Jeff Kirkland
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FCPX isn’t scriptable so I don’t think there’s any way to automate this within FCPX.
The only thing that comes to mind is that if you grab a keyboard macro app, you might be able to set up some keyboard macros to jump 15 seconds then switch to angle 1 and another to jump 30 seconds then switch to angle 2, then another macro to repeatedly alternate the first two until the end.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland -
Nope. You’re not missing anything. Send Apple some feedback.
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Fcpx has several compression options from basic compressors to complex multi-frequency versions. Under levels in the audio effects section.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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If you edit in proxy, you have to switch to optimised/original before you export. FCPX 10.4 will give you an on-screen reminder about this, just in case you forget. I’ve never had to edit in proxy mode yet, even with 4k on my 2012 iMac but I’m reasonably certain sending to Compressor will do the same. If you send it the proxies, that’s what it will use instead of the 4k original files.
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It’s the result of managed media. The (fcp1) means that there would have been two clips with the same name in the same managed folder so FCPX added that to the second clip to prevent a conflict. It’s good that it does but it’s one of the reasons I never let FCPX manage my media – I like to know exactly what a clip is called and what folder it is in.
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Haven’t done a FireWire VHS transfer in years but a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter used to work fine with my old FireWire I/O box and FCPX still officially supports tape based FireWire input it so it should still be ok.
Apple’s support document:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12743?locale=en_AU—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Not intended to be argumentative but I’ve been using FCPX since the day it was released and there’s no trick to it – either the audio was actually attached to the part of the clip you deleted or you have some weird bug going on. Try moving the audio clip connection to another spot to make sure FCPX knows where the connection is and give it another go would be my only suggestion.
My other thought is that, based on what you’ve described, it sounds like you’re making life a little awkward for yourself by having b-roll on the primary storyline and audio attached to that. Most people using FCPX would have the voice over audio on the primary and any b-roll as either a connected clip or secondary storyline attached to that. That way there’s very little chance of affecting the audio as you move or trim the b-roll.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Outputting to ProRes and bringing it back in is a perfectly ok thing to do. There is always a minor degradation but you would need to reimport-rerender-reimport many, many times to even begin to see it.
I’d personally keep a copy of the FCPX project and all original media used in it – hard drive space is cheap – but your system is absolutely fine and I do exactly that for projects I know won’t ever see a re-edit.
Good quality noise reduction is always processor intensive and time consuming. If you’re grading in FCPX, apply it only to the clips that need it, then turn it off until you finish your colour grading and re-enable it for the final output.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Performance would depend on the number and size of the images and the performance of the plugins as much as the speed of the hard drive but they’re all interrelated. What plugins in particular are you using?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Not that I know of. It’s just a part of the workflow that you need to rename the files before import.
Renaming the files at the finder level is always going to mean having to re-import into FCPX as the renaming you do inside the app is virtual – so if you bring in a file from the finder called ClipA and rename it in X to MyClip, FCPX is still connecting that to a file in the finder called ClipA. If you rename it in the finder to MyClip, FCPX will still be looking for ClipA in the finder and you’ll have a missing file, with no way to relink it other than to re-import.
I guess there’s a possibility that an app may may exist to do that via XML but I personally would be very upset if I renamed a file inside FCPX and it changed them in the finder too – any media shared across multiple libraries would suddenly become unlinked and it’d be a nightmare.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland