belloq

I am not a pro, but I’ll try to explain my situation. Before importing video clips into the browser or inserting the clip into a sequence, I ensured my FCP 7 settings were correct for my video: 23.98 (23.976) etc. My video clip was verified to be a certain time length by the apple finder info, VLCplayer and Quicktime. But when it is when imported into the FCP browser, it is significantly shortened/accelerated in time, which destroys the sync to the already separate audio tracks. The audio tracks are then imported into the FCP browser, but retain their correct time lengths. I’ve transcoded the video to Prores 422 LT and Prores 422 HQ files in Quicktime Pro and Mpegstreamclip and the shortening/acceleration upon import happens in all cases. This problem has arisen for various users and situations over several years as described in the numerous threads below. The only potential workarounds by “Benny Krown” and “Thomas Davis” in the first thread below appear to require the double or triple transcoding of files that often are already in Prores, which is obviously a sub-optimal solution. Has anyone solved this or found any new workarounds?

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1084387
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7319047
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1160685
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1132569
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1167772
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1151482
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1106140
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Fan-Edit-Sync-Issue-Please-Help/id/16548