Final Cut Pro

[masaeurope]

Hi folks,

I give up... After 2 days of trying and testing I need to ask here.

I am desperately looking for the correct parameters. I want to edit the output in Final Cut Pro.
The compression can either be MPEG4 or H.264. Awesome would be Apple ProRes, but I don't have this patch installed.

I did have some sort of success but for each result I got, FCP wanted to render. Either the video track or the audio track. And YES, I let FCP adjust the sequence settings to the video file ("The sequence settings differ from the footage want to adjust? YES!").

How do I get files that I can use in FCP w/o any need to render it in FCP??

thank you so much,
masa

[edDV]

Hi folks,

I give up... After 2 days of trying and testing I need to ask here.

I am desperately looking for the correct parameters. I want to edit the output in Final Cut Pro.
The compression can either be MPEG4 or H.264. Awesome would be Apple ProRes, but I don't have this patch installed.

I did have some sort of success but for each result I got, FCP wanted to render. Either the video track or the audio track. And YES, I let FCP adjust the sequence settings to the video file ("The sequence settings differ from the footage want to adjust? YES!").

How do I get files that I can use in FCP w/o any need to render it in FCP??

thank you so much,
masa

Not much info provided. FCP uses the AIC or ProRes422 for these formats.

[masaeurope]

Not much info provided. FCP uses the AIC or ProRes422 for these formats.

What info do you miss? I'll provide them.

[edDV]

What is your source format?
What is your project setting?

Wanted to render what?

"How do I get files that I can use in FCP w/o any need to render it in FCP??"

You match project format to source format. For FCP that would be DV or uncompressed unless you first convert to a digital intermediate (AIC or ProRes422).

[masaeurope]

What is your source format?
What is your project setting?

Wanted to render what?

"How do I get files that I can use in FCP w/o any need to render it in FCP??"

You match project format to source format. For FCP that would be DV or uncompressed unless you first convert to a digital intermediate (AIC or ProRes422).

edDV thank you for your help.

Well, my source format is flash (flv). I need to convert flv to [FCP-compatible format]. Not a rethoric, but simple question, I'm learning (!): Does that matter?

Output-Format should be a .mov, H.264 or MPEG4, size = source, high-quality (no or few quality-loss, close to the original as much as possible), audio should be stereo in same quality as source. I did try several dozens of setttings. This one comes pretty close to what I need:

ffmpeg -i ./source/input_file.flv -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -s 800x450  -ar 44100 -ab 256k ./results/output_file.mov

Even though I adjusted the sequence settings to the output-file FCP still wants to render the clip (red line for video track).

[edDV]

You get the red line for any non-supported video format. flv isn't directly supported.

I don't know how to deal with non-standard resolutions in FCP. Premiere Pro is avaialble for OSX and can support arbitrary frame sizes but you would still need to decompress flv to RGB or YCbCr.

[masaeurope]

You get the red line for any non-supported video format. flv isn't directly supported.

?!?! Yes, that's why I am using ffmpeg, in order to convert it into a standard video format. ?!

[rumplestiltskin]

"standard" for FCP is AIC (Apple Intermediate codec). It makes huge files so make sure you have plenty of HD space. Once you're done editing you can transcode it into a delivery format (like H264/MP4).