David Battistella
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It sound like you have mismatched settings between your timeline and source footage. Check to modify your sequence settings so that they match the frame size and frame rate of the original media.
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My personal experience has not been good with Catalina or 10.4.9. After upgrading both I was unable to see .r3d footage in the viewer and none of the new proxy options worked.
I had to roll my machine back to Mojave and 10.4.8 in order to get things correct and I also had to recreate one library I had “upgraded” to work with 10.4.9.
Buggy. Buggy. Buggy. has been my personal experience thus far, which I must say is not at all the norm.
My advice is wait – unless you are starting from scratch on a brand new Mac.
David
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Great Tip Oliver.
I have also used WORX4X and it is great (as is there pro audio tool)
Seems that 10.4.9 has a whole new Under the hood media management that I will be testing in the coming weeks.
David
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Try also saving it as a custom workspace as well. Just as a backup.
The workspace my retain the column info information.
Cheers,
David
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Just drag shots, media, images, titles or whatever you want and the “tracks” appear. If you want a more traditional looking “timeline” you can use ROLES and LANES to have things stay in specific places. IE: you could create ROLES called V1 V2 V3 but then media in each one of those lanes would have to be tagged with that ROLE.
The best thing to do with FCP X is dive in, forget about the way you have done things in other apps and feel the fluidity of the interface, it really makes the process of editing much simpler and even pleasurable.
David
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If you are going to Protools for the Audio then you are going to want to pick up X2PRO Audio Convert to get the audio from your FCPX XML file and convert it to an AAF file for import into protools.
David
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It’s also not clear to me either. You want H.264 to llok like uncompressed footage? H.264 is a lossy codec. When you reduce a the filesize you have to get rid of DATA. One thing you can do is experiment with your COMPRESSOR settings to make adjustments but it’s quite normal for a compressor like H.264 to reduce the quality because it needs to compress data to do so.
There are a million workflows, one I have used often is to only export prores 4444 out of a project file and then use handbrake or compressor to compress the file.
Many factors come into compression and it can change on a shot for shot basis. The H264 from the FCPX project is a blanket compression which maybe does not do multiple passes, etc.
Compression is a very tricky game.
David
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Where is your backup?
Where were you storing your media?
What version are you running?
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The most recent version of FCP x is 10.2.2
It is best to keep backups of project files or run regular backups to internal drives. The best way to avoid these kinds of problems is to keep multiple copies on different forms of media.
It’s a drag, but you only have to get burned once, with important client work on the line to understand that the best way to eliminate risk is to minimise it.
The way to do that is to be extra vigilant in your backup scheme.
David
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I think he very best int he world is Annotation Edit. It does one thing, subtitling, for every form of media and it does it better than anyone in my opinion.
David
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