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Footage import bypass camera archive
I like to keep all camera media outside of the project Library and have FCPX make proxies for me inside the library upon import.
The purpose being I can take my Library on an external and have a small offline project to take ‘on the road’, as in this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN-ArQnHQTc
My only issue is; say I’ve ingested the footage from the camera media to an external drive already, I use the import window and direct FCPX to its location, but one it recognises the file/folder structure of a camera it assumes I’m adding from the original camera media, and as such, greys out the ‘leave in place’ making me import the original footage into the Library.
Any way of avoiding this? besides changing my preferences beforehand and dragging from finder.
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[Luke Ogden] “but one it recognises the file/folder structure of a camera it assumes I’m adding from the original camera media, and as such, greys out the ‘leave in place’ making me import the original footage into the Library. “
I’m curious about that, too. It seems that all MXF and AVC media (from various camera models) all want to be copied into the library without other options. So if you’ve copied the camera card with its entire structure to your hard drive, you effectively have to copy it again to get into FCPX.
If Adobe has this figured out, why not Apple?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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‘Break’ the folder structure temporarily.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “‘Break’ the folder structure temporarily.”
That works for the MXF C300 stuff. Not for any AVC media, like from the Sony DSLRs.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
It works for XAVC, Simply remove the :CLIPS: folder out of the structure. It works for any card structure, really.
You can also move the import plugins from the FCPX package, launch FCPX and when you navigate to the folder within the import window, the MXF files show up and “Leave in place” is available.
Looks like this:
You can even write an Automator script to move the import plugins in and out of the package.
Tread lightly.
Jeremy
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I always drag directly from the finder into X and it always leaves in place. I never tweak the folder structure. Does that not work for this flavor of avc?
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Me too, but he said he didn’t want to drag and drop?
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[Bret Williams] “Does that not work for this flavor of avc”
Nope. It says “no importable files” when I try that.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
What codec?
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In the case of the MXF – that could be moved out of the folder and imported. That was XF from a C300.
In the case of the AVC clips – two different examples. One from a Panasonic consumer HD video camera. The other is from a Sony A7S. Both are H.264 wrapped in an AVC container. When you try to open the clip using “show package contents” you can only get one level down but not the actual video clip. However, after imported into FCPX, the video is stripped out of the package and it revealed as Clip #1.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
[Oliver Peters] “However, after imported into FCPX, the video is stripped out of the package and it revealed as Clip #1.”
FWIW – this is a rewrapped 25Mbps H.264 QuickTime file after the copy function. You can move it out of the package and then it will import “normally” using the “leave in place” setting. So probably the file format requires rewrapping, hence the limitation that makes “copy” the only option.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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