The clips that I take on my Nikon D5200 become blurry and shaky once I import them into Final Cut Pro X. It doesn't do this with videos not taken with this camera. How do I fix this?
Final Cut Pro X
Blurry and shaky? How so? As in artifacts or interlaced combing?
This camera shoots a variety of formats. What are your clip properties? Open one of them in QuickTime and hit Command+i to bring up the Inspector. Post a screen shot of the information.
Russ
Blurry and shaky? How so? As in artifacts or interlaced combing?
This camera shoots a variety of formats. What are your clip properties? Open one of them in QuickTime and hit Command+i to bring up the Inspector. Post a screen shot of the information.
Russ
This is the image. I'm not exactly sure what artifacts or interlaced combing is but sometimes there will be little blocks of blur and also there will be flickering of the video like it will shake for a second then shake again when the camera is moving.
DSLR footage does have a tendency to tear with pans; you may have heard it referred to as the jello effect.
Could you post another screenshot – this one of your project settings? Select the project in your Project Library and then click on the wrench icon on the far right.
Russ
Ok here it is.
That's no good. Your project is interlaced. I'm sure the video isn't interlaced. What are you trying to do? Is there some reason your project doesn't match your media?
I have no idea. Do you know how I would get that to match and if I got them to match it would fix the problem?
So your project is interlaced. But the frame rate of your clip and the project don't match. The clip frame rate is 50.94 59.94 so I assume that it is 1080P60 (progressive).
Were the project settings set automatically from the first clip, or did you create custom settings?
Russ
The project settings were set automatically. Is there a way to make them match?
What was the very first thing you put into the project? One of these clips? If that's the case the application is not reading the format correctly. Check the info inspector for the clip that the application is reading the same as the QuickTime movie inspector.
Well, unless there is something unusual about these mov files that isn't apparent, FCP should correctly set the project to 1080P60. That said, I recently had a situation where FCP automatically kept setting new projects for 29.97 despite dropping 23.98 clips into them. Finally I gave up and chose Custom – just to get it right. (After that, BTW, automatic started mysteriously working again).
So that's what I suggest you do. Create a project with correct settings by using Custom in the new project dialogue box.
Russ
I set it to these settings and it still didn't fix it, I also added in a video not taken with the Nikon before I added in the blurry one.
If you want the Nikon video to set the project properties it has to be the first clip you put in the timeline. You don't have to leave it there, but it has to be the very first thing into the timeline.
It's not good that FCP is seeing the clip properties differently from the QT player. Wonder if this was changed when the media was imported.
Importing the Nikon video first still didn't work. I imported it to iphoto and then to final cut pro x so maybe something happened there?
Select one of the clips in the event browser, right click to reveal in Finder, then open in Quick Time Player and bring up the movie inspector to see if it tells you anything different or whether it also sees it as 59.94 progressive.
Russ
Why do my video clips become blurred or shaky at some spots once I import them into Final Cut Pro X? It only does this with video from my Nikon d5200.
