Jeff Kirkland
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If you’re getting an error on every import, then there’s clearly something wrong. FCPX is seeing the files but the transfer to an event is failing.
What does FCPX’s activity monitor say? And what was the exact error message you got?
Coming from a world where every card gets archived into multiple places before I get anywhere near FCPX, having to copy the files to the HD first doesn’t seem much of a hardship if it fixes the issue.
I’ll assume you’ve checked some of the basics like trying a different cable? Or it could be that direct transfer your camera isn’t supported by FCPX.
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I’m pretty much with Jeremy. I use compound clips for rough cuts, sub-projects and version snapshots.
I always have one project timeline that represents my ‘final’ edit i.e. what is going to be delivered to the client. If I’m editing say a narrative with scenes, each scene starts life as a compound clip and moves to the main project when I’m happy.
Otherwise, I’m editing in the project timeline and occasionally create a compound clip of the project as a snapshot for versioning.
Even though I create events for footage and one specifically for compound clips, I find the event library can get too cluttered. I much prefer having a single project timeline that I can find in seconds and I know is the current deliverable version.
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It’s been a while since I had to deal with MXF files but if i remember rightly you’ll need to install a driver to get FCPX to handle them. Canon have one and I’ll assume Panasonic would as well.
Either way you’ll need to import the files to an event, then create a project from that event, then share using your compressor preset. FCPX will certainly want to copy the files to an event folder and probably want to optimise the files as well but that should be a background task so you won’t have to wait for it to finish before you can start using the footage.
So the process would be.. import files to event, create new project, select files, hit the ‘e’ key to write the files to the timeline, share via your custom export preset.
That’s about as fast as it gets with FCPX.
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The simplest way would be to use Compressor to create a HDV preset for FCPX that matched the specs they need. Then it would just be a matter of laying your footage on the timeline and choosing your preset from the share menu inside Final Cut.
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What sort of audio and where’s it located?
I had audio playback issues a while back with a mix pf MP3 and WAV files in a project that I put down to not having enough bandwidth for playback. They were located on an external firewire 800 drive that was only doing about 60mbs.
Once I moved the project to my external USB 3 RAID 0 enclosure (210mbs) the problem went away.
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Not really.
You could publish Motion’s Color Balance filter to FCPX. That would give you RGB sliders for highlights, mids, and shadows – and if you click on the colour swatches you can use Apple’s Colour picker as a colour wheel of sorts.
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There’s no dynamic link between FCPX and Motion. You can export whatever clips need some roto work with the third party ClipExporter app although it’s a bit fiddly and I’ll be the first to say it’d be great if Apple gave us an easier way..
if there’s no masking/Rotao work then the keyer in FCPX is the same as the one in motion so there’s very little advantage in sending it there.
Clip Exporter: https://clipexporter.mindtransplant.com (also lets you send your project to After Effects)
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Several of the built in effects can do type-on style text. The Custom title generator would be my first choice. You can do a lot with that. Otherwise if you have Motion you can set up whatever type-on effect you need and publish it back to FCPX.
Depends how nuanced you need it to be I guess.
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This is where a noise reduction plugin is a life saver. Neat Video is probably the best. I haven’t tried the Magic Bullet one since they released the new version.
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Ok. I guess I got confused because your post mentioned that there were bits showing through your key and that it was still only mostly right.
There is a gamma difference between FCPX and the Quicktime Viewer. In theory, FCPX is colour managed so that should be the most correct rendition of your footage. Without seeing the footage, I’d assume it’s camera noise?
Cheers,
Jeff KJeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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