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There have been some very minor bugs pointed out on the Apple FCP user forum. But mostly just resetting pref files fixes them. It’s a very safe upgrade for my studio.
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Unfortunately, you can’t create keywords from the Project timeline. You can select a clip, Shift+F to highlight the original in the Browser, then keyword there. But that’s an FCP limit Apple has imposed upon us.
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May folks mistakenly use a TV as a broadcast monitor. A real broadcast monitor shows the raw image. All TVs, without exception, use some type of automatic filtering and adjustment to make the image look best on that manufacture’s hardware. Go into any big box store that has a wall of TVs running. Notice the wide variation in coloring on each screen.
You can use a TV, you can make your images look great, but it’s no better than a computer monitor. Other TVs may show the image with altered grading results. But alas, lots of folks do it.
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Video codecs do not affect the audio. That’s going to stay the same no matter what video codec you choose.
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Video codecs won’t affect audio quality at all. Audio will stay the same.
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Never heard of this issue before. Glad it works for you now.
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Copying existing files to ExFat to go to Windows is fine. But don’t use ExFat with a Mac app to to actual work. Especially FCP. Over and over and over we see major issues eventually pop up. Apple doesn’t officially support it, either.
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Do you mean for sill images and for audio files? Still images should not be much larger than the frame size of the Project they’re being used in. The exception is if you plan to enlarge them to zoom in on them, then make them a bit larger. For a 1080 timeline, 4K should be fine for a still image. And at 75dpi.
As for audio files, depends how you get them. What format are they in? What bit-rate, what sample rate? Converting an audio (or video) file to a better codec doesn’t make them better.
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Take this to the DP and ask what his damage is. No professional DP would give you proxies and originals with different timecodes. And was there any realistic need for proxies in the first place? You should have gotten both at the same time, as a professional. It’s not your problem, it’s the DP’s problem to fix.
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So you’re taking FCP Libraries to a Windows PC? I don’t think so. And no, there’s no really compatible format to go between Final Cut Pro and a Windows PC.