Jeff Kirkland
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I have to agree. I’ve always used iTunes to store and organise my production music and having access to the playlists from within FCPX is brilliant.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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And keep in mind it’s only a problem because you’re new to FCPX and didn’t do it the right way to start with. Next time you’ll know better and sort all those cutaways using metadata instead. Consider it a part of the learning curve.
As to which NLE to choose, I can only repeat what others have said, you need to think and work differently to make the most of FCPX. It would be a shame if you abandoned a great NLE because you haven’t taken the time to get familiar with how it works.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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You can set up your own using Motion or you might look at the plugin available from this web site.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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There’s certainly no need to convert something that FCPX can play natively but, and this is personal preference, I would rather just deal with one format right across my workflow.
A typical project for me might have h264 from a dslr alongside AVCHD, XDCAM, and HDV. In my workflow, the original media gets archived and everything gets converted to ProRes whether it plays natively or not. All the conversions are done by external applications because FCPX is just way to slow if I leave it to do the conversion for me.
The edit, for me at least, just seems to go much more smoothly if I start off with everything in the same format.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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The advantage to shooting higher resolutions is that ‘over sampling’ by shooting at 1080 then reducing in post can help make footage from a less than great camera look better
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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My general advice is shoot as high a resolution as you can, so 1080 unless there’s some technical reason not to.
As to MP4… Even if FCPX coukd play it, it just isn’t a codec designed for editing. FCPX is built around ProRes and my advice is always to convert footage to ProRes before editing, even the other formats natively supported, as it just improves performance and saves headaches in the long run.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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Or to put it this way, FCPX supports SAN but not plain vanilla NAS. FCPX projects and events have to be located in specific folders either in the root of an external drive or in your user’s Movies folder. FCPX does not support network volumes other than those that are part of a SAN.
You can work around it to a degree by storing events and projects in something like a dmg and mounting that from the server.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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Blackmagic’s Intensity Pro card does the job for me. Two monitors and real time playback to a 42″ plasma TV.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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I’d suggest looking at the clip’s info in FCPX and checking that FCPX thinks the clips are where they actually are. I’d also try re-linking the clips from within FCPX. if all else fails, I’d re-encode one of the clips and see if it’s just something weird in the original transcoding to ProRes.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
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Melbourne, Australia -
Use the second number, so in your case 480p
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
Melbourne, Australia