Jeff Kirkland
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I find that FCPX’s deinterlacing can be a little underwhelming at times. If all else fails try using JES Deinterlacer on your footage first.
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I’ll add a second vote for manifesto. Use it all the time.
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If you have Color Finale, you can use the curves to deepen the blacks without them going below zero. If you’re using the FCPX color board, I’d apply a broadcast safe filter to cut off the below zero and above 100.
Also, don’t get too hung up on what it’s supposed to be. if it looks good to you then that’s fine. Colour correction is really a two stage process. First pass, get the image technically right – white whites, black black, colour cast removed, saturation normal, etc. Second pass, go for whatever look you want. Crush blacks, blow out the highlights, throw on a LUT, make the shadow purple… whatever works for you.
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I’ve seen the math but I’m not convinced it’s more than a theoretical advantage.
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It depends on how valuable the footage is. My minimum when travelling is to have a verified copy on two physical drives. When I’m not on set, one copy stays in my hotel room safe, one copy comes with me.
Once I’m back in my office, the card gets copied to safe(ish) storage on a redundant RAID server and the FCPX library gets copied to my main work drive. The work drive is synced to a drive in another building every three hours. I also hold off deleting anything from the external drives for as long as possible.
That’s about as few copies as I can manage and still feel my media is safe.
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Last time I was travelling for a shoot I had two external drives. I copied the camera card to drive A, then imported from the card copy on Drive A to an FCPX library (media externally managed) on drive B. That way I had tested my first copy and had a second copy on drive B that I could browse and get started with organising and adding metadata.
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I don’t think anything has changed. You either run the monitor in 4k and grab a magnifying glass, or you scale the output in preferences so OS X treats it like a retina display.
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I use RX all the time but while I can’t point to a tutorial I will say that the plugin loses a lot of functionality within FCPX. It is really difficult to grab a sample for noise reduction for instance when you;re limited to FCPX’s controls. Not to mention that without something like the spectrum display, you’re virtually trying to repair audio blind.
I’ve also had RX crash FCPX from time to time and have ended up having to uninstall RX just so I could open a project again. painful at best.
Anyway, if you want to know if you can or can’t do something specific with RX inside FCPX feel free to ask and I’ll help if I can but my advice would be either export and use it standalone or as a plugin inside a real audio tool like Audition.
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I assume you burnt the image straight from FCPX?
What you’re describing is either a hardware issue (faulty disc, faulty burner, or faulty player) or an encoding issue (the bitrate on the image jumped so high the player can’t cope). More likely the latter
You might try sending the project to Compressor, so you have more control over the final bitrate and see how that goes.
Also try making an image file and burning with Toast, Disk Utility (or has that option moved to the Finder now? I lose track), or whatever app you have available. Creating the image lets me preview the DVD in the DVD Player app so I can spot any basic encoding glitches before I burn it.
Then by burning with something that can verify the copy, I can be fairly sure it’s not a hardware issue, which leaves bitrate and/or hardware player.
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You get that dialog box when you’ve elected to optimise media, set preferences to optimise multicam, or FCPX is in the process of doing some other required render. These renders are system background tasks that aren’t relacted to the standard background render option.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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