Final Cut 6 Video Formats

Apple claims: "With native support for virtually any format", I was trying FCP6 in a friends office, I tryed many .mov and even .avi xvid compressed and seems to import fine, but the only format doestn work well is .vob files, they are imported the same way as previous version of FC, you can import video but the audio is not imported any one had tryed this too? Any idea? I didnt want to convert .vob to .mov or dv is a lot of work and PC apps like vegas video can import .vobs

Unfortunately, VOB are not an editing format due to the compression, etc.
If this important, try MPEG Streamclip, or just get an inexpensive PC and editing in Vegas.
FCP also doesn't support direct import of MXF files.
It can't be all things to everyone.
And that statement really has to be taken in the context of what FCP is and that is a video editing application.

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Use *Export/Quicktime Movie* (not Export/Using Quicktime Conversion): then you can select whether to Make Movie Self-Contained or not. Quality is the same, but if movie is self-contained you can move it to another Mac for burning; on the other hand it takes more time and disk space.
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I bought my PB with FC Express 2 preinstalled .
Now , I shoot my "videos" with a Sony Cybershot photo camera . When I copy the footage onto my PB's HDD it comes in .mpg format .
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.mpg format
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
ObSig: I don't benefit from the link.

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http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3032/picture1kb.png
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11151002&#11151002
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