[Doug Metz]

I think this is a timeline / display issue.

I’ve noticed when I’m at the beginning of a sequence and using the arrow keys or mouse to move the playhead, I will frequently hear my audio track when all visual indicators say I shouldn’t. I have also found, however, that the waveform display does provide an accurate indicator of position for playback and output. I’m not sure when this started, but it seems fairly recent, and is certainly irritating.

So, if you have system audio on your video clips, you should be able to use the waveforms to see if you’re lined up.

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[Craig Alan] “can’t you just delete the files you don’t want in the finder? why would it take any longer than doing it in FC even if you could do it? then in fc delete the ones that are now off line???”

Here’s what I’m thinking – if you’ve already got the files (thousands of them, probably, in hundreds of folders/subfolders) in an externally-managed Library, it would be far easier to find the ones you don’t want in FCPX. Use filmstrip view with the skimmer and a Keyword shortcut, and you’ll go through those directories far, far faster. Then export the XML for that particular Keyword collection, and run the script to dig into all those folders to extract the unwanted and move ’em to the trash.

Bingo!

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I like where your head is at… perfect job for AS. Mark over at Late Night Software has a free XML osax that may prove useful:

https://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/xml-tools/

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I have seen the the Offline indicator on my setup with all media connected – it turned out to be a missing transition. I’d been cleaning up my effects / transitions / generators (removing demos, etc.), and I had inadvertently left a demo transition in one of my projects.

Something else to check…

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Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any way to flip that switch back on.

[Kenneth Merrill] “Alternatively, is there a program that would import all the video from my phone and change the file names to the capture date while it’s at it? I love the simplicity of just importing everything into events in FCPX, but having the dates in the file names is just so dang convenient for future remembrance.”

I don’t know of anything on the market that will do this automatically.

If you want to pursue Finder file renaming, you’ll need a new, manual process – and having thought about this further, I’m not sure its worth the extra work and potential problems that could result…

As Bill said earlier, you’d first need to transfer the files from the phone -outside- of Final Cut. To avoid the double-whammy of transcoding and losing metadata, I’d use Image Capture for this step. You can simply drag-n-drop iPhone clips from the Image Capture window into a folder in the Finder.

Next, renaming the files. A fairly simple AppleScript could do this quickly and easily in a single batch, or you could rename them one at a time manually.

Once that’s done, you can ingest. Since you indicated that you’re already browsing media files in the Finder, I’m assuming you’ve got Final Cut storing the Library’s media in an external folder. To avoid creating duplicates, you can set FCP to leave your files in place, or, if you’re copying into the library, you’d delete the first copy.

The process isn’t terribly difficult, but the extra steps don’t really pay off in a way that’s decidedly ‘better’ and they create more work for you.

You can already view / search / sort date information in the Finder (which is what FCPX used early on).

Maybe the best solution is to simply change your Media folder’s Finder view to show Creation Date, and sorting by that column would be a satisfactory compromise…

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[philip john] ” Progressive was not an option. Some anti-aliasing, a little sharpening, and a half % Gaussian blur makes it ‘okay’.”

Are you saying Progressive override didn’t correct the aliasing, or are you saying that final delivery must be interlaced? May be a difference without distinction, but a difference nonetheless… it sounds like you’re aiming for progressive output.

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Exactly.

This is why I asked about workflow… we don’t know anything about the source media, where it comes from, or what steps are already in place.

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Do you have this problem with all of the files from the Phantom, or just some of them? Would require a little testing, one-at-a-time batches to verify…

Also, you mentioned that QT7 will open them – will it also export a usable ProRes transcode?

I’d like to have a look at one of the source files if you’re interested in uploading one of the trouble-makers.

Cheers!

[EDIT] One of the things that’s got my curiosity is the fact that the card format is FAT32, which has a 2GB file size limit. With 4K, damn near everything will be a spanned clip, so maybe the answer lies somewhere in there.

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[Craig Alan] “I think the best quality is to stay with the original aspect ratio and codec.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12743?locale=en_US“

+1

You’re not going to gain anything by transcoding to ProRes, since the tape is already a digital stream. In fact, it’s possible that an incorrect transcode setting could hose your freshly-ingested files.

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I just had a look through the prefs and didn’t see anything useful, but maybe there’s a way to do this automatically at the Finder level with AppleScript.

What’s your typical workflow?

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