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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
So unless I'm overlooking something they weren't altered by the detour to iPhoto or the import to FCP.
Russ
That could very well be a problem. I don't know if iPhoto understands 59.94 video. You almost always want to import video into the video application first. FCP will process many video formats into production specifications which other applications will not. You might want to try importing directly into FCP. That said FCP's compatibility with Nikon cameras is not as extensive as Canons, so there may be other issues involved.
This is what the settings are in iphoto.
It is weird though because when I set my project settings to that, my video in the inspector info tab shows these
settings.
If you set up a test project with this custom setting and drag one of your clips to it, do the settings stay correct or do they flip to interlaced?
Also, when you imported these files from iPhoto, did you copy to the event. (I'm thinking you did not.)
Russ
The iPhoto frame rate isn't right. Should be 59.94.
Your project settings won't change your clip specs. Can you try to import the video into FCP directly from the camera or the card?
How do I change it to 59.94? And at the bottom of the project it says it is at 59.94 but then when I click on the video info it says it is at 29.97.
Change what? The clip specifications? You can't. iPhoto is reading it as 59.95 and FCP is reading it as 29.97 interlaced. Neither of which is correct.
So there is nothing I can do?
I don't know. There's no way you can reimport from an archive into FCP? Or was the only copy in iPhoto?
If that's the case I would just try a 59.94 project and see how it works.
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.
