[Jeff Kirkland]

yiu can update the library but it will be a two step process. You need to use the trial version of 10.2 to update the 10.0 library, then 10.3 to update from 10.2.

Read about it in this Apple support doc: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202826

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

If you ask RX 6 to load a two channel file it’s going to show them to you as stereo. You can either a) just export a new mono file with the channel you need to repair from FCPX or b) select the channel you want to work on within RX 6 by using (could be wrong, I’m not at the computer) command-L or command-R. Check the RX user guide to confirm the commands.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

These days there’s only a couple of stations that still want SD so I tend to edit at 1080p.

Any presets I make in Compressor are directly available inside FCPX so I’ll often just export multiple copies of my timeline straight from FCPX to cover the various formats stations want (MXF, MP4, SD anamorphic) along with a 1080p master. Other times I’ll send the timeline to Compressor and just batch all the other options from there.

The current Compressor is both faster and higher quality than the older versions – and it’s relatively cheap – so it’s well worth getting.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

FCPX will only convert h264 to ProRes if you specifically ask it to create optimised media.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ll second that EditReady works really well and is a good investment. I use it daily.

I usually transcode to a higher bitrate than the original media on ingest but I’d be surprised if you can actually see any real difference between 130 and 117 given the codecs.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I deliver SD PAL MPEG 2 to to stations here in Australia all the time but my memory doesn’t go back far enough to be able to help with a version of Compressor that old.

Which leads me to ask, why are you using an ancient version of Compressor to deliver this?

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

Marking ranges, adding markers, and keywords, etc is done in the Browser window. While you can select ranges of media to import within the Import window, it’s a feature that’s not always available depending on the media you’re bringing in. Even then, you still have to do all of your metadata tagging in the Browser window.

Or have i missed what you’re trying to do?

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

Given the state of the art these days, losing one or two generations to rending then using AE and rendering back isn’t that big deal. If you can tell the difference with anything other than extreme pixel,peeping then your eyes are much better than mine.

Automatic Duck have XimportAE that lets you transfer FCPX timeline to AE via XML if you want to save a generation or two and if the recent news that Wes Plate from Automatic Duck is now working for Apple is true, then it’s not unreasonable to think that he might be working some of that import/export magic into future versions of FCPX.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ll be the first to admit that my external monitoring needs aarent that demanding but I’m perfectly happy with either a straight HDMI output from my Mac or via a Blacmagic Ultrastudio Mini Monitor.

Playback is fine using either method even from 4k timelines and colour accuracy is pretty much indistinguishable between them, although I’m sure if I were a professional colourist I might be a little more picky.

The mini monitor drivers have been known to be a bit buggy but I haven’t had a single BMD driver related crash since I did my annual clean install over the Christmas break so they seem to have gotten things back on track – in my experience at least.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

It didn’t show up in the App Store for me either. I just trashed the old version which let me download 10.3.3

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