Acceptable Video Files for Importing

what type of video files are acceptable to FCX? it won't read my AVIs or MPEG4s

MPEG Streamclip is especially useful for this sort of thing. I just recently converted a bunch of AVI files to DV, for import into FCP. If you want to convert VOB (DVD) files, however, you'll have to pony up the $20 to get Apple's Quicktime MPEG-2 Component. I've also been able to successfully open WMV files in MPEG Streamclip, as well as DivX/XviD files. It's very versatile. One format that I wish it would convert is RealVideo.

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hi, can anyone tell me how i can access the program file for importer ti add dvr-ms files. i'm running on a windows vista

Hi,
If you have already selected "Videos" under "Manage Media Importer" and you still can't import the DVR MS files, then that might be a limitation of the import utility. As a work around, you may use the NTI Shadow Utility to do total backup on all your files.
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Where can i find the chassis file for import in MAX for drawing connection diagram before purchasing

where can i find the chassis file for import in MAX for drawing connection diagram before purchasing
chassis: NI PXIe-1078
thx

This board is for an obsolete product called Measure - an add-on for Excel. Please repost with details on exactly what you mean by 'chassis file'.

Converting Video Files For Windows Premiere Elements Editing

A client has given me a couple of dozen videotapes, about half MiniDV and the other half VHS-C. He's also given me a 1TB external hard drive.
He would like the drive returned with a single unedited video file for each tape loaded onto it. He will then edit these tapes in Adobe Premiere Elements on a Windows PC, and ultimately burn DVDs.
I have the necessary equipment to capture the contents of all of these tapes into FCP, but I have two questions.
First, what should I convert these files to? I'm thinking QuickTime movies, or DV, since Premiere Elements can work with either of those, and storage space shouldn't be a problem; all the footage is SD, of course.
Second, I haven't connected the drive he's given me yet; if I need to format this drive for my MacPro to use, will my customer then have problems accessing the video files? Or, is there a proper way for me to format this drive so that the files will be readable when he gets it back?
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

It's never a good idea to capture on a different NLE than the one which will be used for editing. It can cause all sorts of compatibility problems. There are even issues going between FCP and iMovie -both Mac applications.
I'm thinking QuickTime movies, or DV, since Premiere Elements can work with either of those,
Are you *absolutely sure* about that, given that a PC based NLE typically works with avi files?
As to your disc formatting questions, you can download the [NTFS-3G driver|http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com> which will let you read, write and even reformat the drive as NTFS on the Mac. All reasonably modern PCs work with this disc format and you won't run into the file size limitations associated with FAT formatted drives.

When I try to import files from iMac HDD into the event, it fails. FCPX dosn't see this files for import. Files are *.m2ts and *.mpg. Should I buy plagin Quicktime component MPEG-2 to resolve a problem?

When I try to import files from iMac HDD into the event, it fails. FCPX dosn't see this files for import. Files are *.m2ts and *.mpg. Should I buy plagin Quicktime component MPEG-2 to resolve a problem?

no you should transcode those files into an format that os suitable for editing. Like proRez. Although you might need some Flip4Mac or perian or something to do the conversion.
adam

Converting video files for zen

}Hello,
I recently sold my old desktop and purchased a laptop. I need to obtain software that will convert my video files to suitable files for my creative zen. I will be putting them on the external memory card thats in my zen, so what program can I use to convert the video files on my laptop first before putting onto the memory card?
Thanks!

"Re: Converting video files for zen?Use the Creative Video Converter. ?You can download it from the Creative Support website. ?If you have the Creative Zen (i.e., the credit card sized one that was released after the Zen Vision series and before the Zen MX), then use this link:
http://support.creative.com/download...DownloadId=050

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What is the best video format for importing into After Effects CS5

Please look at this video, work in progress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_wbdKALQk
The opening, featuring a ribbon of videos, was created in After Effects, using Digieffects Freeform.
The issue is the poor quality of the videos that are featured in the opening -- compared to the higher quality of videos from the original Premiere project., which you can see at the end of the clip.
To create the After Effects project, I exported a series of video clips from Premiere to mp4.
Then I imported them into AfterEffects.
The bottom line, and the purpose of this question, is I am thinking that MP4 was not the best choice for the Adobe Premiere export.
What is the best format to export video from in Premiere Pro CS5 to import into after effects, or to import into any other editing program, incuding importing right back into Adobe Premiere, if that is eever needed.
AVI?
MOV
MP4
And any other settings that will result with the highest qualiity videos for importing.
Thanks

