IMX four channels audio export

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Thank you Jeremy.
It doesn’t seem to work. I modified the export setting as you suggested and tried to first export the FCPX timeline and then a ProRes file with the four tracks, but both the compressed files show a stereo pair.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Assign the two audio Roles in the Project (assuming two stero pairs), export a multitrack audio QT, setup each audio Role as stereo on export.

This will give you a 4 track export of two stereo pairs.

Import that to compressor with pass through.

You can check this by importing to FCPX and it should show “two stereo” which you can change to four mono.

Jeremy

[T. Payton]

Fabrizio,

I plead my ignorance, how did you export IMX out of Compressor? Also where is the IMX preset in FCP?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jeremy Garchow]

You have to make your own, and it’s .mov not MXF.

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Thank you Jeremy, it works fine!

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Yes, you have to make your own.
You have to build a new custom preset, then, into the inspector window, under the “encoder” tab, open the “settings” window after “video”, and choose the MPEG IMX you need.
IN FCPX, the IMX settings appears as an export option if you placed an IMX clip on the timeline as the first clip, this making the project IMX (I couldn’t do it from the presets).
Regards

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[T. Payton]

Ahh I see your conundrum now. The compressor pass thought is a good workaround. Interesting. I still can’t get the IMX codec option to show up in FCP X.

I would absolutely report this as a request to Apple. https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Fabrizio D'Agnano] “Thank you Jeremy, it works fine!”

Excellent.

Hopefully we can get direct MXF export options soon!

Jeremy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

I tried again and it works for me. It works if you choose a SD 720×576 (PAL in my case) setting for your project. The if you put HD clips on the timeline and choose “share”, export media” the IMX settings will appear among the video codecs. It seems to me, given I am not an expert so far and maybe I am missing something or have not completely understood the workflow, that projects and export settings are limited outside compressor.

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Also, the codec is called “MPEG IMX”, T Payton so maybe it’s not where you expect it?

See here:

mpeg_imx.png

Jeremy