FCPX Preferences Not Working

[Reid Alt]

Crap, the more and more digging I am doing, the more it looks like FCPX won’t edit AVCHD natively, even though everything I read beforehand (even from Apple!) indicated that it would. Well, that sucks. I guess I’m just gonna keep all the footage on an external HDD and import the footage from there, creating only one copy on my internal iMac hard drive. I suppose that’s a solution, but I just don’t like the idea of double importing.

I’ll leave the thread as unanswered for a little bit longer, in hopes that someone may be able to prove me wrong (or right?) and that I’ve just been missing one simple step. Thanks a lot for all the help, everyone.

[Geoff Dills]

[Jeremy Garchow] “As I said before, AVCHD will always transcode to ProRes. “

When I examined the info on a FCPX clip I imported from an AVCHD file, it says it’s 1920×1080 H.264, Linear PCM, Timecode. Seems it’s still in it’s original codec with a quicktime movie wrapper.

Best,
Geoff

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes, sorry. I was wrong about that.

It still wraps to a QT movie, just got the codec wrong! 😉

Apologies,

Jeremy

[Martijn Schroevers]

I use a 128 GB SSD as my root drive for speed and a 10 TB RAID for my Media. How do I avoid FCPX transcoding (or copying any files) to the Root drive??

[Jeff Greenberg]

Create your projects and Events on the Raid.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Martijn Schroevers]

Jeff,

I DID put my projects and Events on the RAID. It’s just that FCPX transcodes any DSLR H264 footage automatically to the movies folder on your root drive. The only way it seems to me to avoid that is NOT to transcode. Is there any fix for that??

[Jeff Greenberg]

I haven’t seen this behavior – I’ll double check. Right now I have NOTHING on my internal drive – no projects, nor events.

Nope. Just pulled in a QuickTime and some media from a DSLR – both put media where my event is – on an external media drive. Had it copy media over, create transcoded and proxy media.

There’s no FCPX media in my User’s Movies (although there is thumbnails and audio peaks.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Jeremy Garchow]

You must not be adding the new media to your current events or projects, but rather new events.

Please take a screengrab of where they are in your Movies folder, and also of your events browser.

Media follows the event and render files follow the projects.

When you import media, you have a choice in which event and drive to put it on.