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FCPX cant handle video?

just tried to use FCP for the first time, I took a .MOV file right from my camera and whenevr I play it back in FCP it first of all looks horrible slow and flitchy like (skipping frames), secondly it goes out of sync with the audio after a couple seconds. I got an error saying that it is skipping frames. Anyways 2 things... I am on a mac pro, not a laptop ( i haven't applied any processing to the video yet), and if I open the .MOV in quicktime it plays perfectly. Can anybody help me out? why cant FCP handle it?

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 7:48 PM

19 replies

Nov 16, 2012 12:58 AM in response to Devon8822

It looks like you may have an alias in the Desktop, and the actual video may be in that strange path - one where you should not store any of your documents.

Select the movie file in the Desktop in Finder and do a get info (Cmd-I). What does it say under "Kind"? Alias, or Quicktime Movie?

Devon8822 Author

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Nov 16, 2012 7:30 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

hmm it says /Users/Devon/Desktop

Anyways, still no ideas on the slow runningin FCP? I guess I will just have to optimize everything... even though i shouldn't need to

Nov 17, 2012 5:39 AM in response to Devon8822

I asked about "apples" and you answered "oranges"...

Devon8822 wrote:

hmm it says /Users/Devon/Desktop

Anyways, still no ideas on the slow runningin FCP? I guess I will just have to optimize everything... even though i shouldn't need to

I asked about kind, not location. I have two files on my desktop. One is an alias, the other an actual quicktime movie. Notice the difference in both kind and size.

Devon8822 Author

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Nov 17, 2012 9:41 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

ohh it says quicktime movie.

FCPX cant handle video?