Jeff Kirkland
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Yes it is. In the info panel to set the angle metadata of the individual video clips to be the same. E.g.make the audio angle 1 and all the video clips angle 2. Sync by audio or timecode as appropriate and fcpx will take care of the rest.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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[Joe Marler] “When the files are re-wrapped by either FCPX or EditReady they are not transcoded to ProRes. “
EditReady will convert them to ProRes if you tell it to. I tend to convert to ProRes but that’s mostly because I’m using a 2013 Mac Pro which doesn’t handle h264/h265 all that well.—-
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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As your shooter said, FCPX will happily work with the MTS footage and will rewrap the files in the background if it needs to – but if you want a little more control over the process, I’d suggest manually converting the media before import using an application like EditReady.
I tend to use EditReady most times so that I have control over file renaming, folder structure, etc.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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This isn’t much help after the fact but the easiest approach to using watermarked audio is to put it into a compound clip, Edit with the compound clip, then replace the track inside the compound later. Job done. There’s no easy way to force fcpx to relink if it decides they’re not the same clip.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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From the image, it looks to me like you’re trying to cut at a sub frame level and fcpx is snapping to the nearest frame, which it has always done. Only audio can be cut sub-frame.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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It a not normal. Normally fcpx would rename the clip under the hood on import so you’d get mvi0022.mov, mvi0022(1).mov, mvi0022(2).mov, etc. And as Bret said, for fcpx to substitute a different file, they would have to be identical to each other in terms of frame rate, length and audio channels.
Bret’s suggestion is definitely worth a try.
Are the files internally or externally managed? How are you moving the projects to the new library?
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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How are you slowing the clip down? Choose the Retime icon below the viewer, then from the pop up menu, choose “Automatic Speed”. The clip should now be playing back all 60 frames in slow motion.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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You can’t edit and re-render without losing some quality, that’s just how it works no matter what the source files, but it’s virtually lossless. You’d have to do that many times over to see the difference between the original and the re-rendered version.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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That’s correct. Otherwise Final Cut has no way of knowing they’re supposed to be part of the same angle instead of individual angles.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
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if you get multiple angles instead of just two, make sure you’ve updated the clip info to include the angle each belongs to. Eg the long clip as angle 1 and the other three are angle 2. Select them, create a Multicam clip, sync by whatever means appropriate. You should have two angles, one of which will have multiple clips and gaps.
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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland