[James Ewart]

Because we all create Archives as backup don’t we? Even I do and I’m storage stingy!!

[James Ewart]

Yup ands even nice thing about proxy it it doesn’t use up all that space

[James Ewart]

Okay thanks.

I think I’m trying to be too clever.

regards

James

[James Ewart]

My journey with FCPX only really began for real once I grasped the Gaps thing. Until then I was battling the software.

Use of Gaps is fundamental to the way I work now and i I were to write a manual, chapter one paragraph one would be to point out that you have to get your head round and use Gaps.

That said I seem to recall Bret does not use them much so it depends on the way you think I suppose.

[James Ewart]

That is an excellent tip thank you…sometimes inserting gaps can be a bit of a pain for some reason

[James Ewart]

Yup confused about the point of “Optimised pro Res” if you can use proxy and then export using original files that is never going to be lower quality than Optimised files and sometimes better because optimised Pro Res is often going to be compressed. No?

So I am suggesting that when working with Red footage or Hi quality for example it might be better to not Optimise, work in proxy and then export using original.

And I cannot see an advantage even for AVC HD is creating optimised footage.

Surely simpler to go to proxy and then output from original files.

Bu are you saying the inject process for creating these proxy files is much slower than optimised Pro Res? I have not noticed this to be the case but maybe I a not paying attention properly!

[James Ewart]

OK all very interesting.

BUT

Not sure what you mean by trashing optimised version.

Then what do you export?

And do we know for sure that even if I don’t and leave the Optimised version there when I export FCPX will take the best quality stuff for export. IE use the original files?

Sorry for being obtuse

[James Ewart]

“If you are working with R3D raw, or umpteen hours of DSLR h264, creating optimized media will make your editing experience much more enjoyable.’

But to clarify when you export FCPX will use the original files rather than the compressed Optimised Pro Res?

“If you are using XAVC, ProRes Alexa files, XDCam HD, DV, DVCPro HD and a few others, then Optimizing won’t even be available.”

Really? I did not know that. So we are talking definite need for Mac Pro here no?

[James Ewart]

Thanks.

I suppose I thought creating Pro Res proxy from AVCHD would save me a lot of storage (by not creating optimised) given that it brings in the original media anyway.

Then export from original for the master having applied all the colour and effects and titles to the proxy version.

Probably over thinking it?

best

James

[James Ewart]

Um well…um…err…well because I thought FCP handled the edit faster if it was cutting Pro Res proxy files rather than native.

Some guy at Apple once told me the recommended workflow was to always Optimise Media but I started thinking if the original files were very high quality than ‘Optimising” to Pro Res might be compressing the files if they come form a proper HD source file and that it might be better to cut in Proxy (for performance sake) and then export from Native when off line/proxy is finished.

For some reason I have always thought cutting native was not a good idea.

Kind of finding an old online/online workflow like in 7.