Bret Williams
Forum Replies Created
-
For web delivery 4K is doing very well for my last couple projects where delivery is 720p. Enables me to reframe up to 300% for a pixel to pixel ratio. Sure it helps cut up an interview, but it also allows broll to be stretched 2-3 times as far, or give you 2-3 times as many choices for cutting a scene together.
I see it as less useful for 4K broadcast where you lose the opportunity to reframe. In 1080p broadcast it’s very useful for reframing run and gun news or interviews,
Takes me back to that brief period where we were editing anamorphic SD for DVD, but everyone had started shooting HD.
-
In the destinations window right click on your setting and choose “make default”
-
Not sure about the render issues, but compound clips don’t exist on the finder so it should be greyed out.
-
Export as ProRes 422 or 422HQ as your master file. Then use that in compressor to create h264 to upload. Or upload the ProRes. But a full quality h264 looks pretty darn good. Uploading a ProRes can take awhile…
-
My 2006 MacPro edits pro res just fine. It’s more about the drive speed and the res. Talking SD? HD? 4K? Editing pro res on an older computer is much easier than h264 with 1/8 the data rate.
-
Well true but that’s not what I’m saying. If you have a library that all the files are internally managed and you duplicate all those files into another library on the same drive, it takes absolutely no more space. Anything copies between libraries on the same drive don’t take up any more space. It creates hard links, not symlinks. Multiple files using the same data. The data is not released(deleted) until all instances of the hard links are trashed.
-
As well, if you were to duplicate an entire library on the same drive, from within X (not in the finder) it will appear that it has instantly duplicated all your media. However, through some sum link magic, there are duplicate files in the finder as a result, but they occupy the same data space in the space time continuum.
IOW, inside FCP X you can highlight all the files/media in your library and choose to “copy to new library” and then choose consolidate into the library when you’re done and all the media will be in the new library AND the old library and won’t occupy any more space.
Just for fun I copied an entire 500 gig library to a new library. Some of the files were managed (about 250 gigs) some were external (500gigs). The new library had 250 gigs. Then I consolidated the rest of the files into the new library so it was a solid 750gigs. The available space on my raid remained as 4.3TB the entire time. Although, logically you’d think it’d have gone down to 3.6 gigs. The files (not aliases) now exist in 2 places. Inside the original library (and some outside) and also completely inside the second library. The whole 750 gig library copied/consolidated in a matter of seconds instead of 20 min that 750gigs would normally take.
Soooo… long story short, to answer your question about copying files between libraries without copying the file is that it doesn’t matter. The file does get copied, yes. It makes it idiot proof that you won’t delete one library and knock another libraries files offline. BUT it doesn’t matter because as long as the files live on the same drive, the duplicate file(s) take up zero additional space (maybe a couple K or something just for the name of the file).
-
He likely created a new “title” instead of a project, so there’s no “save as.” If so, you can always go to the motion templates folder and copy the project to an external.
-
Have you read the thread below this one? Sounds like some similar issues.