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Author:	Topic: Importing Cinepak AVIs
danny22 Member
	Posted: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:21AM	Email Print Text-only View thread
	I am working on a project where we are creating 3D scenes first from a PC program. This program can only export as AVI, which is imported fine into our FCP systems. However, I noticed that the settings with which the AVI files are being imported do not match those that are exported. For example, 2 videos (exactly the same) were exported from the 3D program with a setting of 25fps, yet FCP is reading them as 17fps. One was exported with a Cinepak compression and another uncompressed - yet both files are read as being compressed with Cinepak codecs. Anybody had any issues with this that they managed to resolve? Does not necessarily need to be AVIs or Cinepak compressed videos as I am sure it is a setting somewhere which is universal to importing files. Cheers Danny
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Author:	Topic: Re: Importing Cinepak AVIs
nickscale Member $nickscale$
	Posted: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:29PM	Email Print Text-only View thread
	Hmmm, not sure if this will help, but I have had experience of Quicktime misreporting AVI frame rates, even after transcoding it to a Quicktime codec (e.g. Animation). Is it actually playing them at the wrong rate, or is it just misreporting it? What's your 3D package? I'm surprised it doesn't offer exporting to image sequences, which would be my preferred choice. Either way, try converting it to an image sequence on the PC before transferring it.
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