I’m trying to export a final sequence.

I’m getting very limited settings, no ‘same as source’ or option for Pro res for example.

I’m using an M1 Mac MC 24.10.0

Any advice would be great.

Ty

Thanks Mads.

I’m using a Mac Studio 1 and am looking for an external drive.

I was thinking about cutting full Rez video, Sony A7 Mk 3 video clips.

We’ve gone for HD to lighten the load.

Thanks again for the help.

Dan

Can anyone recommend a SSD external drive to use with Media Composer?

I haven’t used them before and am unsure of what to look for.

Ty in advance

Dan

Thanks for the reply Devrim.

Can I ask if you think it’s worth getting the M2 or do you think the M1 would do the job. know it’s always best to get more initially, I just wondered if you felt it was more future proof.,

Thanks very much Mads, that is very helpful indeed. I think I’ll go with that, I use MC with a PC at work, but trust Macs more in general.

Thanks again for your reply,

Dan

I need to upgrade my Mac dustbin as it’s starting to play up, lagging and constantly quitting out of Media Composer. I’m looking at the MAC STUDIO M1 MAX 10-CORE (2022) can I ask if anyone here would recommend this? I’d love to buy a new Mac tower, but I don’t have the budget for it. I’m going to be remote editing, remotely in to a suite, as…

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Hi Guys,

I can’t seem to find any dicussions about the best exort settings for social media.

I have finished a few short films and would like to put them up onto Facebook and Instagram

Can anyone please advise me on the best settings?

Ty in advance for any help.

Dan.

Thanks for the reply Mads.

No I do not have other footage I am cutting with, this is a personal project that I am cutting at home.

I have managed to sort of make it look ok, but it’s definately not as good as solving the incompatible codec issue.

Thanks again for the follow up.

Dan.

Thanks again Mads for the reply and the link to a tutorial. I followed the info and although it’s close to solving the problem, it falls short of correcting the colour issue and still requires some quite tricky colour correction after ingest. And as it’s iPhone footage it doesn’t have the colour range to cope. I’m going to work with the resolve…

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Thanks for the reply Mads.

It does go towards solving part of the problem.

When adjusted in Resolve, the colour is improved a bit, but it still looks incorrect, like the gamma is skewed somehow. It feels like my Mac may need a plug in or something to make sense of the IPhone footage. Also the exported clips from Resolve are absolutely huge, 500gig +…

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Hello.

I have some Iphone footage shot in an Iphone 13 Pro.

The codec it was shot on is AAC, Timed Metadata, HEVC.

I am having trouble ingesting into Media Composer 2023.12.0 on my MAC Dustbin, 12.6 Monterey.

The footage looks perfect on the drive, but everything I try ends up wuth the footage looking washed out and incorrect.

I have tried converting…

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Hi Glenn.

I used your YouTube clip and managed to import into resolve export to Avid. Ty very much for the help, it worked perfectly! Much appreciated.

Thanks very much for this Glenn, I’m going to download Resolve and try this route.

Thanks again,

Dan

Thanks very much for your reply Glenn.

Can I ask what you would convert the footage to?

Pro res or similar?

Also, I don’t have resolve, could I convert the footage in a plug in?

Like Wondershare?

Thanks again,

Dan.

Hello,

I’m doing a project where the camera man has the option to shoot on Red Camera. Can I ask you guys if this is compatible with my Media Composer? I’m using the latest MC version, on a dustbin Mac, OS Monterey.

I’m happy to convert footage as it’s only a days worth of filming, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Ty, Dan

From camera man,

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Thanks for the reply Christian.

I have actually solved it, I didn’t have enough space on my hard drive!

I feel very foolish but I thought I’d better fess up.

Cheers,

Dan.

Hello.

I am trying to ingest some clips into Media Composer.

The files I received are MP4’s. I have been converting them in Wondershare converter to MOVS.

I have tried XVID, AVI and H.264 but when I try and import them nothing happens, I try and ama link them but the CONSOLODATE button is grayed out.

What is odd, is that I have succesfully ingested 4…

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Please ignore this post, it has now been resolved.

It was simply a mic input error with the hardware.

Can’t record the final com.

Please can anyone help me with this.

I have just finished an edit, am very happy with it, but am unable to record the final com.

I have the mic going into the Mac ok, I can hear it coming out of the speakers, MC sees the sound card, but it isn’t getting through to the Media composer. I have been through all the settings…

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Thanks for the reply Pat, much appreciated.

I think you meant to say should ‘not’ need a LUT.

That’s good news as it does look pretty good ingested at rec709.

I jusy wanted to be sure it’s the best it could be, which it seems it is.

Thanks again for the reply.

Dan.

Using Shutter Encoder, I have managed to convert my iphone 13 footage into pro res, I used colour space 709 when converting the footage. I can AMA link it and succesfully transcoded it into my project.

Can anyone advise me on the LUT I should use on the clips?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I am trying to import some i phone footage from a iphone 13 Pro Max running iOS 15.4.1

Into my Media Composer, 2021.5

Can anyone tell me the best step by step way to do this?

I have tried using a converter, EaseFab Video converter and can succesfully convert to Pro Res 422 HD and it looks ok, but is this the best way to convert the footage?

If I try…

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Sorry for this late reply!

Thanks for the advice, I see what you mean about the new title tool, it’s really buggy isn’t it?

I not too impressed with the quality either, I’ve been doing them in photoshop instead.

Dan

Thanks for the reply Per.

Bit late I know!

Dan

I have some interview footage shot on a Panasonic S1H

Can anyone please me how to get a Panasonic V-Log LUT into Media Composer?

I am on a Mac dustbin 10.13.6 High Sierra <font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Media </font>Composer<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>…

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Thanks very much for the reply.

It’s quite a new release, do you know of any teething problems?

Can anyone please tell me the best version of Media Composer to download to use with a Mac Dustbin and High Sierra?

Ty in advance.