{"id":890,"date":"2007-09-24T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=890"},"modified":"2007-09-29T13:21:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:21:26","slug":"final-cut-pro-recognizing-the-source-of-a-problem-frame-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Final Cut Pro: Recognizing a Problem – Frame Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYesterday, I made a rare visit to Apple’s Discussion<\/strong> board. I read several help questions posted for Final Cut Pro. And one of them caught my interest. It appeared that the person posting this topic had trouble importing a video clip from Stock Photography<\/strong> (www.istockphoto.com). He noted that the video compressor is Photo JPEG<\/strong>. Hmm… Final Cut Pro should have no trouble importing video clips that are compressed with Photo JPEG, I thought. I also thought that the video clip probably had no file extension, which caused Final Cut Pro to fail to recognize the file. But that wasn’t the case. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I got this video clip so that I could help him more closely. And he was right. My Final Cut Pro 6 refused to accept the file though there was a file extension.<\/p>\n

Using Final Cut Pro requires some skills as it’s not an easy guy to get along with. One important skill is to recognize the problem and then to find a possible workaround.
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\"Final<\/a><\/td>\n <\/td>\nSo I used two tools to possibly identify the problem. One is Squared 5<\/strong>‘s MPEG Streamclip<\/strong>, which I used to check the video compressor and the frame rate of the video clip. You can also use VideoLAN<\/strong>‘s VLC<\/strong> to check the parameters. The other tool is Apple’s QuickTime Pro<\/strong>. Basically, I used it to re-compress the video clip.<\/p>\n

Anyway, MPEG confirmed to me that the video compressor is Photo JPEG. The video resolution is 640 x 360 pixels. And its Show Stream Info<\/strong> also shows that the frame rate is 23.976.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Maybe, there is some sort of DRM<\/strong> that prevents me from importing the video clip to Final Cut Pro? I doubted that possibility. But I went ahead and recompressed the video with Photo JPEG. I wasn’t fully conscious at first, but it turned out that I recompressed it at a frame rate of 24. Anyway, Final Cut Pro accepted the video clip, which I named test01.mov.
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\nAfter all, it’s some sort of copy-protection algorithm that prevented me from importing the video clip to Final Cut Pro? But that didn’t sound right. So I turned my attention to the frame rate this time. And, using QuickTime Pro, I recompressed the video at the original frame rate. This time, I named the clip test02.mov. And if I drag and drop this clip onto Final Cut Pro’s Browser… Ahh… Final Cut Pro doesn’t read it.<\/p>\n

So we now know what’s stopping Final Cut Pro from reading the original video clip. It’s the frame rate. Final Cut Pro appears not to like the frame rate of 23.976. So a simple solution to the problem is to change the frame rate to 24 fps.
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