Capture in QT 7 + FCP = Problems

MangoEater

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Hi all -

Surely this can't be...

Movies captured with the new capture feature of QT7.0 don't seem to be able to be imported into Final Cut Pro.

I think that capturing with QT offers many advantages rather than using FCP to capture (not as much overhead, individual file name control, etc.). So I really wanted to use this new feature. But when I try to import the captured movie into FCP, I get a "file format unknown" error.

However, I have a little program (gCam) that does nearly the same thing as the QT capture. When I tried it (after upgrading to 10.4 and QT7) it worked beautifully and the movie could be imported into FCP no problem.

So I tried to look at the differences in movies captured using QT and gCam. They were identical (DVCPRO - NTSC) except for one thing. QT captured at 640x480 and gCam captured at 720x480. Other than that I really couldn't see any difference in the movie properties.

I think that this is a significant problem. Is there any work-around. Any way to change settings? I sure would like to be able to use QT capture and later import into FCP.

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Peace.

Joel
 
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