Dennis Widmyer
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Hi Andy,
Yeah, I have ‘Use Proxy Media’ selected for my Playback Preferences. But I think you’re right: I think this particular scene (as well as others) wasn’t transcoded upon Import. We had an assistant editor start bringing all the footage in, back while I was still directing the film. And I’m not sure that every file was properly transcoded. Here’s why I think this: Some scenes have clips that will let me right click them and ‘Reveal in Finder,’ in which case, it points me to the Proxy Files folder. But other files won’t give me that option. It too, is dithered out– which tells me it’s because there IS now Proxy of said file.
If that’s the case, should I reimport these clips and transcode them as Proxies on import? It’s weird that it won’t give me the option to create Proxies out of them once they’re in the Event. The only option they’re giving me is to Create Optimized Media.
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Hey Andy,
The only option I’m getting when I right click the clips and select ‘Transcode Media’ is to create ‘Optimized Media.’ The ‘Proxy Media’ option is dithered out.
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Hey Andy,
Yeah, I think you nailed it. Yes, it’s Red footage (in 5K project). I have it set to use ProRes for Playback. But I didn’t create Optimized Media upon importing it. So that must be what’s stressing it– particularly because there’s so many damn shots and edits in this sequence.
How would I use Optimized Media for just one Project? (and not the entire Event?)
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Indeed, I just find it easier to control the length of the dissolve with the opacity tool. But thanks for the advice!
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Dennis Widmyer
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Hi Bret,
I’m actually not running into this bug b/c I want to create a cross dissolve. Rather, I want the scene to fade to total black. Then have the next scene start by fading up from that black. And as far as I know, the easiest way to do and have control over that, is to click Control V on the clip, bring up the Video options, and fade out the opacity.
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Yeah, figured it must be a bug. Because it’s very random and follows no pattern.
Another bug I can’t stand, is when you fade to black on a clip, using the Opacity tool. Then you decide to undo it, and raise the Opacity back up to 100%, but ONE frame remains black, no matter what you do. The only way I’ve found to fix it, is to cut that frame out by lifting it, then go into ‘P’ mode and drag a frame over to where it was. Weird.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Thanks, guys. Both of these tricks worked perfectly. You saved me a lot of headache going forward.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Something is Off then. Right now, as I’m typing this to you, I have an entire clip selected/ It’s highlighted yellow. And at the bottom of the screen, all it’s showing me is the total duration of my entire film (timeline). Not the selected clip. Yet ten mins from now, while editing, this feature will randomly start working again. There’s gotta be something I’m not doing right here.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Thank you all for such great advice. In the end, putting the title cards into their own storyline did the trick. Thanks!
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Dennis Widmyer
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Hi everyone,
I’m back in town and back at the editing bay, in the final stages of editing my feature. I took some time to re-read all your replies above, and let me just say how appreciative and grateful I am for your advice.
It looks like our final deliverable is going to be 1080p. So today, I am going to re-create the project in Final Cut X at this property setting. Currently, it’s 5K, and because we shot the film with two cameras (a 5K AND a 4K camera), all of our 4K stuff was originally blown up to 5K (scaled 125%).
So now that I’ve moved everything into a reel with 1080p settings, I’m faced with going in and fixing a ton of shots and re-positioning a handful of shots we scaled. So here are my questions about this process:
1. All of the A-cam shots (5K camera) now have a letterbox on them, as we shot in a widescreen format. This makes total sense, but all the B-cam shots (the 4K camera) do not. I therefore have to go in and add a widescreen letterbox to all those shots, which are spread out among the film.
Question is, what is the best / easiest way to do this? Should I just turn the entire film into one big Compound Clip and then drag the widescreen letterbox matte on as an Effect? Obviously, this would mean it would go over A-cam shots that already have the matte.
2. All of the A-cam shots have a Spatial Conform setting set to ‘Fit.’ All of the b-Cam shots, however, are set to ‘Fill.’ I assume I have to change all B-cam shots now to be ‘Fit?’ Or will changing their scale from 125% to 100% automatically do that?
Either way, what is the best / easiest way to change all B-cam shots to 100% Fit? I don’t think the Ciompound Clip idea would work for this.
I think that covers it. Thank you!
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Dennis Widmyer
http://www.parallacticpictures.com