Final Cut H264 Codec Error
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enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. jpories Level 1 (0 points) Q: Missing Codec Error? Hey final cut people! I got a big problem!I have a project in Final Cut Pro 7.0, and every time I open a project (any project, or general error final cut pro 7 just the application itself via the dock), I get an error message saying "Codec not found. fcp 7 general error out of memory You may be using a compression type without a corresponding hardware card." Then, after clicking "OK", I am greeted to a half-open project: the final cut pro error out of memory Browser and Viewer are open to the project, but the timeline and canvas aren't open, and are greyed out in the "window" menu. Thus, final cut is inoperable. I can open a clip in the browser and play it in
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the viewer, but that's about it.All my footage is shot with a Nikon D5100, 1080p .MOV's.My computer is a Late 2008 iMac, with 4gb of RAM and 175gb of free space on both my harddrive and external harddrive. It's running Lion 10.7.1My final cut is version 7.0 and I am not able to update it (long story, I don't wanna get into it).Quicktime player is acting normal, I am able to open the files in finder and play them in Quicktime, mpeg streamclip so it seems that any missing codecs aren't affecting it. I looked at other answers on here and they didn't seem to help. I looked in the Quicktime folder in ~/Library to check my codecs, and there are so many, I'm not sure if anything's missing. This problem is very sudden, I haven't touched my Library folder in months and the last time I opened final cut, a few weeks ago, all was well. I am in dire need of a fix pretty soon, thanks in advance for all your help!!! Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X (10.7.1) Posted on Dec 10, 2011 11:50 PM I have this question too Close Q: Missing Codec Error? All replies Helpful answers by Studio X, Studio X Dec 11, 2011 6:09 AM in response to jpories Level 7 (27,074 points) Dec 11, 2011 6:09 AM in response to jpories There are at least two issuse at work here.1.Upgrades Did you upgrade to 10.7 as a clean install or do an overwrite installation? If an overwrite installation, you may have issues. If you did a pro app migration to a new computer, you may have issues. Not all program elements get transfered.2. Non native codecsDid you convert whatever format the Nikon records to ProRes? If not, you should. FCP does not like h.264 native material and all sorts of funky things happen when you try to edit it directly.In a best case scenario
or MOV files to Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X, you will be noticed "File error" and you just fail to add and import MP4/MOV to Final Cut though the MP4 or MOV files can play in QuickTime. The fact is that you are trying to import files with codec that FCP does not support. Your MP4 or MOV files may use a codec which is not an editting codec supported by Final Cut. MP4 or MOV is a container which can contain video and audio components encoded with different types (codecs). Earily versions of Final Cut Pro like Final Cut Pro 6, Final Cut Pro 5, Final Cut Pro HD are unable to import MP4 or MOV encoded with any codec. Though the latest Final Cut Pro https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3561707?tstart=0 7 and Final Cut Pro X can import MP4 or MOV encoded in H.264, they still cannot import MP4 or MOV encoded with other video codec. In order to add the MP4 or MOV files that won't import to Final Cut, you can convert MP4 or MOV to the editting format Apple Intermediate codec, Apple ProRes or DV. We also recommend you convert your H.264 MP4 or MOV files to editting format Apple Intermediate codec, Apple ProRes or DV before you import to http://www.techisky.com/tips/how-to-solve-final-cut-wont-import-mp4mov-files.html MP4 to avoid long long time rendering process (Compressed format files will need to be rendered to editting format before you can edit the files in Final Cut and usually it will take quite a long time while converting MP4 or MOV to ProRes or DV or AIC before importing will save lots of time.) Step-by-Step Guide to Convert MP4/MOV to ProRes to import to Fincal Cut Pro Prepare: Free download MP4 to Final Cut Converter Step 1: Add source files to the program Click the "Add Video" button to import MP4 or MOV files to MP4 to Final Cut Converter. Or you can simply drag & drop your files to the program interface Step 2: Set output format as Apple ProRes Click on the "Format" drop-down list and choose "Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)" or "Apple ProRes 422(HQ)(*.mov)" or "Apple ProRes 44444 (*.mov)" from "Final Cut" category. Step 3: Convert MP4 or MOV to ProRes Press on the big "Convert" button at the bottom right to start converting MP4 to Apple ProRes on Mac (Mavericks/Mountain Lion included). Step 4: Import MP4 or MOV to Final Cut Pro/Final Cut Pro X When conversion finished, located the converted file and import to Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Pro X. Posted by admin at 1:54 pm Tagged with: can final cut support import mp4, can mov import to final cut, can't import mp4 to final cut, fcp won't import mov, fcp won't import mp4, final cut pro x won
Gigs are full of a lot of things other than cached files, so the actual number is even a bit smaller. The only thing that you can do to prevent http://blog.youdownwithfcp.com/2012/07/17/how-to-fix-out-of-memory-error-in-final-cut-pro-7/ the error is actually to use less memory. Thankfully, here are a bunch of tips on how to do that. 1) NEVER edit in h.264 or any other compressed format. It will add a little bit of transcoding time to the beginning, but it will prevent a lot of rendering and rerendering once in the edit. 2) Make your sequence settings (ideally) prores, and make sure that all of your footage is transcoded to the same flavor of prores (LT, final cut HQ, 4444, whatever) This applies to framerate as well! 3) Ensure that your audio is aiff (not mp3) and at the same settings as your timeline. 4) Resize all stills to rough video sizes. 30,000 pixel wide files will bog down fcp immediately so crop or scale it down to something closer to your timeline resolution. If photoshop does this once, then fcp doesn't need to do it a million times. 5) Flat stills are easier than layered files. FCP doesn't final cut pro have to deal with the precomp that psds or layered tiffs come in as. 6) Close unneeded tabs in the timeline and canvas. So that's basically it. Pre-process your footage to be 100% the same as your timeline and work with as few sequences open as possible. In my experience it seems that once things start erroring there is very little that helps outside of a restart. ~ by ross on July 17, 2012. Posted in FCP, glitch 5 Responses to "How to fix "Out of memory" error in Final Cut Pro 7" Thanks for the list Ross. I keep coming up against that wretched message all the time even when using ProRes… Then again I've been working on some pretty hefty HD projects recently. Have found that if you get the message, flushing some render files using Tools->Render Manager can free up enough memory to get you going again. It's only a temporary fix since the cache will fill up again but it keeps you going when the deadline looms. J John Weeks said this on July 24, 2012 at 4:01 am I am editing a LONG piece (trt 5 hours) and have a TON of footage - all h.264 clips. I created a ProRez seq, and the render time was over 20 hours. Seriously. Also, the render took about 100 GIGS. And this is just an hour long seq. I have 4 more to go! Plus, if