To follow on with Wade's suggestion...
There are lots of ways to get movies and projects and other things back and forth between After Effects and Premiere Pro. This page outlines them:
"Working with Premiere Pro and After Effects"
If you must render and export a movie out of one application to bring it into another, there is a very basic piece of video workflow advice that you need to keep in mind (which applies to _all_ video software, not just After Effects and Premiere Pro):
If you're creating a movie to be used in the next step of a post-production pipeline, you _never_ want to use a format that does lossy compression. You either use no compression or (preferable) lossless compression. Examples of codecs that provide lossless compression are the Animation codec and PNG codec at the highest quality settings; these can be used in a QuickTime container, for example. Never compress a movie with lossy compression except at the very end of your pipeline, when you're creating the final movie for distribution.
MP4 (MPEG-4) is a lossy codec. The quality loss is acceptable for the last stage in the pipeline, but it's not acceptable for an intermediate file.
It seems that you would benefit from reading this and and working your way through this.

Adobe PSE 11 will not accept video files (in slide show)

Although my video files are in a format supposedly accepted by PSE 11, each time I attempt to insert a video file, I'm informed that the file was skipped because it is not one of the acceptable Windows video formats (which is incorrect as the files are in the organizer and listed as acceptable).
How can this be corrected?
Thank you

Dale Mullen
Video files are not supported by the Photoshop Elements 11 Editor or any other version of Photoshop Elements (photo editor), but are accepted for placement in the Elements Organizer. The Slideshow Editor is a feature of the Elements Organizer (Windows), and it does not accept video inclusion unless "Windows video formats".
As an example, one of my cameras offers H.264.mov. But can be placed in the Elements Organizer, but are not accepted in the Elements Organizer/Create/Slideshow/Slideshow Editor. This is not something new to Photoshop Elements 11 or Elements Organizer 11.
What is the destination for your Elements Organizer 11 Slideshow...Premiere Elements 11? If so, place these video files in the slideshow once it gets to Premiere Elements after you used the Slideshow Editor command Edit with Premiere Elements Editor. Once the slideshow is in Premiere Elements using that command, you can right click the slideshow on the Timeline, select Break Apart Elements Organizer Slideshow, and do more editing, including video import with Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets to the Timeline.
Please do not hesitate to ask questions or ask for clarification, but what I just described is "it is what it is".
Thanks.
ATR

Can't open Sony PXW-X70 (.mxf) video files for Final Cut Pro X or iMovie, please help!

Hi there--
Just got the Sony PXW-X70 and I can't seem to open the .mxf or even successfully transcode the video files into something that can be read on the mac. (Running 10.9.5)
I downloaded Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac and the Ackrock Video Converters and neither of them work. They just are able to import the audio but not the video portion.
Very frustrated here, any advice? Thanks!

The clips from the X70 are not XAVC-S, but XAVC (sometimes called XAVC-L) and the plugin from Sony linked above is not compatible with them. I also don't recommend those sketchy third party conversion options. Still, as of mid-December, the best options for getting Sony X70 XAVC clips into FCPX are:
1. Use the free Sony Catalyst Browse to convert them (one at a time, although you can queue up multiple files without waiting for the previous one to finish)
2. Use the $200 Sony Catalyst Prepare software
3. Shoot AVCHD until there is a solution from Sony - supposedly Sony is at work on a plugin for FCPX to allow native ingest/editing of these clips. I've read that it should arrive very soon, but we'll see.
I'm using option 1 - $200 is ridiculous, and I didn't buy a camera with 10-bit 4:2:2 and a strong codec to shoot in AVCHD
If it's any consolation, Avid and even Sony Vegas will not import them either.

Sony WX7 .mts video files not imported into iPhoto 11

Apple indicates iLife ’11 supports AVCHD (.mts) files, however, I've been unable to get iPhoto 11 to import video files from the Sony WX7 camera. Photo's are imported properly via both usb and directly from the SD card reader in my Macbook Pro (i7) 2011, however, video files are not. I've read that iMovie '08 supports Sony AVCHD 2011-model video cameras, but iPhoto 11 appears not to.
Mac OS X v10.6.7, is fully up to date. Has anybody found a solution?

