Jeff Kirkland
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I guess we’d also have to ask what codecs you’re working with and what sort of computer you’re editing on now. My 2013 Mac Pro has no problem with three or four streams of colour corrected 4k video (h.264, ProRes HQ/422 and Blackmagic Raw). Smooth playback that starts when I press play and I rarely have to render. My Apple Silicon Mac Mini is even faster and smoother.
It’s been a while since I’ve been on the COW so I may have missed prior discussions but I’d suspect the bottleneck is the hardware it’s running on rather than Resolve itself.
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Just finished a massive project on my 2013 Mac Pro with 100 videos rendered as ProRes and h264 and they play back perfectly on my Apple Silicon Mac Mini. What codec are you rendering to on your Intel Mac?
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Keyboard Maestro can be used to automate repetitive key presses so you could set up a hot key to send the key presses to jump forward 15 seconds, make a multicam cut and have it repeat as many times as you like. I last used it for doing pretty much what you described, just A/B switching a really long clip every few seconds. I set the macro to repeat a thousand times which got me to the end of the clip pretty quickly.
Hope that makes sense?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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FCPX isn’t scriptable but I’ve achieved similar using keyboard macros and the app Keyboard Maestro.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Turn the project into a compound clip. Favourite whatever part of it you need. When you add the favourite to a timeline you can either leave it asa. compound or expand it back into he individual clips for editing.
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Those are more questions for your DoP than an editor.
As a cinematographer though, I would usually say that frame rate is only a very small part of things looking ‘cinematic’ and to shoot at the base frame rate for your deliverable. No point shooting at 24fps if you’re aiming for broadcast 30fps or shooting green screen, etc.
I only shoot off-speed if I know I’m going to want to slow down the footage later – but if you have no clue what you might want to use as slo-mo then shoot it all at higher frame rates and live with the decreased motion blur.
As far as FCPX goes, it will generally handle whatever you throw at it in terms of mixed frame rates so set the timeline to the base frame rate everything was shot at. Again, shoot for the deliverables.
If you need to output multiple frame rates, in my experience art least, FCPX’s frame rate conversion can be a bit dodgy. I’ve had FCPX frame rate conversions fail network QC so I usually leave conversions to other applications e.g. Resolve.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Probably the only way is to grab a section of the chord that works as a loop and paste it a few times. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It all depends what’s happening musical in and around the chord. Alternatively, you might throw a bit of reverb on the last note to add some sustain and a longer decay to fool the ear into thinking the final chord lasts a bit longer than it does.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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I have Catalina on my 2013 iMac with 24gb RAM and it’s working pretty well. It maybe has to think a fraction longer to do some things but nothing that’s bothersome. I’d expect your iMac should be fine.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Shooting at 25fps would be the way I’d go unless I made a conscious decision to switch to 50 for one of the reasons mentioned above. Eg. I know I want to slow the shot down later or maybe I want to reduce the motion blur and add some clarity to a fast moving object.
It’s really a technical and aesthetic choice on your part. FCPX will cope with whichever you choose.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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50fps will have less motion blur and let you slow the footage to 50% without interpolation. It will take twice the space of 25fps. But unless I specifically need the advantages of shooting off speed, I tend to stick to shooting in the delivery format.
FCPX will cope fine with mixed frame rates.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland