Hello
The documentation says that FCPX supports HDV.
I have several HDV files which when I try to import them, they are greyed out and FCPX says they are not supported.
But there is nothing wrong with the files on a PC in CS4 they work fine.
Any hints. Thanks
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
The message clearly says you do not to have QuickTime 7 installed.
The message says "the original installers disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required"
The install for the Utility MPEG2 Component M.Lion says please double-click the file QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg to open the QuickTime MPEG2 disk image!
Here you go
http://www.fcpxbook.com/QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg
You have to copy and paste the whole thing because this friggin reply window doesn't read the whole thing as a URL.
Got it and installed MPEG Streamclip thanks. First off I notice that to keep the proper proportions of the image I need to choose 1920 x 1080 although my original file is 1440 x 1080.
I set MPEG Streamclip output to high quality. It seems it will take at least as long as the film to process = 16 x 1 hour. There is no batch function or parallel processing unlike Xilisoft.
As an aside, the sound and image are out of sync in the files generated with Xilisoft export HDV to HD MOV on the PC. First time I ran so many large files with Xilisoft.
I still need to complain to Apple that their doc is misleading suggesting that HDV can be imported directly. They updated the look of the importer in the last update but its just look and feel. All this conversion takes a lot of time and not always succesful.
I set MPEG Streamclip output to high quality. It seems it will take at least as long as the film to process = 16 x 1 hour. There is no batch function or parallel processing unlike Xilisoft.
Parallel processing, yes!; batch function, yes! Just go to List->Batch List
Thank you thank you.
I recorded at 1440 x 1080 16:9 but MPEG Streamclip offers 1440 x 1080 4:3 or 1920 x 1080 16:9 but at 1440 x 1080 4:3 the image is squashed.
So I went for 1920 x 1080 at 100% quality and got a 85 Gb file from a 11 Gb HDV file. Why so big? I will try at 50% quality but why should I need to?
P.S. What is a data break?
The resulting file from MPEG Streamclip is unusable having a huge desync between image and sound. Biting off more than one can chew.
Then I noticed that the original does too. Another problem
markfrompluneret wrote:
The resulting file from MPEG Streamclip is unusable having a huge desync between image and sound. Biting off more than one can chew.
Then I noticed that the original does too. Another problem
Can you recover the original footage from tape?
Yes I can but I'm just going through seeing the extent of the damage and its more limited than initially thought.
However I am considering giving up converting for FCPX even though the environment is nicer in FCP (I admit).
The time cost is huge and I could edit on CS4.
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