Jeff Kirkland
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You might get a slightly better result correcting the footage in Resolve but it’s not a straightforward question. What you might do to brighten the image depends on how underexposed it is, what codec was used, what’s going wrong when you do brighten it, what does it have to match to, etc.
For stabilisation it’s the same thing – plugins like Coremelt’s Lock & Load get rave reviews and After Effects has some great stabilisation tools but what do you mean by the result being ‘funny’?. How successfully footage can be stabilised will depend on how much and what sort of motion your’re trying to fix and how much resolution you have to play with.
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It looks like a bunch zoom/blur/swish pan transitions. Can t remember what they’re called but there’s some free versions of similar effects from fX factory.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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No workaround I’m afraid. For FCPX to relink the files must be the same size, frame rate, etc.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Well, it tells you that you can’t use page turns in a compound clip. Report it to Apple.
Meanwhile, I assume all is well if you just break apart the compound clip before you render the final video?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Cmd-j brings up the project properties and lets you change the starting time code of the project, not individual clips.
Unless something’s changed that I haven’t noticed, there’s no way to change a clips timecode in FCPX. The easiest way would be to put the audio track inside a compound clip and set the compound clip’s timecode to zero.
Out of curiosity, whats the reason it needs to be zero? It’s so rare these days that it matters.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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There’s nothing to stop you moving connected clips independently of the primary storyline, just as it’s possible to move clips on the primary storyline independently of the connected clips by holding down the tilde key.
Trying to emulate tracks in FCPX is a sure-fire road to frustration. It’s just not the way it works. It will slow you down and lead you to any number of awkward editing dead-ends. Many have tried but all have either moved on to another NLE wondering what’s so great about FCPX or have finally grasped the whole magnetic timeline concept and wonder how they could have edited in anything else.
Once you embrace the core concept – that every edit has a primary story, either video or audio, and that everything else is just A/V b-roll anchored to points along that storyline – then you will find it increasingly difficult to go back to the limitations of a track based NLE.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Any clip or secondary storyline not on the primary storyline has to be connected to a clip that is on the primary storyline. You can’t have unconnected clips – but you can move that connection by moving the playhead to the point you want the new connection then CMD-OPT clicking on the connected clip. If the connection is from a secondary storyline, you need to click on the storyline shelf (the grey bar at the top of that storyline).
You can also temporarily disable the connection by holding down the tilde (~) key. For example ~ DEL will delete a clip from the primary storyline without deleting the clips connected to it.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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If you are sticking with AVCHD I’d personally opt to copy the cards to the shared storage using something like EditReady to rewrap the files. That way you have much better control over directory structure along with folder and file naming on the NAS, and you end up with clips that FCPX can then import with the “leave files in place” option.
I haven’t worked with 30 cameras but it works well for me getting footage from four or five camera shoots onto my NAS ready to edit.
It always pays to test first to make sure but no, you shouldn’t encounter any issues mixing the two formats on the FCPX timeline.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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Upgrade anything and backwards compatibility with previous versions is always going to be hit and miss – so upgrading one machine and not the others, and then finding it’s not backward compatible is not a reason to denounce 10.3.3 as buggy.
Out of curiosity, which plugin doesn’t work? I’d have thought that 10.3.3 has been out long enough that everyone would have caught up by now.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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The link to the trial is in the apple guide.
Sam: I installed 10.3.3 the day it came out on four different systems. They’ve all run flawlessly editing everything from multicam to 4K ProRes 444. I’ve read people have had issues but it’s far from universal.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland