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Sequence setting advice needed for editing AVIs from Canon PowerShotPosted by Organ Leroy
I'm editing a couple of shorts using footage that I shot on a Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS in movie mode.
Quicktime identifies the clips' format as "Apple OpenDML JPEG 640 x 480, Millions"; 30FPS The Mac's finder identifies the clips with the .AVI suffix and calls each an "AVI Movie." Each clip opens and plays perfectly in Quicktime. When I import the clips into FCP, they play fine in the Viewer, but always must have their video rendered once they're edited into the Timeline. Is there a sequence preset I can select (or is there any other change I can make) that will remove the need to render each clip as I edit it into the Timeline? My specs: MacBook Pro 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo OS X 10.5.7 FCP 6.06 Any advice much appreciated.
well im surprised FCP accepts avi's at all. QuickTime of course, but FCP is made for mov's. Probably why it's not offering to auto-adjust the sequence settings to your source material.
Anyway, this is an old trick, pre-auto adjusting and open format sequence days. Select the clip in the bin, right click and say make multi-clip sequence. It will now create a sequence based off your clip and place a multi-clip version of your clip in that sequence. Delete the multi-clip and then re-add your clip and it should play back fine.
Scott's workaround might be okay ? I've never used it, so I can't say ? but you'll be much less likely to encounter other problems in the future if you just batch-convert everything into a format that's known to be reliable. My default would be ProRes 422, NTSC D1, but that might not fit your needs. Once all your footage is in a known-to-be-reliable format, you should be able to get it into Final Cut Pro and work with it without any trouble at all. (Emphasis on "should."
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