Claude Lyneis
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I have been using a Canon XA10 for about 2 years and use it with FCPX. I mainly film sports (lacrosse) with it and find it works very well. It has good low light capability and can be controlled manually using the LCD touch screen. Here is a link to a video shot with it.
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Can’t wait for Snow Manchurian Tiger to show up.
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I think it may be the interaction with Compressor and Motion. I have a very short graphic, less than 10 seconds long created in Motion and when I compress it it adds almost 30 minutes to the total compression time of my videos. This is on a 2011 27 inch iMac with 8 GB of memory and 3.1 GHz Core i5.
I am not sure why the Motion compresses so slowly while the rest of the video which is 1920 by 1080 H.264 goes very fast. I think I saw a comment at one time about Motion projects and Compressor.
Since I use the graphic in front of my short films I guess the answer to to Compress once and then use the compressed output rather than the Motion file.
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I am not sure what you mean by watching HD Preview on a 27 inch Imac. Are you referring to viewing FCPX project in HD on the Mac or something else. With an Apple TV box connected to an LED tv you can view FCPX generated movies in 720 P and maybe 1080 P, but I suspect you are asking something else.
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I put both my events and projects on the same external hard drive, then back that up when necessary and remove the backup hard drive before using FCPX. I have no events or project folders on the internal drive. This way, I never have FCPX find duplicates. My early learning period before I reorganized was full of these kinds of problems.
I like how FCPX can access an event file that has been duplicated and moved and doesn’t require any relinking. That is a big improvement on FCP7.
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I found clear instruction on the Youtube site about what works. I found the compressor suggested Youtube settings was missing fast start, but you can duplicate those settings and then alter and save them to get fast start. I also set the bit rate max to 20,000 kbits/s so that 6 minutes is about 1 GB. I use the 720 P general settings for Youtube, because it plays on more systems without stalling. In the end, it seems to play well on Youtube, until they make the next change. However, if the customers don’t have the latest Flash loaded in the browser, it may not play on their browser. I like Vimeo better, but there are far fewer viewers.
I agree that Youtube could provide better guidance and a web search will generate much conflicting advice.
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1000 MB/sec is impressive. I downloaded Disk Speed Test and now I am depressed. My fastest external is a Firewire 800 that clocks in at write 66 MB/s and read at 43 MB/s. Anyway Disk Speed Test is a great App.
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I use Superduper to back up my external drive where the event and project files are stored. The backup disk then can be accessed by FCPX just in the same way as the original. I generally don’t open FCPX with the original and backup both on line just so things don’t get confused. Anyway, it works well that way.
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In FCPX preferences (import) you have choices of creating optimized media and or proxy media. The proxy media is used for playback while editing. The XH A1 use mini DV so it must need decoding. I have an XA10, but it uses 24 MB/s AVCHD and I don’t need either proxy or decoding. I agree with the comment above, you probably need to go to Apple Pro Res.
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Why not select the event in FCPX, go to file and use Duplicate the Event. A box comes up and you can name it whatever you like. Now the question is, if you then delete the original, do all the files remain? I haven’t test that.