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FCP Sequence Settings for Editing a Flip's MP4 Video Without Losing Sync

Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Uri Geva
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It turns out that importing an MP4 file shot by a Flip camera to FCP is not as intuitive as I thought it might be.

For a while everything was running smoothly but, as editing advanced to about the 2-minute point, the audio went out of sync by approximately 3-4 frames. That was the clue that I had a discrepancy between 30 and 29.97 fps. But, I had set my sequence to 30fps to match the raw footage I had imported. So what was going on? What I was doing wrong?

Kenneth Chan at Meyer Library was instrumental to figure it out. Thanks, Kenneth.

FCP Sequence Settings for Editing a Flip's MP4 Video

Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Uri Geva
in

It turns out that importing an MP4 file shot by a Flip camera to FCP is not as intuitive as I thought it might be. For a while everything was running smoothly but, as my editing advance to about the 2-minute point, the audio went out of synch by approximately 3-4 frames. That gave my the clue that I had a discrepancy between 30 and 29.97 fps. But, I had set my sequence to 30fps to match the raw footage I had imported. So what was going on? What I was doing wrong?

Together with Kenneth Chan at Meyer Library we were able to figure it out.