Problems importing mpge 2 in fcp

I can't import MPGE-2 files to FCPx, help me please

MPEG-2 can be a lot of things, but if it's standard def it's not supported in FCP. Use MPEG Streamclip to convert it.

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I'm at wit's end here. I did a short 10 second intro for a press reel in Motion that is pretty basic and looks good in Motion (it's just images from the show flying across the screen, with a cloud emitter as background). The problem is that when I import it into Final Cut Pro, the images get all jittery and wobbly. It looks as if they are going in and out of different interlacing stages, which makes no sense.
The images were taken from the theater's website, and I have have tried them both in JPG and PSD formats. They are all being scaled down from the original size a touch after I import them into Motion (would that be the problem? Didn't think to try that...). As I said, they look fine and clear in Motion, but when I export into a Quicktime movie or render it and play it back in Final Cut Pro, they get all jaggedy/wobbly (for lack of a better technical term). Stills exported from the Motion file look fantastic in Photoshop (and in Final Cut Pro when I use them as background) but a paused image in Final Cut Pro looks very jagged.
I've tried everything I can think of, and even upped all the render settings in the project, to no avail. Any ideas/suggestions?

Sure. I'm uploading two files. One at www.jonathanfrank.com/FCPTest.mov, contains two 10 second movies back to back. The first clip is the project I created from scratch, the second clip is a test I did using a Motion template that I was 'inspired' by. Both were exported from Motion w/Field set to 'none' and export settings set to 'animation' Both looked pretty good when the exported file was opened in Quicktime. I imported the files and rendered them in FCP (and noticed that Field got set to Low/Even along the way somehow) and then exported them into Quicktime via FCP.
I also am uploading the original file of my project that I exported from Motion to see the difference at www.jonathanfrank.com/poetintro1.mov
Due to the size, it's not as easy to see the 'jitter' It was really noticeable when I imported the Travel template sans photos (so you just saw the grey "replace here" images with the circles and grids). It looks passable in the movies, but when Printed to Video, played in FCP (or played in the full-sized format in Quicktime) it's a lot more obvious what I'm talking about.
Basically, the motion just isn't smooth. It's very jagged and jittery, and the definition is dreadful.
Thanks for all your help and interest, by the way. And hope this

Problems importing audio files in FCP 7.0.1

Has anyone else noticed FCP 7 being much more picky about audio files being imported? MP3s, WAVs & AIFFs that all play on my system or in Quicktime are not being recognized by FCP. The only pattern I can see to these files is they were not created on Macs and may lack certain metadata that FCP expects, but generally, I work under the assumption that if Quicktime can read a file, FCP can too - and that is proving not to be the case.

Thanks for the tip re: JPG v TIFF. And I've done a MP3 -> AIFF conversion now as well.
As it turned out, my problem was not a FCP preferences corruption, but was a matter of where the files came from...we were given a DVD with the still & audio files on them. When I copied those files from the DVD to our Server and then to the Raid hooked up to our Mac, the files would not import. If I went directly from the DVD to the raid, the files imported. Not sure how to make sense of that...but good to be aware of it, and hopefully if anyone else runs into this odd occurrence, this solves it for them...

Having Problems importing XML file from FCP 6 onto a FCP 5 application

I have a project file that i worked on FCP 6 and wanted to move to FCP 5 app. on a different Pro Mac but when i try to import the xml, it prompts me to "Please choose a Translation Document File". I choose the FCP 6 project file because i wasn't sure what to choose and i get the ERROR: No translation templates matching the selected XML file were found. Unable to import this file.
any ideas?

make sure you exported your XML from FCP6 using a compatible XML version (1, 2 or 3) ... version 3 would make the most sense as its the most recent FCP5 compatible version .... don't export using version 4 (the default for FCP6), that one is for transfering projects between different installations of FCP6 only

Audio waveform sync and drifting problems on imported AIF's in FCP 6

Hi FCP people,
I have been having problems importing bounced audio files into Final Cut Pro 6. I've done a search and can't find anything to help me yet, so here's a new post.
This has happened on two projects: both files are 16-bit 48KHz.
1) Having finished an edit (HDV 1080/50i timeline) I exported my audio into Soundtrack to finish the audio mix and normalise, and then saved the bounce. When I imported that back into FCP the audio seems to drift. What is particularly strange is that the waveform looks like the audio is in the right place, but the sound comes out before it should. V. Weird!!!
2) The second file was sent to me from another system. I was given a FCP file (I have a copy of the source footage on my HD and reconnected it). They also sent me the audio mix. Once again, this file seems to drift out of time, yet the waveform looks right.
When I import the video file and audio bounce file into FCPv5 it works ok.
Can anyone help me on this? Or is this a problem with FCP that others are also having?
Many thanks, Tim

Hi Zak,
many thanks for your reply, i have contacted Apple and taking your advice and using compressor i have converted the codec H.264 to Apple Pro Res 422 for interlaced material.
I have imported this file and when i drag once again from the viewer to canvas i get the standard box asking to change the sequence to match the clip.
I am still getting the red line above the timeline and bleeping as audio.
any idea?

