Jeff Kirkland
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I boosted the exposure in the mid-range, added a truck-load of blue in the highs (hit the top of the color board, I think) and reduced the saturation to compensate for the underexposure. I’ve attached a color board preset if you want to look at that.
It goes in your user library->application support->pro apps->color presets.
You might have to save a preset first to create the folder. And just in case you haven’t had to do it before, the user library is hidden but can be reached through the Finder’s Go menu if you hold down the alt key.
9383_noamairportfix.cboard.zip
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I literally spent three minutes with the colour board while the microwave was heating up my breakfast and got to this result, which I think is ok-ish. Or at least it looks ok on my Macbook Air screen with my pre-coffee eyes.
If I had Color FInale installed, I could probably do better still, or better still, I’d take the clip into Resolve and fix it there.
The main thing is, no keyframing of masks required to get to this point – just correcting an underexposed and badly balanced image.
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El Capitan aside, I’ve had so many weird things happen in FCPX over the last couple of weeks, I had to double check that I still had the right version installed.
Out of nowhere, I’ve gotten repeated “out of application memory” errors, background rendering refuses to start (even if I hit ctrl-r), imports don’t happen, parts of the UI are drawing really slowly.
And this is on a four week old, fresh install of Yosemite with a 6-core 2013 Mac Pro. Random weird stuff is happening to FCPX on my 27″ iMac as well.
Are we sure that Apple haven’t silently pushed out an OS X ‘tweak’ that has messed with FCPX? Editing on my laptop with El Capitan is way better behaved than it is under both my Yosemite machines right now.
I’m going to limp along until there’s a post El Capitan release of FCPX and I can do a clean install of everything but it looks like it’s going to be a painful wait, for me at least.
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Glad it worked out 🙂
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I bought mMorphCut and It works well. I’ve played with the Premiere and Resolve versions and this is on par with them.
My opinion, for those who haven’t played with this sort of plugin, is that it’s great for small things like ummmms and ahhhs and too-long pauses, but (as you’d expect) the greater the movement between the clips, the less effective it is. Chances are you will still have to reframe footage from two completely different takes unless you can find a very similar point to cut them together.
Medium shots of people who talk with their hands are pretty much a no-go zone for this type of effect.
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your option is to pick the aspect ratio you want to use, create a timeline in that format and then and resize the clips from the other camera to match. So you are either editing letterboxed 1080p or at actual 1013p and cropping the top/bottom off the canon footage, or you are editing 1080p and cropping the sides off the 4K footage.
If you’ve got the 4K originals just drop them into the 1080p timeline and resize as needed. The option you are looking for is setting the clips to “fill” rather than “fit” in the conform tab.
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Have you tried copying your project to a new library? Or deleting all your render and cache files and letting them rebuild?
It’s just that on my experience, that sort of issue is more likely caused by corrupt render files or database issues than the media itself – with the possible exception of oversized image files chewing up too much memory.
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Performance really depends on what you’re editing. My 2012 iMac is better at h.264 editing than my 6 core nMP but give me a 4K ProRes project and the nMP will be the better performer.
When I first got my nMP I remember feeling disappointed that it wasn’t that much better than my iMac – but that’s not really true. My nMP had to go to Apple for repair and spending a week with my iMac made me really miss my Mac Pro. H.264 aside, the iMac just felt slower at everything.
As some others have suggested, I’d look at hard drive throughput first. I know that was (still is) my biggest performance bottleneck.
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Almost no activity isn’t the same as being an empty track. I guess FCPX is just erring on the side of caution. I’m assuming here that you’ve asked it to remove empty tracks on import, which is something I rarely use. I find I’m better at picking empty tracks than FCPX.
Ultimately, it’s no big deal to select the clip(s) in the browser and toggle the offending track off.
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FCPX has a couple of built-in effects that can be set up to do that, and I did it a few months ago. I’m not in front of my computer, but I think ‘Continuous’ has a setting that would do it. Spend five minutes looking at the built-in text effects and you’ll find a matching effect.
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