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Changing optimized Media settings
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Jeremy says- “When I say original files, i am not talking about the camera masters. You never trash those. I am talking about the original files in the “Original Media” folder in the fcpx Event. Depending on the source material of your footage, (that is, what kind of camera it was shot on) fcpx puts a rewrapped copy of the media in the original media folder.”
There it is. That’s what was confusing me. Makes perfect sense. Reading that earlier post, I was afraid that someone out there was going to end up deleting their original camera masters after optimizing. Thanks for clarifying, for their potential sake.
You are definitely giving solid advice.
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[David Eaks] “Reading that earlier post, I was afraid that someone out there was going to end up deleting their original camera masters after optimizing. “
Thank you for pointing it out! It’s an excellent observation.
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Yeah no problem. I got this knot in my stomach, thinking “why would you do that?” Then I couldn’t sleep once I finally put my head down and had to post. ; )
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Wow, happy to see that I ignited such an extensive exchange about this subject!
Thanx for all the interesting thoughts & input!Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
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Bill Davis said” So it’s an “anything comes in” – THEN – Build in X in ProRes (or Proxy if you have complex files and want more efficiency) and add all your edit and aesthetic decisions via metadata pointers – THEN – just let X create your output files by referencing all the quality of the original source files.”
So if you were using Pro Res to edit having created Optimised media how would you do this as you have the option “use optimised OR original media” But how do you tell FCPX to use the original media and not the Pro Res?
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Good point. Was asking myself the very same thing.
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
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…which is why I quite like the “create proxy workflow”. You know what you are dealing with…but if FCPX is only giving you the choice or “Optimised or Original;” so you actually just don’t know what files it is using.
Unless we are missing something and it just automatically selects the best quality file to save us the trouble? Which is possibly what is being suggested?
if not we should have the option of using Optimised OR original and being able to select for ourselves no??
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[James Ewart] “So if you were using Pro Res to edit having created Optimised media how would you do this as you have the option “use optimised OR original media” But how do you tell FCPX to use the original media and not the Pro Res?”
If you have created optimized media, it will use that. If you haven’t, it will use the original media folder.
If you have created optimized and for whatever reason choose not to use it, you have to trash it out of the Event folder > Transcoded Media > High Quality Media folder
You can see what media has been created on any clip by opening the info tab of the inspector. From the gear menu drop down choose “show file status” and there’s a list that says “Available Media Representations”.
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Many thanks Jeremy.
Trashing the files before output is the bit that was not mentioned I think which caused the confusion.
cheers
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Yes, Jeremy, many thanx. I second that.
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang
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