FCPx in local TV

[Steve Connor]

[Ben Edwards] “If you are saying you have FCPx working in a small (commercial) station broadcasting to cable/satellite or terrestrial I would love to talk to you about how you did it/what problems you have etc. Probably best to take this off forum as the thread is getting quite big.
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Actually it’s exactly the sort of thing that we like to hear on this forum. Thread size isn’t an issue on here!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[Thomas Frank]

I think we all can share, no?

Well all our footage come in solid state or gets captured to ProRes and moved on to a RAID where everybody has access to.
The footage then gets edited also receives its voice over (depends on the project). If needed we have created lower 3rds in Motion which can be access in FCPX. Kinda cool.
After the edits are done they are send out as ProRes LT and then played out over the routing system or gets sends out.
Thanks for the latest version all the clips can me exporter to Stems if need to in your pipeline.

[Ben Edwards]

What’s the station, website would be great.

Sharings great:)

Ben

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Ben Edwards – Freelance Filmmaker
https://www.funkytwig.com

[James Mortner]

agreed, I could really use a system like that

[Thomas Frank]

[Dave LaRonde] “You could be right, but then you’re also aware that TV stations take satellite feeds, uplink, do newscasts, do live shots, download & deliver spots to & from digital delivery services, run syndicated programming, make spots, make promos, make programs, and run subchannels. “

Are your saying you can’t make spots, programs and promos with FCPX?
The rest you mention can be done with FCP7 and Premiere?

[Darren Kelly]

So Craig, what you are saying is the FCPX DOES transcode avchd to prores, it just does it quickly in the background. That’s a different answer to the the one you gave, which said it doesn’t have to transcode.

It does.

[Thomas Frank]

I am just asking on what you have wrote…

There are many things that you mention that can be done and not be done with the three big A’s.
But all can send out feed right?

[Craig Seeman]

[Darren Kelly] “So Craig, what you are saying is the FCPX DOES transcode avchd to prores, it just does it quickly in the background. That’s a different answer to the the one you gave, which said it doesn’t have to transcode.”

You can have it transcode or not. It’s a preference setting. It works just fine if you don’t transcode though assuming a reasonably powered system.

In fact if you want to talk about iOS AV Foundation innovations, consider that your iPhone or IPad with iMovie is editing H.264 (no transcode) on those devices.

Personally I haven’t yet found the need to transcode. AVCHD, H.264 .mp4, H.264 .mov all work in FCPX just fine. No transcode.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Darren Kelly] “So Craig, what you are saying is the FCPX DOES transcode avchd to prores, it just does it quickly in the background. “

You have a choice.

You can rewrap to “avc1” (h264) .mov.

You can transcode to ProRes, or Proxy which takes longer than the rewrap.

All of that happens in the background. you can edit while transcoding, for example.

Jeremy

[Thomas Frank]

You can send out a file from all NLE that can be played out or a signal out. Which if they deliver what they promise with FCPX.

I can imagine the next FCPX update will show the near future for FCPX.