[Jeff Kirkland]

It’s probably easier to export the file as ProRes then use a different encoder to get the higher bitrate. Haven’t got it here to look but Handbrake should let you go to 60mbs and from memory, Resolve defaults to 80mbs for its mp4 encodes.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

If you have background rendering on, FCPX’s cache files can get massive if you don’t remember to delete unused render files from time to time.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I used my 2013 MacBook Air to edit from time to time. You can get away with it at full 4k if you only have one or two streams of video and can definitely do it if you go with a proxy workflow. The only downside is that the screen resolution doesn’t give you a lot of room to work as far as the user interface goes.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

if it’s rendering out with the clicks and it works fine with the plugin switched off, then it’s probably an issue with the plugin. Might be time to check you’ve got the latest version and/or chat with their support people.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

In my experience, that’s usually a sign that either the hard drive or processor can’t keep up with the workload. Does the audio still drop out when you render the footage?

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m assuming you are looking at one long video clip and tagging good video and good sound bites rather than seperate video and audio clips – you can either rename the favourite, even something simple like “V” and “A” so you know which was which, or probably even easier, just use keywords, which will be on hotkeys – “Good video”, “Good Audio” or similar.

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Jeff Kirkland | Writer, Director & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

Not really. I’d think you either let them drop out of frame or embrace the joys of rotoscoping. Maybe if the image beyond the green screen is dark enough you could do a luma key but that would be a very slim hope.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

There are numerous plugins that can handle the 3D rotation, you could even make your own in Motion faulty quickly. The two I have installed are “Andy’s Better 3D” and “Bretts 3D”. They don’t do a two sided rotation but you just rotate to 90º where the image is invisible, then swap images and continue.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I haven’t noticed any change in performance but I haven’t been working on any large projects. Playback performance seems about the same though.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

You can’t specify a bitrate for ProRes in any program that I’m aware of. The HQ, 422, LE, etc represent the codec bitrates and can’t be changed. ProRes Proxy is about 45mb/s and that’s as low as ProRes goes. Not to mention that ProRes isn’t really practical as a streaming codec – or are their servers re-encoding the ProRes masters to something else on the fly?

In any event, ProRes Proxy is as low as you can go.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland