Finally. Native AVC-I in FCP 7!

[Michael Sacci]

Question for clarification,
“Native AVC-Intra playback for both AVC-Intra 100 and AVC-Intra 50” does that mean you what set your sequence to render to something like ProRes or if/when you export a movie you will have to transcode it, much like you do with R3D clips?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Sacci] “Question for clarification, “

Yep. It’s a decoder only. Still you can bring in native AVC-I, it’s a huge step in the right direction.

[John Sutherland]

So we will still need MXF4mac to access all the metadata and avoid the QuickTime wrapping process?

John Sutherland
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Sutherland] “So we will still need MXF4mac to access all the metadata and avoid the QuickTime wrapping process? “

Yes. It looks like FCP7 supports more metadata options, but who knows how excatly it will be implemented. For native editing (and no log and transfer/rewrapping) you will still need MXF4mac.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

[Michael Sacci] “does that mean you what set your sequence to render to something like ProRes or if/when you export a movie you will have to transcode it, much like you do with R3D clips? “

I don’t get what you mean? FCP 7 imports AVCIntra in the AVCIntra codec…a new codec. And you can edit on an AVCIntra timeline. ProRes not needed.

Shane

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[Steve Eisen]

This section covers it all.
https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/professionalformatsandworkflows/#chapter=7%26section=6

The whole document is very useful. It still needs to be completely updated.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Michael Sacci]

Jeremy answered it, you still have to set the Compress to something other than AVC-I because you can never render anything to that because it is an playback only codec.

I just wanted to make sure I was reading it correctly.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes. AVC-I is a decoder only. You cannot compress to AVC-I, but Fcp will decode and play in RT. You will render to ProRes HQ.

[Bjoern Adamski]

We release v1.6 of our importer this Monday with full support for FCP7 and the new AVC-Intra codecs.

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MXF4mac
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[Bjoern Adamski]

It will stay AVC-Intra as long as you don’t render anything. Also export to AVC-Intra is currently not possible due to the missing encoding capabilities.

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MXF4mac
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