Moving project from fcp7

[Craig Johnson]

My workflow with FCP is a bluray workaround. I edit in APR22, send to compressor, use the HD preset and screw around and have many do-overs attempting to get as much on the blank bluray as possible. Send the assets into Toast v11 I think and burn a non-menu bluray. They play great, look excellent. So far so good.

The not so good. Render issues like mad, and no rational reason. I get out of memory issues all the time and it’s nothing more than an annoying glitch in FCP. Change a jpeg to a png and it works…..why? No one knows, especially Apple. Runtime error 0. No clear cut answer on that. Apple quit us and never kept on with the evolution of their product, which I agree is potentially great. I will never have a good bluray option with FCP, always jumping through hoops. DVD is soon to be the next VHS tape, why pursue a dying media.

I use AE at least once in every project. I can make blurays with far less workaround. PP can ingest about anything without all the transcoding. They still make it and I feel they probably will keep making it and better each time. I use Photoshop on all my stills. It round trips nicely within this suite. The audio tools are better and easier to use. I like you can scrub through a thumbnail in the browser before you dump it on the timeline.

I really don’t look forward to learning all over, it’s just the lack of being able to finish faster, but FCP is failing me.

[Richard Herd]

So you are delivering a Blu Ray? Is that a film festival deliverable? Last time I delivered to film festival, it all went through withoutabox.com and the film festival people wanted an SD DVD. That’s what we sent them, but it seemed weird. That was 2 years ago, so hopefully things have changed, there.

It appears exporting your sequence APR is a good idea. But also export audio OMF, so you can at least get your audio mix as granular as possible, because once that’s in a Premiere sequence, you can edit in Audition, and that really is a very lovely program. Be sure to watch this video:

https://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/sidechaining-in-audition-cs6/

It takes a bit of practice but very much worth the learning curve once you have it down.

[Craig Johnson]

It’s actually a 2 part family documentary. Each BluRay is about 100 minutes. They were amateur photographers with vast amounts of media. One 16mm dated 1939. I had those digitized ProRes 422 in a Spirit. They turned out amazing. They requested among many things, menu’s. I figured out why it wouldn’t render tonight so I am going to make a non-menu version in Compressor and then make a self contained and try dragging it into Media Encoder and Encore just to see how the loss of quality looks.

[Richard Herd]

Did it work?

[Craig Johnson]

Didn’t try yet. We have an out of town emergency going on right now. We are traveling cross country as I type. Be back in a week or so. Thanks for the follow up. I’ll touch base as soon as I finish it. Regards.