DV and FCPX woes - no stereo and incorrect date

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DV and FCPX woes - no stereo and incorrect date

Man.. this never ends. FCPX just DOES NOT want to play nice with DV footage.

I'm importing some miniDV tapes shot on a Canon GL2 in 2009. At the moment, I'm letting FCPX run through the tapes to create a "tape archive" so I can easily import things in my events later.

The first issue I'm having is that FCPX is importing all the clips with the wrong date. Specifically, it repeatedly applies the correct timestamp but the date is set to a day earlier. When I look at the timestamp on the camera, the correct date shows up but in FCPX (whether imported direct from camera or from tape archive), the timestamp is a day earlier.

The other issue is the stereo/mono problem others have been having. When I import clips from a tape archive, they show up as mono. When import directly from the canera, they show up as stereo.

What the **** FCPX?! Does anyone else have any workarounds?

Posted on Dec 7, 2011 8:44 PM

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Dec 13, 2011 3:49 PM in response to bvp663

Spoke w/ Apple support. They told me it was because the camera I was using to import (Canon HV40) was not on their supported cameras list. I then tried to import using a Canon GL2 which is on their supported cameras list and got the same results.

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Dec 13, 2011 4:44 PM in response to bvp663

bvp663 wrote:

The other issue is the stereo/mono problem others have been having. When I import clips from a tape archive, they show up as mono. When import directly from the camera, they show up as stereo.

The fact that FCX has trouble with DV media is a known bug. This thread contains some workarounds:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3133840

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