[Greg Janza]

The easiest way to share a video these days is to upload it to Vimeo, Youtube, etc and then give someone a link. It allows you to keep it high quality and the size of the file is irrelevant once it’s uploaded.

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[Greg Janza]

Tony, it must be something with how you’re exporting out of FCPX.

I just tested a 6 channel split track mono pro res file that had been uploaded directly to Frame.io. I downloaded it from Frame.io and then imported it into Premiere and it remains a 6 channel split track mono pro res file.

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[Greg Janza]

I would recommend that you abandon QT7 completely. To check the accuracy of a split track file import it into an NLE.

And for file playback use this instead: https://iina.io/

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[Greg Janza]

I think maybe there’s a disconnect here. If I understand you, you want to create one split track file that can be used for two different purposes – to review on Frame.io by your producer and then to also be downloaded and used by your editor to edit with.

Oliver and I have stated that if you upload a split track file directly to the frame.io website you will then be able to do what you’ve requested.

If you’re saying that you can’t have a file that’s split track after exporting that split track file out of FCPX and uploading it directly to Frame.io then the problem lies solely with FCPX.

But I’m also wondering why you’re spending so much energy on something so simple. Even if you didn’t use the extension, uploading split track files to the frame.io site directly is still easy peasy.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tony West] “I do an edit on the interview and I send the Frame link to two different people. 1) The producer (who will not cut but review it) and 2) the editor who will cut it into a larger segment and will want as much control and flexibility as possible over it.”

If you use the web interface directly you can have exactly what you’re looking for- one video for two uses.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tony West] “Sorry about the frustration with this, but unfortunately this is a known limitation with multi-track audio from FCPX.”

I’m not using FCPX but I’m not using the Premiere extension either. If you upload a split track file directly to the frame.io site there are no issues.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tony West] “B. Your way doesn’t work anyway, because even if you skip the app and take a video with mics on separate tracks directly into Frame, you will not be able to monitor both those mics. So if you can’t HEAR the mics how are they supposed to review it?”

Split tracks are only going to be used in an NLE anyway so the ability to monitor those tracks in the frame.io interface seems unnecessary.

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[Greg Janza]

For starters, I would want full customization of the encoder settings in the extension and not presets.

And again Oliver is correct, split track pro-res files uploaded directly from the web browser work perfectly. We just uploaded a project recently with several split track masters and all uploaded and downloaded from frame.io without issue.

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[Greg Janza]

Most likely you’re working with H264 mxf files. Create Cineform HD proxies and your system performance should increase dramatically.

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[Greg Janza]

I use Frame.io every day and I can concur with Oliver that the frame.io extension just isn’t ready for prime time.

I also agree that frame.io should clean up the inconsistencies with their UI.

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