Final Cut Pro Movie Files??? at DVinfo.net

James Blackburn · January 29th, 2007, 04:34 AM

I've backup up a load of movies as HD final cut pro movies files exported as quicktime movies.
When I try playing them back all i get is the audio and I get an error saying it is searching for movie data?

Can anyone enlighten me

James

Adam Oas · January 30th, 2007, 09:02 AM

I'm going to guess that you're trying to watch these movies on a different computer than the one you did the encode in.

I'll also guess that you Didgitized natively in HDV

Thirdly I'll guess that you don't have FCP 5 installed on the computer you're trying to watch these files on.

The result of which is that you can't watch HDV files on a computer untill you've installed FCP which also includes the correct codecs.

Meryem Ersoz · January 30th, 2007, 09:39 AM

my guess is that you might not have checked "make movie self-contained"--(or at some point unchecked this, since it is the default) when you exported out of FCP, which means you are looking at reference files, rather than self-contained quicktime vids.

completely guessing here....best of luck.

January 29th, 2007, 04:34 AM	#1
James Blackburn Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Posts: 34	Final Cut Pro Movie Files??? I've backup up a load of movies as HD final cut pro movies files exported as quicktime movies. When I try playing them back all i get is the audio and I get an error saying it is searching for movie data? Can anyone enlighten me James

January 30th, 2007, 09:02 AM	#2
Adam Oas Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Fort Worth TX Posts: 69	I'm going to guess that you're trying to watch these movies on a different computer than the one you did the encode in. I'll also guess that you Didgitized natively in HDV Thirdly I'll guess that you don't have FCP 5 installed on the computer you're trying to watch these files on. The result of which is that you can't watch HDV files on a computer untill you've installed FCP which also includes the correct codecs. __________________ ~~~Adam Oas~~~ www.TexasMotorSpeedway.com

January 30th, 2007, 09:39 AM	#3
Meryem Ersoz Wrangler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 3,015	my guess is that you might not have checked "make movie self-contained"--(or at some point unchecked this, since it is the default) when you exported out of FCP, which means you are looking at reference files, rather than self-contained quicktime vids. completely guessing here....best of luck.