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Future MacOS/FCPX won’t support DNxHD/HR or CineForm among other codecs
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I think an easy alternative is to keep an older mac with its older OS that can handle these old projects and if needed later export them in a format that is supported. My guess is that one way of the other they can be brought back to life.
Imacs (i7), Canon C300, Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, , FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.
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This is Avid’s response as it relates to Media Composer and Pro Tools.
https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/The-future-of-Avid-DNx-on-the-Apple-platform
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Thanks Oliver. So it’s just the death of the QT wrapper. That’s fine by me.
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Actually it’s the death of QuickTime and it’s 32 bit libraries.
The QuickTime libraries are dead. Long live … I don’t know … 64 bit yadda yadda
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
Actually it’s the death of QuickTime and it’s 32 bit libraries.”No death, that is not the issue, it’s the rise of the machines.
[Jeremy Garchow] “The QuickTime libraries are dead. Long live … I don’t know … 64 bit yadda yadda”
I do know: Long live the people who praise Newspeak.
(I’m in the resistance btw)Bouke
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Not trying to revive a zombie thread but—I got a request from a client for some work I did in 2013, which would need modification. After some searching, I found the library and files, FCPX gave me the warning about antiquated codecs, brought the library up to date and the project opened and everything was there. If the future versions won’t read these codecs, it would be a big effort to convert things, probably all the links would die and it would be a mess.
Maybe I have to keep that old 27 inch Mac in closet for this. Converting everything to xml and redoing old original files into Prores for this possibility isn’t really practical.
Has Apple told us what will and what won’t work or when this will take place or give warning not to go to the next operating system. In spite of Bill Davis’s proclamations, this is not a good thing. Just sayin’.
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If you have to go xml, then you are better off opening the project in Resolve where the codecs still work. You’ll have to redo grade, mix stuff anyway and might as well use the tools designed for that.
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[Claude Lyneis] “Maybe I have to keep that old 27 inch Mac in closet for this. Converting everything to xml and redoing old original files into Prores for this possibility isn’t really practical”
First, don’t upgrade your OS past 10.13.6. In addition, Avid, Resolve, and Premiere support these codecs just fine. Will FCPX allow you to transcode these into optimized (ProRes) media, or does it see these as already optimized?
Lastly, make sure you export a textless, split-track master for future use.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Oliver:
Thanks for the info. Just for a test I used my current setup Mojave 10.14.2 and FCPX 10.4.5 and my old Sony HDV 1080i Camcorder and used FCPX to reimport some footage from 2006. The Quicktime inspector opens the imported files (.mov) and lists them as Mpeg-2 1440-1080 at 29.97 fps. FCPX imported it without a hitch, recognized the camera, and was able to edit the files. The warning about codecs did not appear.So, the hardest part was to find a way to cable from the oldest firewire to a USB-c port.
At least for the near term, I will leave by old 27 inch in the closet with an old system on it. The rest is too complicated to worry about.
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