cant make video transitions in fcp7

[Alex Sorkin]

hi, I have a few clips that i've re-wraped with clipwrap ,and when I import them to fcp they play choppy and i cant share or export the sequence, fcp crushes. in output format the only other formats that are available except re-wraping, are dv and aic, and in both formats the playback is excellent, but when I try to add video transitions I get the error massage "there was insufficient media for the requested transion at one or more edit points." the duration of both clips is about 2 minutes/ plz help

[Colin McFadden]

Hi there -

On playing rewrapped clips in Fcp - rewrapped avchd is super CPU intensive, and Fcp doesn't have optimizations for it yet, so choppiness is possible, particularly on a less-than speedy machine.

As far as other formats, clipwrap uses the codecs installed on your computer, so if you dont have prores installed (it comes with final cut 6 and 7) clipwrap won't see it.

Finally, the message about insufficient media is just a normal Fcp thing - sounds like you don't have handles on your media. Check FCP help for more info on adding transitions and what.

[Alex Sorkin]

thank you for the input

[Alex Sorkin]

do you know a way of mybe reinstalling prores lt or proxy on fcp7?

[Colin McFadden]

I *think* if you install the "qmaster node" package from the DVD, that'll install all the prores codecs.