Video mixdown

[Chris Poisson]

What do you mean by a video mixdown? Never heard of that. Audio mixdown is under sequence>render all>mixdown.

Have a wonderful day.

[Rogelio Cordovez]

I think is more of a Avid term. Sorry. I mean video mixdown as of getting all the video tracks and mixing them to one (is this possible in FCP). What I want in the end is making all video tracks into one, maybe by making them a clip?

Thanks

[Debe]

Select the segment with in and out points. Export it out and reimport it back in.

There’s no direct function like Video Mixdown in FCP.

debe

[Jeff Carpenter]

If you’re trying to do the mixdown in order to apply an effect (like brightness to the whole project) then you can use nesting. Make a new sequence and just drag the old sequence onto the new timeline. You’ll get one clip that you can apply effects to.

But if you’re trying to mixdown for the purposes of getting smoother playback then, no, this won’t solve that. Exporting and re-importing is the way to go for that reason.

[Rogelio Cordovez]

Thanks, it worked, I duplicate the sequence, highlighted and nestled it with audio mixdown, I got just what I wanted. Thanks for you input, I really appreciate it.

Rogelio

[Rogelio Cordovez]

Thanks Chris, thanks debe for your quick responses.

[Doug Bassett]

When you nest sequences like this, all audio automatically converts to a stereo pair so there is no need to do an audio mix down.

[Rogelio Cordovez]

Got it. Thanks.

[Jeff Carpenter]

Doug…doesn’t a nested sequence simply refer to the orginal media? There’s nothing new created. An audio mixdown creates a new audio track which can help avoid hang-ups and dropped frames when playing back to tape.

Given this, I’m not sure that there’s no need to do an audio mixdown. Even if you are nesting I think it can still have extra benefits.

[Doug Bassett]

Correct, I always mixdown audio prior to tape. I was just talking about nesting for the sake of effects and time in the original question…. I think…?