[David Mayer]

thanks again Bill, Patrice and Joe for the excellent advice

[David Mayer]

that’s a lot for free – thanks

[David Mayer]

man – this is so helpful – follow up if you don’t mind – the EDL backups or whatever they are actually called – NDL? – are stored by default in my Movies folder. If I open one of these a year later and have ALL of the media and resources, will i actually be able to rebuild the project fully?

[David Mayer]

Joe,

OK. Currently importing 30 min. of 4K footage. DJI drone quicktime files. With optimized and proxy both checked during import, transcoding and analysis takes forever. With proxy only checked, it is now going much faster. (So I can start editing sooner) This time I am trying H264 at 25%, also. In the 2 scenarios above, is the Master File or other high quality file that I export when the project is finished the same quality or different? Is the exported file optimized Pro Res media when optimized is checked during Import and not optimized or lower quality when optimize is not checked during import? Thanks again.

[David Mayer]

Joe,

Incredibly helpful answer – thank you. I just set my import prefs to H264 at 50% – reloading the project. My Mac is 5 years old and this should really help. You suggested sending full rez media on a hard drive – did not understand doing that and then collaborating with 25% proxies. Oh – now I think I see. I was thinking send the editor 25% proxies because they will fit under the 20GB we transfer limit. But then he can’t output full rez optimized exports. But couldn’t he send me the EDL and I could do the final full rez export? In other words, can I use proxy as a way of compressing or zipping files to send to my editor? Final question for now is can I choose to export as proxy or export as full rez or will final cut always default to export as full rez?

[David Mayer]

finally got the chunky arrow thing to appear
then your idea worked perfectly
thanks a million
so relieved
dave

iMac (Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.12.5
Final Cut Pro X (10.2.3)
Canon C100
Sony FS-5
Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D (Blu-ray)

[David Mayer]

thanks for the patience, man
i am just missin something
i see an x in the middle of the viewer
right click it (control click) and i get a dropdown:
transform
crop
distort
none

When i choose ken burns i can get a drop down that
is close to what i want, but i don’t want ken burns
the dropdown is:
Ease in and Out
Ease in
Ease out
Linear

iMac (Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.12.5
Final Cut Pro X (10.2.3)
Canon C100
Sony FS-5
Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D (Blu-ray)

[David Mayer]

So default is Bezier and I can switch to linear – excellent. Any way to reset default to linear?

Also, how exactly do I find the keyframe in the viewer? I turned on Transform. At the top left there are 3 small boxes: go to previous keyframe, delete keyframe, go to next keyframe – but I don’t think you mean that.

Thanks again.

iMac (Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.12.5
Final Cut Pro X (10.2.3)
Canon C100
Sony FS-5
Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D (Blu-ray)

[David Mayer]

Specifically I need to add bullet points on screen, with
animation. Is there a different term for this type of plugin?
The “titles” plugins are really for titles and hard to adapt.

iMac (Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.12.5
Final Cut Pro X (10.2.3)
Canon C100
Sony FS-5
Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D (Blu-ray)

[David Mayer]

i got mTitle mini pack from MotionVFX.com

ever use this?

frustrating – does not seem like you can customize the
graphic elements or animation – even the size of them – you only
have control over the fonts and font size

unless i am missing something…

iMac (Retina 5K, 27 inch, Late 2015)
4 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
OS X 10.11.6
Final Cut Pro X (10.2.3)
Canon C100
Sony FS-5
Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D (Blu-ray)