I have not been able to find the answer anywhere, for some reason when editing with photos it always has a green glitch effect over the top. This is annoying for time lapses and using stills. Have attached a screenshot to show the error really want to know whats going on!!
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
PPlease give your complete system specs including graphics card. Also the project properties and the specifications of the graphic file that has the problem.
I have tried many photo files such as JPEG, Photoshop, PNG and none of them work and all have the same error. It is strange because they all work at first and then about 30 seconds later or even less they have this glitch effect.
This is going to "sound" counter-intuitive, but select your images in the Event Browser and right click on one and select Transcode Media (select optimized).
Will not let me select create optimised media?
CCan you give the image resolution please?
Is this enough info on the resolution?
DO you need the images to be that large? The graphics card will handle it a lot more easily if the files were smaller. If they only need to be the same resolution as the project then making them that size will help.
This has seemed to work thank you! Do you know if there is a way that I can do this to all images for example in a time lapse, would this be in the camera settings?
DDon't know.
You could manage a conversion easily in Motion. Import the image sequence into a project (as a sequence, not individual images). Motion handles an Image Sequence just as if it were video (a single object). Set the frame size and compose the image sequence within it. You could re-export as a PNG image sequence or more easily, export as ProRes 4444. Make sure Color + Alpha is selected in Render settings on export. ProRes is the best option for editing in FCPX, but if disk memory is an issue, then stick with the PNG.
The advice by fox_m to use Motion is excellent. If you don't have Motion, you can use a little Automator action to batch resize all the images, then import the smaller versions to FCP X.
Here is a small such example:
When using photos why is there a green coloured glitch error across the whole screen?