Problems importing After Effects files into FCP

Hey guys--
So I have this odd problem importing my after effects clips into FCP. I am working in standard DV, and my After Effects composition settings match my FCP settings.
I am snipping little bits from my FCP project, exporting them to QT, adding stuff on top in AE, then shooting the clip back to FCP. The problem is, whent he clip goes back to FCP it is slightly "pinched." It's not really thaat visible, unless I try to edit a cut in the same shot. The after effects clip is a couple pixels wider, and the quality is a little blurry. If it is a hard edit, you wouldn't even notice the difference, but the two shots together make it pretty noticeable. I'm not set to square pixels or anything, and i get the same results no matter which codec i render in AE with.
Any ideas?

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Problems with sound in the FCP

I have a mpg movie that was created in another software Studio 14. I transfer the file to my HD and it plays fine video and sound.
I need to edit it and I imported it into a FCP project.
The video is fine, but there is no sound at all.
Any suggestions to solve the problem?

MPEG files are typically multiplexed (muxed audio and video) and must be converted prior to importing into FCP. MPEG Streamclip can handle most of those tasks; use it to convert the MPEG file into a format that will exactly match your Sequence settings in FCP.
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Can't import AVCHD in to FCP X...

Hi,
I have FCP X 10.1.1 and I have on my disk backuped AVCHD movies. It's a complete copy of a disk on which they was recorded (complete PRIVATE folder with everything). QT see it and I can play it there, but when I'm trying to import it to the FCP X, I have it grayed ...
I try everything but no change. I can't use import from archve, while is greyed too.
Has anybody any help what can I do to import it to FCP X directly without any transcode or rewraping it?
Thanks.

You may well be doing something wrong, but unless you give a detailed explanation of exactly what you are trying to import and how, we cannot tell.
Just in case it's a problem with FCP X try these general troubleshooting tips:-
Use this free app to trash the preferences. This should be the first thing you try when any problems occur.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
2. Open Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
3. Trash FCP X using this free app and reinstall it.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/
If these 3 measures don't work, create a new User Account (Admin) in System Preferences and try running FCP X from that as it sometimes works miracles.

Cannot import video files into FCP

Every time I try to import a file (.mov , .mpg , .m4v) FCP gives me an error message reading "File Error: File Unknown" If I try and import through the drop down menu, the error reads "File Error: 1 file(s) Recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown"
The only file that seems to work is a .avi
This started happening when I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
Please Help

Here's a couple solutions ...
I had this problem this week as well. Suddenly I couldn't import any type of media into FCP. After trying a few things like reinstalling FCS 2 and talking to other people, I called up Apple Support. They walked me through a few more efforts to solve the issue or at least get an idea of what causes the problem.
What we discovered is that when I created a new user profile for my iMac and logged into that profile, everything in Final Cut worked fine. I could import media with no problem. THUS, the issue seems to be connected to my computer profile. So I was presented with two options:
Option 1: Create a new user profile and either migrate all my content over to it or simply edit from that profile.
Option 2: The Nuclear Option. Back up all your content you don't want to loose, pop in your OS X disk, restart the computer holding C, and select the option to erase your hard drive and install OS X from scratch.
I figured that after two years of a **** of a lot of editing and other work on this computer, it was time to just go for the Nuclear option and obliterate everything off of it and start fresh. Takes a while to do, but I've just confirmed that I'm able to import media again in FCP.
So, sadly it's not a real simple option like deleting your preference files, like other FCP issues, but there is way to clear up this issue. The important thing to note here is that reinstalling FCP didn't work for me, and doing an Archive Install of OS X which still keeps my user profile essentially intact also keep the problem intact and solves nothing.
Now, if you have to get a project your editing out the door right away, just create a new profile and get busy editing. But once that project is done, or if you have the time right now, I think the best option is the Nuclear Option. Back your stuff up and then clear your hard drive out and start anew.
I hope that helps guys. I know how crazy I was going not finding anything on a forum to help me out.

Im having problems importing prores files at correct frame rate

im having problems importing prores files at correct frame rate. they have been converted to prores at 25fps but on importing they appear in fcp as 30fps. any help would be appreciated.

I don't know anything about Wondershare. But it seems something may have got messed up in the conversion. Or maybe there is an identifier on the converted clip that has FCP confused and it really is 25 fps.
To begin, your sequence settings don't match your clips. You want a Pro Res sequence. Let FCP set this automatically by dragging a Pro Res to an empty sequence and when gives you a message asking whether you want the sequence to match the clips, click yes. Then hit command 0 again and see whether the frame rate is set at 30 or 25.
If it really is 30, then it will need to be converted and re-imported. It can be done in Compressor or in Cinema Tools. If you have used Cinema Tools before, great. Of not, I'll defer to others because it's been a while and I don't want to mess you up.
Good luck.
Russ

Problems importing media

Is anyone experiencing problems importing media? I'm trying to import to a project but FCP is making it difficult to locate my files, my stuff isn't organized, and EVERYTHING is being loaded from my Hard drive, my external hard drive, EVERYTHING, so it's difficult to locate which file i'm exactly looking for.

