FCP cannot import from camera disc some clips labelled proxy. Others import okay. Don't understand this. Any ideas? Apple Air OS 14.6.1 FCP 10.6.8
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Original Title: Final Cut Pro
MacBook Air, macOS 14.6
What are the media specs of the camera-generated proxies?
This might be helpful: https://youtu.be/8K6sjbneYUU
Or, import the high quality media and have FCP create proxies while importing or after the fact.
Create optimized and proxy files in Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support
Thanks for your interest and help, Terry. I am blundering through this with some success although I have little idea what I'm doing. What seems to work is to transcode the recalcitrant files. I am doing both optimisation and proxy. This brings the images into the program. Then I'm offered the opportunity to Reimport from Camera Archive, and that seems to work. But the transcoding is a SLOOOOOOOOOW process!
Hi Luis,
No idea. I just did both as a belt & braces operation. Anyway, it worked. I received duplicate images in the program. One of each pair was the dreaded red signal, so I just deleted those. The other image in each pair was fine, and this time I didn't need to reimport afterwards from the camera archive. So I don't know just what I did, but, thankfully, it worked and I can now start editing our safari in Botswana!
Thanks for your attention.
After doing some editing (which is of course the fun part) spend a little time with these free tutorials and many if not most of your questions that you ran into while editing will be answered. Ultimately you'll save a ton of time and the finished video will be better.
Steve at Ripple Training’s 60 minute FCP tutorial overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqUP7Zgeuck
Final Cut Bro getting started https://youtu.be/L3bZ-ETKZ8U
Hi Terry,
I've been making videos for 25 years. mostly learning by doing, and so I keep stumbling over new tricks and discovering new confounding wrinkles, like proxies, which I've never bothered about before. So, I think it's about time to follow your sound advice and get some formal instruction. I'll have a look at those videos before starting the next project.
Many thanks for your help!
Sorry, wrong information. FCP is operating on an iMac 17,1 using OS Monterey version 12.6.3
Do you really NEED to transcode, and both proxy and optimized?
Most users probably don't, and almost never need both.
Unable to import Final Cut Pro proxy clips from camera disc
