[Brian Kaempen]

I just realized that the standard definition Quicktimes are missing, and this really irks me. Again a time when Apple decides that something is dead prematurely. I need to make my XDCAM movies into Standard Def files for my client to edit with, and I needed to go back to Compressor 3.5, which is about 4 hours in so far. I tried Squeeze, and didn’t see an SD NTSC preset there, so I gave up on that quickly. Why couldn’t Apple have included the same presets just buried them like they were in 3.5?

[Brian Kaempen]

Neil, if I’m understanding you correctly, you suggest to select one of my clips in my multiclip storyline and select “Reveal in Event Browser”. Then from there, double click to open it and edit the audio there. If so, that doesn’t work. It opens up the Angle Editor, which won’t let me separate the audio tracks there either. I need to be able to manipulate the two tracks from my EX1 independently. In fact, I already tried what you suggested and picked the lesser of two evils and just turned off the track I wanted quieted in the Angle Editor from the Audio section of the Inspector. So in my Angle Editor, only my best audio track plays back, but that did in fact NOT carry back over to my multicam storyline.

[Brian Kaempen]

You and me both Mark and Oliver. I just posted this over at the Apple forums:

Hello all,

I’ve been very forgiving of FCP X since I saw it premiere live at NAB last year, and I’ve used it for a non-professional project, but now I’m trying to get it to work for a paying gig. I had some hickups with multicam, but I got that down now. I’ve got my edit, but my main angle had a direct audio feed plus a shotgun for ambient noise. I’m trying to separate the audio track so that I can mute or at least jsut turn down my shotgun, yet that option is greyed out. It’s also greyed out in the Angle Editor. I can turn off the shotgun’s track in the Info pane, but when I do that in the Angle Editor, that change doesn’t carry over to my multicam timeline. If I select the already edited clip in my Multiclip timeline, er, Storyline, it says “Unsuported Clip” under the Channel Configuration option. I jsut want to be able to edit and work with my two mono audio tracks individually. I have all the video already edited.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
-Brian

I’ll let you know if/when I get a response.

[Brian Kaempen]

The reason why I’m exporting in Animation is twofold. For one, I heard, maybe heard wrong, that Animation is the Codec to use when applying basic motion which is what my entire video is comprised of. The second reason, was after exporting a standard NTSC file, it looked blurry but after making an Animation file, it was crystal clear. Yes the files are huge, 7.12GB for 5:15:17, but they just SO CLEAR, and that’s all I’m putting on the DVD, so if I fil the dvd with one file, I couldn’t care less. I didn’t think about the color space, but am re-rendering the whole video in RGB and I’ll se if that does anything. If it messes up the still but the transitions come out fine, then I’ll need to find another solution. TO Chris: Unfortunately I’m still just on FCP 5.1.4 so I don’t have access to ProRes, but also isn’t that just good for high def? I’m working with a standard NTSC sequence, and have absolutely no need to go HD with this video (my grandma can barely operate her computer, so I don’t think HD will ever enter her picture).

Thanks a lot so far, I’ll try these couple things and report back,
-Brian