I believe today's OS update (for the computer, not the phone) has some Apeture fixes in it - have you downloaded that update and tried again?

PROBLEMS IMPORTING FROM VCR!

1-When importing from a VCR on FCPRO 10.1.1, the image in the import window is not fluid but jurky and unstable! ANYONE HAVING THAT PROBLEM?
2-Still importing, the left arrow often switch the import unit from the vdr to an external drive instead of playing the vcr backward!!! ANY CLUE?
I'm working on a brand new IMac 27" with Maverick.
Thanks,
JP

JP Maher1 wrote:
The import window is very stable using IMovie!!! No more jerkily images... I tought I had a video card problem but it seems that FCP 10.1.1 causes the problem...
ALSO: when I wrote: 2-Still importing, the left arrow often switch the import unit from the vdr to an external drive instead of playing the vcr backward!!! ANY CLUE?
I MEANT THE JKL keys, not arrows, sorry!!!
JP
Clue: when you press a key and the focus is on a list of names, like it happens in a Finder window, the selection will follow your keys - like, for example, if I open a Finder window in the Applications folder and type the letter j I select Keynote because it is the first name, alphabetically, starting at or after the letter j.
My guess is this is a matter of which part of the interface has focus. If it is the file list, then such behavior is expected.

Problem capturing DV tape to FCP 10.1.3

New to FCP X and having problems importing the entire tape.
Importing dv tape using Sony SDR-11
OS X 10.9.4
Processor 2x2.66 GHz 6 Core Intel Xeon
External Hard Drive 1TB (set up for FCP media storage)
Currently the footage is importing in small increments of 2-3 minute clips and I am trying to capture the entire tape.
Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated as I have been not been able to figure this one out.
Liza

Ross
I am trying to import 50 mins or so of a lecture. One continuous shot. No stopping or starting of camera.
Fcp will only import small increments of the tape. The clips are never of the whole lecture even if I tried
To edit them together. If only I should be happy at this point.
I really dont know what to do. Every tape I try to import ends up with small increment clips. After the import the message always says tape has been entirely imported. But this is incorrect.
I have even gone to the manual and no help there.
How did you fix your problem?
Thanks for you input.

Problem ContourHD files 720p60fps with FCP 7

Hi,
Sorry for my english but I send this message from France.
I bought a Contour HD 1080p for my outdoor sports sessions.
I record with this cam in the Action Settings. The format of the files is .mov, Ambarella AVC encoder, 1280x720, AAC stereo 48 Khz, 59.94 IPS.
I try to import these files to FCP 7 but it did not recognize the files.Does someone have already this problem ?
What can I do to resolve it ?
Many thanks for your help
Fred

Sounds like a variation of AVCHD. Do they open in Quicktime? If so, you can try opening it in Compressor and converting to ProRes.

Trouble importing .mov files into FCP X

I'm relatively new to FCP so this could be a really easy fix. I took a bunch of short video clips (20s --> 1.5 min) on my Panasonic ZS25 and imported the clips to my MacBook Pro (2008 with 2GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory and 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor). [I have version 10.8.4 of OSX]. The clips from my camera were in .mts format so I used the Smart Convertor Pro App from the App Store to convert all 80 files to a .mov format. Both the converted clips and FCP X are stored on my 700 GB external, and while I tried to import the clips into FCP X, the program almost immediately froze and shut down. Thinking I "overloaded" (for lack of a better word) FCP X, I decided to try and delete the blank clips that were showing up in the program. However each time I attempted to click on a clip the program crashed again. I eventually was able to delete all the clips, and decided to move the converted clips from my external to my desktop. Once they were moved I then tried to import just one clip from the desktop to FCP X (which is still run through my external). Although it was successfully imported, once I clicked on the file to play it in FCP X the program crashed again.
What can possibly be the problem and what can I do to fix it?
Note: This is my first time using both my new camera (and having to deal with this .mts BS) as well as FCP X.

Thanks Russ, Tom, and Hughmass for all your input. It really is appreciated. Unfortunatly even after moving FCPX to my desktop and converting the .mov files in MPEGstreamclip, importing the movie clips into the program still causes random shut downs. Perhaps the clips are corrupted or something? I honestly don't know, and I'd rather kind of just ignore this problem then keep hashing away seeing as the clips aren't that important (and yes, being super smart, i deleted them off the camera well before hand).
Just to make sure FCPX works, I took some short clips on my Panasonic DMCZS25, and imported them successfully into FCPX and was able to edit together a quick piece. Thanks again for all your help!

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