Using "848x480, 60fps, .mov" files in FCP

Here's my scenario:
Source files:
.mov
60fps
848x480
Intended use:
I want to slow down these files to 30fps so that they're in slow motion.
Question:
How can I do this most efficiently?
Question:
Can I convert these files to slow motion outside of Final Cut Pro to save time and promote efficiency?

Use Cinema Tools to "Conform" them to a new frame rate...
This doesn't alter the picture data (odd dimensions, btw), it simply changes the playback rate setting in the QuickTime movie.
Patrick

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And you can't make a DVD that is HD; DVDs are standard definition. You can make Blu-ray discs with a Blu-ray burner and Blu-ray player, but you DVDs will only be 720x480.
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Hi there - I am having some problems using CFFile to move
files from one directory to another. It only seems to only move
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there is nothing specific about which files are moved - different
files are moved each time. There are no error messages that are
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Any help would be much appreciated!! My code is below.

First, an incidental matter. I don't think there's any need
for so many try-catch tags. I would expect all the tags <cffile
action="move"> to throw the same class of exception, and so
would use one try-catch for them all. Even if you expect different
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Out put quality after DVD authoring is less than .mov file that fcp source

Anyone know why I would be getting a notable drop in quality after i make a dvd?
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Using Toast, Encore, or FCS 3 you can move toward blu-ray authoring and encoding. In Toast and FCS 3 you can make AVCHD disks which are blu-ray disks put onto single or dual-layer DVDs which is a huge cost savings. Your encoding is limited to 17 Mbps, but in h.264 that will still allow for decent quality. Encore will let you design a complete disk but it doesn't make AVCHD disks - you'll need to jump through some hoops in order to take an Encore project (but it can be done). Here's a workflow for that. As a side note this workflow is for using Final Cut Express - in FCS you have the added benefit of being able to work with 23.98 fps timelines.
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I tried a new 16:9 project. In this new project FCP the video is exported in 16:9 format.
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FCP is designed to work with professional cameras, and a slew of consumer types. It is NOT suited for raw cel phone video, and most video types that point and shoot cameras record. For those cameras you need to convert the footage to the type that FCP works with. If you look in the EASY SETUPS in the Final Cut Pro menu, you will see the codecs that FCP works with.
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Because it is meant to be used with consumer formats. But note, it converts a lot of the footage to an Apple codec in the background...or does rendering in the background to a uniform codec. It is designed for people who just want to drop footage in and go. But lacks many professional attributes. BUT, if it works, use that.
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Here's what I see on the DVD:
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s63/jtnacc/ishot-4.jpg
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Hi Piero... Congrats man... your explanation is the best simple explanation of getting material off a DVD into a form where it can be editied in FCP.
Just to make it clear to anyone else...
1- go to http://www.squared5.com/ and download the FREE program MPEG STREAMCLIP.
Install it in your applications folder. Start Mpeg Streamclip, and insert the DVD into your drive.
2- Go to FILE > OPEN and use that to navigate to the DVD, look in the video_ts file and select the first .vob file of a series, e.g. VTS010.VOB; you'll be asked if you want to open all files of that stream, and you answer yes. You'd better also apply the command Edit/Remove Timecode Breaks before exporting.
This takes a minute or three depending on how much material ois on the DVD.
3 - Now go to the Mpeg Streamclip command line and select **Export to QuickTime** (NOT Export to DV)
Use these settings :
Compression: Apple DV-PAL (DV-PAL for UK/Europe, or Apple DV-DVCPRO/NTSC), Quality: 100%,
fps: 25 for PAL or 29,97 for NTSC,
Audio: uncompressed, Stereo, 48 KHz.
AND hit go !
Mpeg Streamclip will promt you to name the new file name and a location for saving.
This can take a minute for every minute of material.. so is a slow process.
I decided to use the "in" and "out" markers on Mpeg Streamclip to define smaller chunks of the DVD to convert at a time... rather than risk it running for 40 minutes and crashing (which it did first time). If you're ripping the DVD for editing purposes then this should not cause any problems.
Once it's finished, go to the save location, and you should see a Quicktime movie with the name you gave it.
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MARVELOUS
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few days back i shoot with xdcam, but i didnot know that time i need all the files to do editing in fcpx so i delet all support files n just copy the main video file which is in mp4 fermat.
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plz somebody canhelp me with this. im really tried with this problume

innocentius wrote:
Does he not need tools like XDCAM transfer (or XDCAM browser) from Sony ?
midnightraj said he had converted the mp4 movie to mov, and that this mov file played (albeit dropping frames) inside FCP X, so my perspective was in working with content thas was already inside FCP X.
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When I add my 16:9 .mov video, created in FCP with Export: Quicktime Movie: DV PAL anamorphic to iDVD I get a 4:3 video.
I changed to .mov file with QT: properties: conform aperture, but this does not help.
I have an old .mov file from February where I have no problems that iDVD is converting the 16:9 to 4:3.
How can I get a 16:9 video in iDVD ?
Thanks,
Hubert Anemaat

I have managed to burn with iDVD and 16:9 no problem exporting movies out of both iMovie09and FCE.
What theme are you using? Some of the themes in iDVD are 4:3 themes and may very well mess up your movie?
If you want one of the 4:3 themes, you can always letterbox your 16:9 movie so that it has black bands top and bottom and fills the 4:3 window. But that diminishes the visual size of the movie.
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How do I find the codec used for a .mov file?

I have a .mov file from 2001 that I can't play. How do I find the correct codec to use for this. Is there somewhere in the file itself some kind of reference to the codec used? I've installed pretty much everything I could find in terms of codecs. I don't care whether on mac or windows. Just need the right codec.
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Still no luck
If anybody out there wanna give it a try please download this clip
http://mhp.tv2nord-digital.dk/fileadmin/resources/thor/dv-00.27.04.11-V180.mov
If you can play it please please let me know with which codec.... I have a whole bunch of files with this codec I need to use
Best regards
Thorbjørn

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