Jeff Kirkland
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LAnother thumbs up for Jeremy’s workflow from me. I have smart collections for just projects, just snapshots, and a third for compound clips.
At the library level, I have a smart collection that just shows projects with the word ‘delivered’ in them, so that I can easily find what got sent to the client. (I always think it’s tempting fate to use the word ‘final’ in a project name 🙂
I use post-haste to start every project with a library that has the smart collections set up and ready to go.
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I always find trying to figure out UPS loads fairly mind-boggling – and it’s really all about current draw but yes, you could add up the wattage of the equipment you’re going to connect. The higher the load, the faster the battery will run down.
A quick Google search suggests the manufacturer expects the battery to last about nine minutes at half load (400 watts). The Mac on its own is about 1/4 load so, pushed to the max while rendering, should run on the battery for about 18 minutes-ish. Reduce that as you add peripherals.
The seems s a little short for the size of the battery so you might want to double check that run -time figure.
In actual use, the UPS is going to smooth out your power issues, and keep things running through brown-outs and short outages. For a longer-term outage, the battery is intended to buy you the time to shut the system down gracefully.
Power where I am is rock solid, so I haven’t bothered with a UPS in a long time but when I did, I had one for my Mac and a second one with the RAID and monitor plugged in.
Even if the UPS has software to automatically shut the Mac down, there’s still a good chance that it won’t happen if there’s an app that cancels the shutdown, or pauses it, waiting for confirmation from you that it’s ok to continue.
Ultimately though, you should just plug everything in, making sure you don’t exceed 800watts, start a render and cut the power to see how long you get. It’s the only way to really know how long you’re going to run during an outage.
Hope that helps a little…
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There may be better ways, and probably are, but I just do the edit, letting FCPX do it’s thing.
Once I’m done (or before I start) , I assign a role to each of the multicam audio tracks (angle 1, angle 2, etc) then I export audio only, roles as seperate files. I then bring those new audio files back into FCPX and lay them under the multiclip.
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I’m a little lost here… I can see both audio sources in every image you’ve attached.
What you can do in the angle editor is limited because, as the name suggests, it’s mora about the angles than the individual clips, detaching audio is something you’d normally do in the project timeline. In the Angle Editor, you’d normally just turn on/off audio monitoring of the angle you don’t want to hear.
Why do you need to detach the audio in the Angle Editor? I’m trying to imagine a scenario where that would be the appropriate place to do it.
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Nope. Works like a charm for me.
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Make sure you’re using the right preset. It is possible to encode the files without burning the disc. I’m not in front of. FCPX right ow so I can’t tell you exactly what it’s called but you need to drag the actual folder, not the individual presets inside it.
If you have the right preset, yhe project will have an end action of burn blu-ray, and you’ll see the all the blu-ray burning options in the settings panel on the right
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There is a problem with the timecode display but it’s minor and makes no real difference to actually using FCPX.
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You can export / import your custom command sets. I’m out of the office for the holiday season so I don’t have a copy of FCPX with me to check but Final Cut Pro > Commands > Export, from memory.
And yes, resetting preferences or reinstalling FCPX will reset you back to defaults on everything.
If FCPX is working under another user account, then fingers crossed a preferences reset will work. If not then uninstall FCPX, reboot (important) and reinstall. If that fails then backup & delete your current user account and create a new one because the issue will be with OS X rather than FCPX itself and the half hour it takes to delete and recreate your user account will be way shorter than the time you could spend trying to debug that.
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the only time the leave in place option should be greyed out is if the media you are importing isn’t considered native by FCPX.
On the other hand, from Adam’s post on his multicam issues, he is running a version of FCPX that is both old (10.1) and broken, so I’d say all bets are off as afar as normal behaviour goes until he gets that sorted.
UPDATE: just revisited the other thread and I see Adam is actually using 10.2 but in any event, it sounds like his copy of FCPX has gone a little feral and In his shoes I’d do a reset/reinstall to see if this issue is related.
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ProRes anything is considered optimised.
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