have just imported iMovie events to FCP library. Background tasks all completed. Have gone back into fcp and noted clips are now all fuzzy??

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have just imported iMovie events to FCP library. Background tasks all completed. Have gone back into fcp and noted clips are now all fuzzy??

have just imported iMovie events to FCP library. Background tasks all completed. Files copied with HD resolution. Have gone back into fcp and noted clips are now all fuzzy?? ie. have lost all their resolution. Checked background tasks which indicated 100%, and noted that they were all idle. Why has this happened? do these files need to be deleted and re copied across?? Very frustrating would appreciate any wisdom on this problem.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 8, 2014 11:18 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 8, 2014 11:27 PM in response to Oscar4B

What versions of the software? What are the exact specifications of the media?

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Oscar4B Author

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Feb 8, 2014 11:48 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Have installed FCP 10.1.1. media = memory card sandisk extreme 45MB/s. Files present with excellent defintion in i-Movie and did in FCP initially. Now always fuzzy in viewer, atlhough when move mouse over some clips in browser, they become excellent in definition while viewer remains fuzzy and sometimes fuzzy both in browser and viewer...???

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 9, 2014 12:09 AM in response to Oscar4B

Open the media in the QT player and give its exact specifications.

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Oscar4B Author

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Feb 9, 2014 12:13 AM in response to Oscar4B

A quick update that might assist - have just scrolled down through clips in browser and am now quite confused. It would appear that I have duplicate clips that have been created in individual events. Crappy fuzzy ones, but then the clear HD ones are further down the line of scroll..althought there doesn't seem to by any chronological order to their presentation ie. fuzzy sequence and then same sequence presented in HD. Why this happen? Can I simply delete the fuzzy ones from the browser? Sorry but very confused about this...

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Jscoop1

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Apr 19, 2015 3:52 PM in response to Oscar4B

Hi Oscar-

I have found the same issue. Were you ever able to solve this?

Also, did trimming off the fuzzy duplicate portion work?

Cheers,

Scott H.

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Jscoop1

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Apr 19, 2015 4:00 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi Tom,

I'm finding it very hard to resume my big project of digitizing old home VHS and VHS-C videos into FCP X. First the updated FCP decided to stop accepting converted analog imports, so my workaround was to do it in iMovie then move the clips over to DCP. Then iMovie was updated to make that impossible, so my work-around was to find my older version of iMovie in the applications folder and to use that. But after taking many months off of my project, now trying it again, I'm not able to recreate whatever method I had last used to move the iMovie clip into the FCP events library. Do you know how I can do that?

You mention the Quicktime player as another option, but do you know how to import analog video into Quicktime, using my Canon miniDV camcorder as the converter to digital?

Would appreciate any guidance!

Best,

Scott

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2015 4:07 PM in response to Jscoop1

YYou should be able to use File>NNew Movie Recording in the QuickTime player.

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Alchroma

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Apr 19, 2015 5:20 PM in response to Oscar4B

Oscar4B wrote:

A quick update that might assist - have just scrolled down through clips in browser and am now quite confused. It would appear that I have duplicate clips that have been created in individual events. Crappy fuzzy ones, but then the clear HD ones are further down the line of scroll..althought there doesn't seem to by any chronological order to their presentation ie. fuzzy sequence and then same sequence presented in HD. Why this happen? Can I simply delete the fuzzy ones from the browser? Sorry but very confused about this...

I suspect the fuzzy clips are thumbnails, whereas the clear clips are the real copied media files.

If I understand correctly you copied the iMovie files from the iMovie Library to an SD card??

There is an Export to FCP X or something of that nature in the iMovie File options.

This works well with FCP X.

Al

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