Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem
by John Hunter
on
Jan 30, 2009 at 5:16:49 pm
I'm using Snapz Pro 2.1.3 on a Mac 2.66 GHz Dual-Core tower with 8 GB of RAM.
I'm creating an Interactive demo reel, so I'm capturing video of browsing through websites.
I have the Snapz frame rate set to 30fps, the "use movie guides" box checked, the "smoother video capture" box checked, and the Camera Mode is set to "fixed camera".
For some reason, it's only capturing at 10fps.
I'm saving the clip out with the Animation codec and setting it to keyframe every frame (although I'm not sure what the best setting is there).
Can anyone help me with some solutions? I can't switch over to iShowU because I just purchased Snapz Pro yesterday and I don't want my company to think I just wasted $70! I really need to retain the highest quality and resolution. This video's end result is for the web and DVD. I've attached pictures of my FCP sequence settings and my imported clip's settings.
Re: Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem by Paulo Jan on Jan 30, 2009 at 5:22:31 pm
This has happened to me too. Even though the video created by Snapz Pro *is* actually 30fps (or 25fps in my case), for some reason FCP detects it as 10fps. The solution I found was to use Cinema Tools to reconform the clip to the fps I wanted (it doesn't alter the actual video in any way, from what I can tell; all it does is to "rewrite" the headers of the QT file to make really really sure that FCP detects properly the frame rate).
Re: Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem by Paulo Jan on Jan 30, 2009 at 8:48:20 pm
Open Cinema Tools. Ignore the initial screen where it asks you to create a database. Open the flip (File/Open), and then choose the "Clip/Conform" option.
Alternatively, if you want to do this to a lot of clips, you can use "File/Batch Conform".
Re: Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem by Alexandre Bouquin on Feb 23, 2009 at 3:20:24 pm
Thanks a lot Paulo,
Your post really helped me!
I confirm that Cinema Tools is the easiest and fastest way to get rid of the SPX captures being at 10fps when importing into FCP (even though they were captured at a higher framerate).
Re: Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem by Gordon Gurley on Jan 30, 2009 at 5:43:20 pm
I'm having a similar problem with Screenflick. Set it to record 30fps and it comes out as 30.03. FCP doesn't deal well with non standard frame rates it seems. When I bring those clips into FCP, the frame rate gets very odd and seems to change to 2.3 fps for some reason.
Gordon Gurley
Director of Operations
Stanford Video
Re: Snapz Pro and FCP sequence settings problem by John Hunter on Jan 30, 2009 at 9:49:59 pm
Ok, so I think I've figured it out.
Don't use the Animation codec when saving your movie capture through Snapz. Instead, use the h264 codec at 30fps (frame reordering box not checked). Keyframe every 500 frames, choose Multi-pass encoding mode, and drag the Compressor quality to Best.
The sequence settings I used in FCP are shown in the attached picture. My export settings out of FCP are shown here as well. This may not be someone's ideal method, but it worked for me and I'm happy.....for now!