Not sure where you are seeing that AVCHD is supported in iPhoto '11 but it is not - use iMovie to import your AVCHD movies - that works for my my Sony DSC-HX5
LN

Corrupt video files for iTunes

This has been an ongoing problem that has gotten worse. I have several video files made from various sources (FCP X and Adobe Premiere) all formatted for an AppleTV with the .m4v extension on them. They work when I set them and add them to the iTunes library. Plays fine. Occasionally I will scroll through my library and see a generic gray film icon for the video. I click on it, nothing happens. It will not play. Selecting Show in Finder shows the file, which looks to be about the correct file size. The icon for the video file is a blank dog-eared document, which should not be. I can't preview it or load it into any video editing or compressor application.
What is happening to my videos? Random corruption of these files is certainly not acceptable. And yes, I ran DiskUtility. It doesn't happen to all the self-made video files, just some here and there. Never has happened that I can see with any of the major videos I have downloaded from iTunes. Only the stuff I create and add to the library. Sooner or later, it will liekly happen to other video files.
Any ideas as to what is going on? Any thoughts on how to recover my videos aside from backups?

Update: I tried loading in to every video application I have. Even MPEG StreamClip and it had to be forced to open the file. It did so, but at the very end jumpedout indicating it couldn't find any video or audio tracks.
I have done nothing to these files other than let them sit on the drive. Every now and then one or two of them just reandomly corrupts. What's causing this?

Problem with video file for iMovie 4

I'm not completely sure if this is the right forum for my question, but...
I sent out some old family videos to be converted into movie files (.mov files). The problem is that they came back with each file at approximately an hour long. I want to be able to edit them (add chapters, add background music, etc.) and make copies for each family member on my computer. I tried importing the video files into iMovie, but it said that they were too large and that I could import them after buying QuickTime Pro and chopping them up into smaller portions through that.
I had two questions. First, would I be able to do this with QuickTime Pro and then use iMovie or iDVD to create the DVDs without any (or too many) problems? I'd rather not spend the money to buy QuickTime Pro and then find out it was a waste because it didn't work. And second, is there some other program (preferably free) that I could use to cut these videos up into smaller portions?
Please help! Thanks!

Yes, QT Pro can do it for you.
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6003.shtml
You can also buy iLife '05 or '06 as none of these version has the length limitation.

Vision M wont accept video files

I have tried to import video files to my vision M without success. I have tried converting the files to; wmv, mpg, avi and a host of others and still I get an incompatable message and the creative file converter will not convert the file either. Any suggestions? Thanks

Yeah I wish people actually had aswers to your problems on these forums. I've had the same problem on and off since I got my Vision: M about a month ago. There is a page on here somewhere with a link to a program that supposedly fixes this problem. It doesn't even work for me now and no one else has a better solution. I'll post the link to the page if I find it.

Need help compressing 140 minute video file for DVD+R

Hi folks,
I am self-teaching Final Cut Studio and DVD Studio Pro. I must admit, the manual is not helping me with some key areas.
My first test in burning a DVD was to load a QT file into FCS then burn it to a standard DVD+R. Now, those say 120 minute capacity of course, so I wanted to compress the file.
I exported to Compressor and chose the DV 120 Minute option the first time. When that did not work I tried the 150 Minute option. Since it takes 3-5 hours for the DVD to burn on my new G5 Dual 2.0, that is all I have had a chance to try so far.
Since neither is working, I assume I am missing a step either in Compressor or in loading the file into DVD Studio Pro.
It burns all the way to 99% and then says '127.5 MB needed to complete' or something like that - in yellow lettering. I take it to mean the video file needs to be 127.5 MB smaller for it to work. I could cut a few minutes out, but that isn't the point.
Can anyone please direct me to either a page in the manual or assist me through this forum as to what error(s) I am making?
Thanks in advance,
Fred

What type of audio are you encoding to? If you're using uncompressed PCM/AIFF you're going to have trouble putting 140 minutes of video on a single-layer DVD (i.e. the quality will have to be pretty low). The preset titles for Apple's settings are calculated based upon compressed Dolby AC-3 audio -- not uncompressed PCM/AIFF. Thus, the so-called 150 minute preset will only produce about 120 minutes of capacity if you are using uncompressed PCM/AIFF audio.
If you want to put 140 minutes of video with audio on a single-layer DVD you're either going to have to use Dolby/AC-3 audio or create your own custom preset to use with PCM/AIFF audio.
However, if you are using compressed Dolby/AC-3 audio (only) then you may just be seeing an inaccuracy in Apple's preset targets (size). In that case just lower the target or average bitrate slightly so that you can fit your 140 minutes on the DVD. Just make a copy of Apple's 150 minute preset and tweak the bitrate slightly down (since that preset seems to be getting close to your target).

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