[Jeff Kirkland]

Yes, definitely missed. Send feedback and fingers crossed for the next update, I guess.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

Even if it were possible I believe fcpxml only supports colour information from the colour board, not third party plugins like Color Finale.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’ll let someone else chime in with a technical explanation but it’s not so much about the bitrate as it is about the effort required to decode a specific codec.

AVCHD is an inter-frame compression codec so it is constructed from one full frame followed by several partial frames that are reconstructed on the fly as you play them back. That recreation of the intermediate frames can have a high system overhead.

ProRes on the other hand is an intra-frame codec. Every frame exists in its entirety and all the computer has to do is display one frame after another which requires way less effort.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

The background is actually a dark grey so you still be able to still see the edges of the frame. If it looks black you might want to check your screen brightness. But no, there’s no way to change anything about the colours they’ve chosen.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

FCPX wilmdefinitely slow down if the images are too large so the close toy can get them to your final resolution the better depending on how much you might want to crop/zoom in. I can’t say I’ve done projects that have used more than 20-30 images but I usually just make the narrowest dimension 2160px and go from there. Haven’t had any issues with that.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

Yes, I pretty much always use the FCPX sync tools although some prefer the results from Pluraleyes. In the browser you select your clip and the audio and use the create synchronised clip command.

I can’t recommend highly enough that you go do some basic training in FCPX as soon as you can. Or even do something crazy like reading the user guide. Any other path will on,y lead to months of frustration.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

1. I prefer to use multiple events for scenes rather than keywords but others don’t. Even if you use multiple events, you can still apply keywords and use them either within the event or globally across the entire library. try both ways and see which you prefer.

2. You can choose the “leave in place” option on import and FCPX will use the footage you point it to without copying it. The only exception is footage like AVCHD that it has to rewrap to use.

3. Correct – there is no save button. Everything you do is saved as you go. In practice, it’s rare that a crash costs you more than the last few key clicks.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

[Doug Metz] “I replied to the last post (can’t we edit our own replies anymore?)…
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Had this happen and stumped me for ages. If the problem persists, try replying to your own post, then scroll up to the post you’re replying to and you will see an edit option.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

All I can think of is to make sure you don’t have a range selected. That’s the only time FCPX doesn’t export the entire project.

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

[Jeff Kirkland]

managing it yourself or letting FCPX do it for you are both fine options as long as you understand what FCPX is doing and where your files are going when you import. I chose to manage the rewrapping myself using editready because I like having control over the file names and organising footage at the Finder level.

My workflow is to convert anything like AVCHD that isn’t directly readable by FCPX with editready. I don’t often keep copies of the original camera cards once that’s done, just the rewrapped footage. I get EditReady to add a project ID to the file names so I can find them easily, and also to write in metadata like camera angle, etc that otherwise wouldn’t be there.

I then import into fcpx with the “leave in place” option selected and from there it’s just edit and export as needed. If I’m going to edit on the road but don’t want take the original media with me I get FCPX to create proxy files either inside the library itself or managed externally on the drive I’m taking with me although it’s rare for me that the media files are so large I wouldn’t just take a complete copy of the files.

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