[Craig Alan]

over my head … but he did end with this…

“… the solution is to allow third-party extensibility in the new frameworks. I’m not holding out hope that this will happen, and our ultimate goal is to be cross-platform so we’d probably go down the ffmpeg route regardless, however if enough people complain they may at least continue to support some additional codecs in FCPX…”

not sure why he doesn’t think that will take place??? … great opportunity for plugs ins.

Imacs (i7), Canon C300, Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, , FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.

[Craig Alan]

I would assume that third parties will convert the footage to one that FCP X’s future versions will be able to edit.
But for still in use media formats this would be a giant step away from Apple’s updating FCP X to meet the needs of media creators of all levels. Just like I hope that classic films don’t become unavailable or even lost, I hope we can forever bring up old projects and give them new life. You can do a period piece; but you’ll never be from that period again. Will we ever return to artists becoming masters and passing that on to the next gen? Personally I’d love to see a movie from early days, B&W silver emulsion, on a silver screen at the frame rate it was shot in.

Imacs (i7), Canon C300, Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, , FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.

[Craig Alan]

Don’t know how heavy your rig is. I step on a apple box, then grab the top handle, then loosen all 3 legs, then pull up on handle as you watch the bubble on tripod, then tighten the legs then fine tuning whatever leg will get the bubble in the center more or less does the trick. have no idea why the default isn’t to loosen all three legs at once with the ability to mod a single leg. Even better would be a Crank-O-Vator like tripod that once you are level you could crank it to any height. But I agree with other posts, if you remove the camera package you can get the tripod head at the height you want easier. Also mark your different heights that you use often. a lot easier to adjust if you know what what height you need. You do have some give or take using subtle tilts. Also if you have help you can pull the handle up with two hands and have your helper tighten the three legs while you hold position. Look at a monitor off camera to see the height that works.

Imacs (i7), Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, Canon C300, FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.

[Craig Alan]

Hi Catherine,

Bottom line try a clean install of the OS.

I tried the same media card in the same operating system on a different Mac and it read the audio just fine. So my next step is to do a clean install of my operating system. Debating if I want to go to High Sierra or Sierra which I have now. I use office 2018 and I don’t think it will work with High Sierra and all my writing and excel spreadsheets are on that program. So I need to look into that. But I’d like to upgrade because the latest update to FCP X has made significant steps. Think I’ll open some files using Apple’s apps and see if I can live with that and whether it reads my old files well or messes up all the formatting. Too much history to loose it all. Also I’d like to just get work done not spend all my time learning new apps.

Craig

Imacs (i7), Canon 5D Mark IV, Panasonic ENG HPX250P, Canon C300, FCP X, teach video production in L.A., Cool Light Productions, Producing series of multimedia Portraits of creative women in the production arts.

[Craig Alan]

Oliver,
I back up my media cards by dragging the two files that the computer picks up when the p2 card is connected to the computer.

AVC-Intra 100 (1080p30), Linear PCM
FCP X 10.4.
There should be a left and right channels recorded using two different mikes.

FC sees it as four tracks identical. or if stereo 2 identical wave forms.

One of the two mikes is not seen by the iMac and the camera internal mikes are not picked up. Never had this in any other previous version of FCPX. I’m not using high sierra but rather 10.12.6. Does that mean anything?

any advice?

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

AVC-Intra 100 (1080p30), Linear PCM
FCP X 10.4.
There should be a left and right channels recorded (was using two different mikes.

FC sees it as four tracks identical. or if stereo 2 identical wave forms.

One of the two mikes not being picked up and the camera internal mikes are not picked up. Never had this in any other previous version of FCPX. I’m not using high sierra but rather 10.12.6. Does that mean anything?

[Craig Alan]

AVC-Intra 100 (1080p30), Linear PCM
FCP X 10.4.
There should be a left and right channels recorded (was using two different mikes.

FC sees it as four tracks identical. or if stereo 2 identical wave forms.

One of the two mikes not being picked up and the camera internal mikes are not picked up. Never had this in any other previous version of FCPX. I’m not using high sierra but rather 10.12.6. Does that mean anything?

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

It was formatted using SoftRaid. The drives are still good. 6TB Hitachi’s. I called tech support at OWC and the tech said the drive configuration (or something to that effect) got corrupted. All the data was fine but the drive needed to be re-formmated. I’ve tried editing using a single drive and don’t notice any huge difference. Ingestion of short shoots go fast enough. Editing seems fine. Its not like we are using timelines with 20 “tracks” of audio or tons of compounded clips. The drives are not over 80% full. And they are backed.

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

Thanks John,
I went with disc utility and still get monitoring through softraid. I’ll give this a try and see how much speed is lost. Considering we are not doing complex edits or working with touch type editors I think we’ll be fine but ingestion might take longer.

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

John,
What’s the difference between formatting as JBOD and individually formatting each drive. Is it as simple as you can format them all at once. Is there any advantage to using softraid to format them as JBOD vs individually in disc utility? I would still use SoftRaid to monitor the drives health.
Will FCP X be much slower with a single drive if kept to no more than 80% full vs a 4 drive raid?

I just had the raid develop errors that could only be resolved by reformatting the drives and am debating to go with individual drives vs four folders in the raid (I back up to individual drives on a dock using CCC).

Back up drives and raid drives are 6TB each.

Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic HPX250P, FCP X 10.3, teach video production in L.A.