• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Maximum Project Duration?

  Posted by Greg Fulcher on August 26, 2011 at 5:50 pm

  Hi there — I’ve yet to start dabbling with FCP X, and searches within this forum and the web-at-large haven’t revealed what the maximum duration of a project timeline is in FCP X. I know in FCP 7 it’s 12 hours.

  I have a project with about 100 hours of 720p footage captured from a GoPro camera mounted in my car on a recent coast-to-coast roadtrip.

  This personal project alone is enough to convince me to give FCP X a go, if it can handle longer projects…

  Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance,
  -greg

  1013media | produce. edit. enable.
  San Francisco, CA | http://www.1013media.com

  Michael Largé replied 14 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Geoff Dills

  August 26, 2011 at 6:14 pm

  Seems to be infinity and beyond. Took a generator clip and kept trimming right, could have gone forever I think. Timeline clock is just that, a 24 hour clock. When you get to 23 59 59 29 it goes to zero (adjust for frame rate :] )

  Best,
  Geoff
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  Greg Fulcher

  August 26, 2011 at 6:20 pm

  Thanks Geoff, for your test…

  I’d be curious if anyone has imported media longer than 12 hours, but it sounds like the 12:00:00;00 limitation might be no longer.

  Best,
  -greg

  1013media | produce. edit. enable.
  San Francisco, CA | http://www.1013media.com
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  Michael Largé

  August 27, 2011 at 1:39 am

  Greg,

  Please correct me if I’m wrong, but do you want to import 12+ hours of media into your timeline at one time?

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