Final Cut Pro is the evil doom Dx

kittehpawz · Post by **kittehpawz** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:45 pm

I jsut got a mac form my dad its a g4 and its like not the newest version of osx so nothign seems to work right wiht it x.x; Anyways i got final cut pro 4 but for some reason after i import anythign its like "unrendered" when i try to play it >> Then when i try to render it it says like 13 hours remaining Dx; Is there any way I can fix this? D:

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:05 pm

What format/codec for the clips you're using?

kittehpawz · Post by **kittehpawz** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:19 pm

Scintilla wrote:What format/codec for the clips you're using?

its an mp4 but i have tried avi too .. if i remember the mpegs woudlnt even load in... x.X; i got some codecs so the avi files would play xp

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:15 am

I wrote a whole tutorial on the pre-editing conversion process for the Mac. You'll want to read all the pages in the Concept section. Yes, it will take some time, but making AMVs has a learning curve.

KagatoAMV · Post by **KagatoAMV** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:08 pm

Yeah, FCP doesn't handle mp4 video as an editable medium very well. I usually convert to DV before I edit.

kittehpawz · Post by **kittehpawz** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:02 pm

shazzy wrote:I wrote a whole tutorial on the pre-editing conversion process for the Mac. You'll want to read all the pages in the Concept section. Yes, it will take some time, but making AMVs has a learning curve.

thank you so much <333>w<

kittehpawz · Post by **kittehpawz** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:05 pm

Studio Hybrid wrote:Yeah, FCP doesn't handle mp4 video as an editable medium very well. I usually convert to DV before I edit.

ne only problem with dv is its a very huge file format x.X;

KagatoAMV · Post by **KagatoAMV** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:15 pm

kittehpawz wrote:
ne only problem with dv is its a very huge file format x.X;

Thats true.

Macs do seem to be able to work with DV footage very reliably though.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:17 am

Scintilla wrote:What format/CODEC for the clips you're using?

That's much more important than the container.

kittehpawz · Post by **kittehpawz** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:13 pm

Gepetto wrote:
Scintilla wrote:What format/CODEC for the clips you're using?
That's much more important than the container.

well im trying to mess with dvix codec/avi format now but it still saying like 10 minutes to render like a 10 second clip so thats not working for me... x.x; it also like shut downs when i try to change sequence settigns for some reason ._.; I have the dvix codec downloaded for my mac so they do play in quicktime fine xp