Never edit .mov files in FCP?
- Thread starter Cieloent
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Yes they are, but assuming anyone that had a Canon HDSLR they would understand what I was talking about.
.Mov files from the camera are very different to when I convert them into .Mov Pro Res and that is what I was referring too.
Regardless thanks for the somewhat helpful information.
A lot of people on this forum own Canon HDSLRs, and those who responded were justified in their need for clarification. The extension .mov indicates a Quicktime file. There are tons of different "codecs" that can be used to make a .mov file, and it is therefore quite vague to simply say .mov or Quicktime file in the world of non linear editing. FCP is a Quicktime based editing software program. However, the .mov files imported directly from your Canon HDSLR won't perform well in FCP because the codec used in those particular .mov files (Quicktimes) is H.264. This is a codec that is more appropriate for delivery and not editing. When you transcode the H.264 files into ProRes, you are essentially expanding a highly compressed Quicktime file into a larger, more "elaborate" file that is more suitable for editing. So, to answer your question- .mov is ideal for editing in FCP; it just has to be a .mov file with an appropriate codec (which ProRes certainly is and H.264 is not). Hope that helped.
NoahK
Hottie Mod
Yup- exactly correct. .MOV is a container that holds a myriad of codecs. Some are supported by FCP, some are not and must be transcoded. For example, you can indeed drop H.264 .MOV files from say a Canon 5D or 7D into FCP and start cutting, but you'll achieve optimum performance and quality by first transcoding into ProRes as that's a codec FCP is more suited to. But it's still a .MOV file one way or the other.
Noah
Noah
Excellent post, thank you. In the future I will try to explain myself better, my mistake.
Very helpful information and I thank everyone who posted and these great forums that have helped me so much!