[Craig Seeman]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Yeah… and just went on sale, too!! :-D”

$495US. Crazy low price. cDNG and ProResHQ for the price of a Canon Vixia consumer camera.
New Firmware just came out this AM too. Adding to cDNG and ProResHQ is
ProRes, ProResLT, ProResProxy. At LT a 64GB card about 100 minutes.

[Craig Seeman]

Thanks so much for for the confirmation Robin and reporting to Apple. I’ve also reported it to Apple.
Now confirmed on three systems for me.

BMD got back to me again reporting that they’ve now tested on different OSX and FCPX versions and all are showing the issue.

Basically FCPX can’t read properly its own FCArchMetadata.plist specific to the Blackmagic Camera Archives. Unfortunately there’s no way to rebuild this .plist either.

Let’s hope Apple and BMD communicate on this since it’s specific to FCPX Camera Archive and BMD.

[Craig Seeman]

Blackmagic contacted me and they confirmed the issue.
Odd that no one has reported it.
I’d think BM Camera ProRes to FCPX Archive would be somewhat common.

[Craig Seeman]

Also seeing this on another system with FCPX 10.1.1 and OS 10.9.3.
Perplexing!

[Craig Seeman]

For 1280×720 a range of 1500-5000kbps depending on content.
You could start at the low end and do a test encode over a complex section of about two minutes and see how it looks.
Outdoor with tree branches or leaves blowing or water rippling tends to be challenging. Also gradients found in some sky shots can also be a challenge.
On the other hand a reporter doing a stand up against a clear sky would be less challenging.

[Craig Seeman]

Are you going to upload to YouTube or Vimeo for their compression or are you doing the final compression to host it?

Vimeo recommendations
https://vimeo.com/help/compression
YouTube Recommendations
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

Bit rate usually depends on content. Talking heads lower, fast action sports or motion graphics higher.

[Craig Seeman]

Vimeo free accepts up to 500mb.
I guess you’ve used some of your weekly space.

Files Size = Data Rate x Duration.
Having a bit rate calculator will help you do the match.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mediacalc/id463493916?mt=12

[Craig Seeman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “If the job allows (which is rarer and rarer these days) I absolutely love doing paper edits on a big bulletin board”

[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s one of the reasons I like the magnetic timeline and the FCPX browser so much as it comes as close as possible to mirroring that function.”

It seems rarely mentioned here but one of the things I used to do in both FCP legacy and Avid was work in icon mode and move the pics around in the bin.

In FCPX the timeline is the digital bulletin board since it’s easy to reorder things. In that sense it makes editing “subtractively” fairly easy when I’m inclined to go that route.

[Craig Seeman]

[Matt Wiggins] ”
The only thing I wonder about is that the last non beta release of MPEG Streamclip was released back in 2008 – hopefully support of Streamclip hasn’t been completely abandoned and will continue to work flawlessly with future Mac operating systems.”

It’s probably End Of Life (ceased development) because it’s based on Quicktime Frameworks and components and Apple is now using AVFoundation (CoreMedia). It’s the same reason why Perian ceased as did MyComet’s Quicktime x264 component.

[Craig Seeman]

[Blake Porter] “Dumb question: How/where can I see the bitrate after rendering?”

Quicktime Window>Show Movie Inspector
will show you the average bit rate.

[Blake Porter] “Here another question: How can Youtube take my big HD file and play it, high quality, without buffering?”

People can get buffering on YouTube as well. YouTube offers multiple sizes though so the viewer picks what’s appropriate.