[Jeff Kirkland]

whe. you say project are you meaning library? and by snapshot are we talking about the backups that FCPX auto creates?

you can import a library or the backup of a library but not an individual project,

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Not something you can do in FCPX. You can drag the borders to resize and you can open either the clip browser or timeline viewer on a second monitor.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Yeah, it’s one of those things that can catch you out but once you know, it’s not too hard to work around. I’d guess there’s probably some useful comparison utility on the app store that could isolate the duplicate clips in the old folder but I’ve never gone looking.

I use Post Haste from Digital Rebellion to create new projects. it creates and names my folder structure, and copies in an empty FCPX library that has been set up the way I prefer. It’s brilliant for keeping everything consistent from job to job.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

As other have said, shooting a higher frame rate gives you more frames to work with. If an action takes one second (25 frames) and you slow it 50%, that action is now taking place over 2 seconds (50 frames). If you shot at 50 fps you have actual real frames to play back. If you shot 25 fps, there are only 25 frames so the software has to invent the extra frames. Optical flow does a great job of this but actually shooting the frames will always be that little bit better.

As also mentioned here, the faster you shoot, the more light you need.

Its always a trade-off between the importance of quality vs the convenience of just faking it.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Consolidate copies the media to the new library storage location and leaves the originals in place. Apple erring on the side of caution. Once you are aware of that, it’s not too hard to go back and manually delete the extra copy but it would be nice if maybe FCPX had an option to move rather than copy.

If you let FCPX handle the import, each new library defaults to the last storage location you manually set. So if you create a library and set the storage to “my location”, then every library you create after that will store footage in the same folder until you change it.

It’s not how I’d personally like it to work but It’s fine as long as I remember to set the library storage location avery time I create a new one. At the end of the day it has to default to something although maybe this is another case where FCPX should ask for a storage location when a new library is created, or at least default to storing it inside the library rather than the last specified location.

Anyway, I tend to create my own media folders for each project and set up the footage in the finder (using something like EditReady to convert where needed). Then I import with the “leave in place” option and it saves me forgetting to point FCPX’s importer to a new folder.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’m on the verge of picking up a couple of XC10s for a project so I’m curious… I thought the XF utility let you import and transcode the footage to ProRes? Is this not the case?

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[Jeff Kirkland]

Here in Australia I’m generally shooting 25p but despite being a 50hz PAL country, not all screens are doing that.

Most computer monitors are showing 60hz or higher. It’s rare for a computer screen to be able to sync to 50hz. A lot of cheap televisions are really just computer monitors with a receiver added so they’re also running at 60hz. More mid-range big brand TVs are showing PAL at 50jz but not always.

I’ve been shooting 24p for almost everything except stuff destined ffor broadcast during the past year or so. Even with broadcast I don’t think there’d be any great issue with me converting 24 to 25fps but some network QA departments can be painful so I err on the side of caution.

DVD players, Blu-Ray players, televisions, and even a lot of cheap computer monitors know what 24p is and will most often show it natively – and it’s a fairly safe standard to use world-wide.

Anyway, the upshot is that for the web you might want to shoot 30 or 60p, for broadcast you might want to shoot 25 or 50p and for everything else 24p is the common denominator – but whatever you shoot in someone, somewhere isn’t going to be watching at the frequency you intended..

FCPX doesn’t really care what you shot it in so you may as well choose what’s technically best for you ca,era and shoot away.

Or at least that’s been my thinking in 2015.

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Obviously, I need new glasses. A long day, and a late night, and I seem to have lost the ability to read. There are just way too many codecs with AVC in them,,,,

So, according to Canon, you use the XF utility version 2.0 to convert the footage from an XC10. I take it this isn’t doing what it’s supposed to?

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Two minutes with Google gave me this link to Apple’s support page on importing XFAVC. Hopefully it helps.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202252

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I agree – that sounds like you are listening to the original audio. If you are certain you;re listening to the right clip try using open in timeline on the clip on the browser just to check that it has actually synchronised and added the replacement audio.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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