problems importing movies from aperture 3

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problems importing movies from aperture 3

Hi, I have some videoclips in my aperture library. When I drag a videoclip form within the mediabrowser in fcpx, the clip turns up, but the video is all black, no sound either. The tumbnail of the video shows uo though in the timeline. I tried to copy the file form aperture to the desktop, and then import it to fcpx, but it all turns up black.

I even tried from within aperture 3 to edit with final cut pro x, but then I het an error code that states that fcpx cannot open files in the quicktime movie format.

I have used to just drag directly from the mediabrowser in fcpx before, without any problems, so I don´t understand why it doesn´t work anymore. Here are the specs of the file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 1:14 AM

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Answer 1

BenB

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Jan 17, 2013 2:08 AM in response to Gunfighter

That "<untitled>" in the name should be removed first of all, as it could throw some apps.

What camera did this clip originally come from?

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Gunfighter Author

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Jan 17, 2013 3:21 AM in response to BenB

It appears that almost all of my videoclips inside aperture 3 has been named "untitled" for some reason. The video was either shot by Nikon D 5000 or Nikon P7000. Its the 2 cameras I owned at that time

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Tom Wolsky

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Jan 17, 2013 5:55 AM in response to Gunfighter

The file that you moved to the desktop, can you open it on the QuickTime player?

Try using Renamer to batch change the names of the video files.

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Gunfighter Author

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Jan 17, 2013 6:19 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

No, I can´t open it in quicktime player. How do I use renamer?

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Gunfighter Author

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Jan 17, 2013 6:45 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I now tried something new. I dragged the file from aperture to desktop- quicktime wouldnt open it, and fcpx neither. Then I rightclicked the file and used the command "perform coding of highlighted videofile" (diirect translation from norwegian). I chose apple pro res in the drop down menu, and now I can both view the file in quicktimeplayer, and import and edit it in fcpx.

I wished there would be an easier way though.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jan 17, 2013 6:46 AM in response to Gunfighter

Try changing the name of one file and seeing if you can open it in the QuickTime player. What exactly happens when you try to open it? Renamer is shareware, but it won't help if the file can't be opened in QuickTime.

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Gunfighter Author

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Jan 17, 2013 7:18 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

QuickTime opens the name of the clip (with the new name I gave it), shows up, and the lenght of the clip, I can press play, pause etc, but the screen is black, no audio either

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