[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m talking about the application Compressor. Fcpx uses the engine from Compressor to encode projects but you get much more control within Compressor itself. There may be an encoding setting to tweak.

I also vaguely remember reading about Blu-ray Discs failing to play with menus enabled but setting them to auto play the movie worked fine.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

There’s not much you have control over when burning any disc format from FCPX so there’s not a lot you can do wrong.

I guess just a couple of questions to fill in the blanks…

1. Which version of FCPX? Which version OS X?
2. Have you tried sending the project to Compressor and burning from there?
3. Have you tried making an mage and burning that image with Disk Utility or Toast?

I ask the last one because I’ve often had DVDs fail when burning directly from FCPX and my solution was to create an image then burn with something else.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

You apply the built-in LUTs to clips in the clip browser. Select all the appropriate clips there, then apply the LUT using the info panel.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

As far as I know, the only interface should be the drop down menu. Anything else is FCPX playing up on you so it might be time for a reset/reinstall.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I don’t think anyone’s disputing that it’s a rewrap on import. It’s whether exporting that same clip would be a rewrap as asked by the original poster. I don’t think he’s asking for FCPX to output AVCHD, just if nothing else changes, would FCPX just export the rewrapped file or would it render?

It’s a bit of an academic question as it’s not something you ever want to do in the real world.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I don’t think you’ll find any definitive answer. Larry Jordan blogged something not so long ago, posing a similar question and nobody could say for sure. The only way to know is for someone who cares to run the test I mentioned. Or maybe an Apple engineer could answer the question if you contacted support.

On ingest FCPX won’t do anything different to Clipwrap / Editready. They all just rewrap the footage into a container that is more easily accessible than AVCHD. Ingest into FCPX and copy the resulting clips out of the media storage folder and you’ve done exactly what clipwrap would do for you.

What happens if you import and clip and immediately export it again from an FCPX timeline is anybody’s guess short of finding one of the two options I mentioned above.

Still, If you do get a definitive answer, I’d be interested to know what it is.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m going to say it’s a reencode. That single clip scenario would happen so rarely that I can’t imagine it being something FCPX would do. The way to test would be to keep importing and exporting generations of the same clip over and over again to see if it degrades. If it’s just rewrapiping, there should be no loss of quality no matter how many times you did it.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

As far as I know, ingest is essentially a rewrap. Exporting would logically be a reencode as you can’t just rewrap if you’re doing something like joining two clips together or adding effects and titles.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

The two questions were why I suggested checking out some more in-depth basic training. How to use the trim tool is definitely a part of all the basic training packages I’ve come across and most cover using the retiming tool. it just suggested to me that you needed to go a little deeper into the basics.

Anyway, keep asking and we’ll help you get there, but in light ornate basics you’ve already missed, I’ll repeat my earlier warning: unless this is a really small, simple project FCPX success is all about workflow and metadata and knowing how to get to where you’re going before you start. As you’re learning don’t skip that stuff because it seems boring or irrelevant as I can almost guarantee it’ll come back to bite you later.

So endeth the sermon 🙂

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Melbourne, Australia | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

A quick Google search should get find you dozens of tutorials on FCPX basics. Ripple Training have some nice practical ones.

Whichever tutorials you look at, I can’t recommend doing some basic training strongly enough. FCPX is different from any of the NLEs you’ve mentioned having experience with, and just jumping in without a good understanding of the workflow, or how to take advantage of things like the magnetic timeline is a sure-fire path much hair-pulling and swearing at the screen.

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