Optimize media and Alpha

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ricky Dominguez] “If I have a clip that have alpha and I want to optimize then the alpha is gone, because the optimize is ProRes 422. They should give us the option to optimize to different ProRes resolution.”

FCPX will not optimize ProRes media. You can create proxy media of it (which won’t have an alpha) but if you are creating optimized media, FCPX will ignore a ProRes444 Alpha movie. If the movie is not ProRes 444, then you can make one from the original.

All ProRes should carry an alpha channel if you ask me. It would be very nice.

Jeremy

[Tom Wolsky]

If the video has an alpha channel it’s already optimized. How are or why you optimizing it?

All the best,

Tom

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[Ricky Dominguez]

Tom it is a graphic from another company created in After Effect and they give me the quicktime uncompress. I see a big diference when I work with optimize media if I work with many layer and the render is much much faster. It would be nice to have option to optimize to different ProRes or that it understan that it is a clip with alpha so when I optimize it’s preserve the alpha.

Maybe in a feature update.

Thanks Jeremy and Tom for the replay.

Ricky Dominguez

[Tom Wolsky]

You can’t optimize uncompressed media. It is already optimized. Convert it to ProRes 4444 as Jeremy said before you import it. Anything with an alpha channel is going to be a big file and will require a lot of processing.

All the best,

Tom

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[Jacob Lanum]

When you change the render codec to prores 4444 does it not optimise to 4444?

[Tom Wolsky]

No. It only change the render material.

All the best,

Tom

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“Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”