Jeff Kirkland
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LIvetype – now there’s a blast from the past. I’m surprised it even runs, let alone outputs anything.
You might try rendering to Animation Codec instead of Prores 444. Or you might try telling FCPX to override the alpha setting on the ProRes 444 file on the off chance it’s misinterpreting the footage.
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MPEG Stramclip still works, even in El Capitan, but its days have to be numbered. Meanwhile it’s still a handy tool for fast format conversions, although I don’t use it often these days as the current version of Compressor is fast, and pretty much does everything I want.
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Not true in my experience but I can’t say I can remember trying to sync multiple frame rates in a multicam… can’t think of any reason for it not to work though.
At the end of the day you’ve got nothing to lose by just trying it. Worst case is you’ll have to transcode and re-import one camera worth of footage.
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I’m just finishing up an edit that was 25p and 30p freely intermingled so I can’t imagine that you’ll have an issue. FCPX tends to handle that sort of stuff very well.
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The final size is really going to depend on the compression settings. At similar settings, I find compressor to be close to handbrake or MPEG Streamclip file size-wise.
I use all three apps depending on my mood but I’ve been leaning towards compressor more since the last update. Mostly I like the integration into FCPX and it’s ability to add things like burnt in text and timecode to my output.
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Agreed, even my 2013 Mac Pro struggles with GH4 internal 4K footage. My first step is almost always to either optimise or generate proxies – and it’s usually proxies because my dual drive RAID Thunderbolt enclosure just doesn’t have the speed to deliver much in the way of 4K goodness.
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Final Cut uses Compressor’s render engine to encode footage so the quality would be identical – but Compressor gives you the ability to get under the hood and customise the settings so you can tweak as needed to improve the output.
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I’ll just add that while I haven’t seen that specifi issue before, I think it’s telling you that your audio doesn’t end exactly on a frame boundary so FCPX is going to trim it back to the nearest frame.
Keep in mind that it’s unusual, in my experience at least, to apply a fade to just an audio clip. I think most people would use the fade handles instead.
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Make them a compound clip – not that it’s an answer to your specific issue but if you combine all three clips into one, you only need to add one fade. Much neater and I’d expect it to solve the problem.
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Import the files into FCPX. If you’re not doing anything complex you might not need to do any transcoding but chances are you’ll be better of optimising the media, and if your computer can’t cope with that, working with proxies.
You can do it all inside FCPX.Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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