[Brian Thomas]

Ah ha! Everything around the three places where I’ve used that effect seems to have been ‘shared’ OK despite the message.

What is more strange is that Jeremy’s advice to identify the problem area results in every single clip being bad news. BUT, the ‘Master file (default)’ seems just fine. It was my first full-length project using FCPX and maybe I did something weird when creating the multicam project. I’m not going to pursue it further – I’ll see how the current, larger project goes while regularly attempting to ‘Share’ it.

Thanks for your advice guys!

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

Neat, thanks! I might even try first half, if problem, then first quarter and so on narrowing it down the other way. Could be lucky early on either way. Many thanks for the idea.

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

Sorry, here’s that line again with the less than/greater than characters changed to open/close brackets. (the line got suppressed when I tried to post it earlier)

(effect id=”r12″ name=”Pixie Dust” uid=”…/Titles.localized/Build In:Out.localized/Pixie Dust.localized/Pixie Dust.moti”/)

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

I much appreciate your suggestions and I’ve learned some new things in the process but this is a bit strange.. No exclamation marks anywhere in the Timeline Index for that project, and only the line below containing the character string “localized” in the XML:

On top of that I haven’t used Motion anywhere near this whole Library.

Do you think there might be somewhere else I could look? The exported mov looks OK but maybe there is something lurking in there…

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

It makes perfect sense, thanks. So I started from scratch and reimported everything, created my multicam clip and found that the fcpbundle had gone up to about a terabyte for just one performance! Over night I remembered seeing a parameter somewhere which said something about “creating optimised media for multicam clips”, found it in the Preferences, reimported yet again and now the fcpbundle is ‘only’ 187GB so I should be OK to have several performances on the one convenient 4TB drive.

I really appreciate all your help Jeremy – I’ll be back! 🙂

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

I tried with just the original media and that was a bit jumpy and so I created the proxy files ONLY and that works incredibly well! And thanks for the tip about switching back to the original media before doing any ‘Shares’. My first ‘Share’ was still on proxy media and that was a bit of a shock!

I can’t think who told me/where I read that I always had to have Optimized media as well as Proxy but now I know – MANY thanks Jeremy.

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

OK but I thought that with multicam projects based on AVCHD I was obliged to have both optimised and proxy files, no?

So could I do a multicam project with ONLY proxy files?

Just a bit of background in case it’s relevant: the eventual output will be a) DVDs and b) an HD ‘master’ for subsequent editing/archiving.

Soon it will be decided which individual performance will be the basis for the whole multicam project. Inevitably even in that performance there will be things that went gone wrong and for those moments I will switch to another multicam performance where it did go right.

My motto is “giving them the show they always wanted but never actually managed to achieve.”

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

Just to let you know what I ended up doing: Encore has a wealth of menu templates, buttons and everything else that a DVD producer could possibly need. I’ve been concentrating too much on video editing (Premiere Pro and now FCPX) and not delved into the endless possibilities available already within Encore by simply mixing and matching. Now I’m taking a template, mixing up different button styles depending on their functions and then adding video and my own soundtrack to run discretely (or otherwise) in the background. It’s a very versatile product without my having to go too deep into it 🙂

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

AVCHD.

The more I think about it perhaps, I’m thinking, two or more Libraries would be the answer. I’d like to try it but we’ve got guests for lunch and I can’t get away for more than a message!

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland

[Brian Thomas]

Many thanks Jeremy – very useful link.

FCPX and PPro 6. iMac 24 + MBP 17″. Near Geneva, Switzerland