use Optimize. It worked on the clip you uploaded. It was a short clip it may not work on longer clips. This is the problem with the media:

Frame rate mode : Variable

Frame rate : 29.897 FPS

Minimum frame rate : 20.747 FPS

Maximum frame rate : 31.447 FPS

Original frame rate : 30.000 FPS

The unstable frame rate makes it impossible to work with in the editing application.

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Thomas Dean1 Author

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Sep 30, 2020 4:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Ah hah. You suggestion of using Handbrake made me think of using Compressor to convert it. I should have thought of that earlier, but I was tunnel visioned on the video working in. Qucktime, but not in FCP. Running it through compressor to H264/AAC produced a video that worked with FCP.

Thanks!!

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