[James Taylor]

And suddenly FCPX is starting to look good again. Wow, didn’t take very long to go full circle.

JT

[James Taylor]

Unbelievable. Someone at Apple is laughing right now.

JT

[James Taylor]

For some very basic FCPX training you might try here:

https://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

These are free. The next logical step would be RippleTraining.

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks!

JT

[James Taylor]

T. Payton,

I had high hopes for this (archive), but am a bit disappointed after capturing 20 or so tapes this way. FCPX gets through the archive (says completely successful), but I just realized it is actually not capturing the last few minutes of the tape! Can you confirm that you are capturing the ENTIRE tape when you archive it? Can you take a tape, check the last few seconds, and then look in the archive to see if it came through? Most of these are home movies of the kids that I ran all the way to the end of the tape. Might that be the problem? Are most of your tapes stopped recording before the end?

I’m running the latest version of FCPX on an early 2011 i7 Macbook Pro with 8Gigs of ram. Capturing from a Canon Elura 50.

Thanks,

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks for the info!

So do you back up the original files and the Grinder files when you complete a project? Or do you just archive the Grinder files?

JT

[James Taylor]

When you import the media just select proxy (no optimized media). Go into preferences and change Playback to use proxy media. As you select footage to use, make sure you mark it as a favorite. When you are done, do a search/filter for just the favorite footage. Now you can select all those clips and Transcode Media. When you are done with that, make sure to set your preferences back to optimized media. If you try to export your movie without changing back, it will use the proxy files instead of the optimized media.

Is there any reason this workflow wouldn’t work?

JT

[James Taylor]

Have you considered this from Ripple Training:

https://www.rippletraining.com/managing-fcp-x-events-projects-with-disk-images.html

Looks like you old move that to an external and be set.

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks Mark!

JT

JT

[James Taylor]

Thanks for your time Mark – appreciate it!

My Mac (early 2011 15″ macbook pro) came with Quicktime 7, but not the pro version. Looks like it takes the pro version to import image sequences. Too bad it didn’t come with FCPX or Motion 5. Also, it looks like Quicktime X can’t import image sequences (at least that I can see).

So, I guess I could purchase Quicktime 7 Pro for 30.00. However, it seems like I should be able to do this in Motion.

1) I batched corrected all my images in Lightroom and exported the images at a manageable size.
2) I imported the image sequence into Motion 5 – set project to 24P.
3) Everything played fine, but it was faster then I wanted.
4) I exported as a prorez file and then took it into FCPX.
5) I added music and slowed the footage down to 25%.
6) Exported the movie and everything was fine.

The process was fine, but I’m wondering how much I’m degrading the movie by slowing down 25% in FCPX? Is there a simple way I can tell Motion 5 the length I want each image to be? That way the file coming out of Motion 5 would be perfect. Or, can anyone suggest a better way without Quicktime 7 Pro?

Thanks again,

JT

JT