Jeff Kirkland
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Can’t answer the DISC question because I haven’t ever dealt with it but i can say, no you no longer have to use roles to create the extra audio tracks. FCPX takes the audio channels you have and then automatically adds extra silent channels as needed to make up the required number. This is four by default, so you’ll have to go into compressor and modify the preset to get eight channels.
For what it’s worth, just sent some files to Channel Seven here in Australia and they were happy with the MXF encoding straight out of FCPX.
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Right on time for me. I was just researching the best way to export an MXF out of FCPX and thinking it was going to be a fairly convoluted process when the update showed up. Perfect timing!
Of course I’ll hold off on the celebrations until I see what the network’s broadcast engineers have to say when they get a sample file tomorrow.
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This isn’t helping find a solution but for what it’s worth I’m regularly editing 1080p50 & 1080p25 MP4 from an XA20 and it’s performing flawlessly in FCPX 10.1.3 under Yosemite with a BMD ultrastudio mini-monitor / intensity pro on any of the three Macs (2006 Mac Pro, 2013 Mac Pro, 2012 iMac) in my office.
If you suspect the BMD device, I’d suggest completely uninstall the drivers, reboot, and see if playback improves.
I had some really weird playback issues and crashing with FCPX when I first upgraded to Yosemite that turned out to be caused by a USB 3 hub so don’t limit the diagnosis to just the obvious video related stuff.
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FCPX will deinterlace on export, or the better option might be to select the clips in the browser, go to the info panel and tell FCPX to deinterlace them before you start editing.
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Nope, that’s definitely not moire which is essentially an interference pattern created by sensors/codecs when small tight patterns (eg small checks on a shirt, bricks in the distance, etc) are shot.
What you have looks to be scan lines caused by flickering lights that are out of sync with your frame rate. Lots of the cheap LED light fixtures suffer from it.
Sadly, i don’t think there much you can do to fix it other than re-shoot.
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Yes, you can do that. Just set the dimensions to whatever you need when you create a project.
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the only thing I can think of is to double check that the footage and project are actually progressive. Those smaller Canon cameras tend to record PSF and FCPX often imports the footage as interlaced. I’ve been caught by that a couple of times if I forget to go to the info panel and set it to progressive.
If your feeling especially paranoid, you could check the footage properties in one of those many video info apps, or even just the QuickTime player’s info panel. And if all else fails, I’d possibly force the issue and reimport the master clip to a progressive timeline, tell FCPX to deinterlace it, and output it again.
On the other hand, it could just be the player, although I’ve never seen it happen unless there was actually something interlaced there. Try playing it in something like VLC or on a different machine.
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Hi Dave,
The right shutter speed really depends on the situation but a 90 degree shutter is a good starting point. So that’d be 120fps at 30p. Basically as far as you can push it without it looking too jerky. If the motion blur matters, there are plugins that can do a pretty good job of adding it back in post.
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[Bill Davis] “”Granted, FCP X was much more responsive but we just couldn’t get our heads around the GUI in fact, I wrote about this in an article  last year shortly after the debut.””
That comparison gets trotted out a lot but it just confirms my post above. They got a good result from the software they knew how to use and not so much from FCPX which they clearly didn’t understand.
[Bill Davis] “Probably time for someone with a quality green screen facility to see how the algorithms stack up – with the code as it exists in both programs today – if a useful contemporary comparison is the goal.”
I’d suggest it’s the fringe cases that really test a keyer. Luckily people seem to be very good at shooting bad chromakey footage so there’s no shortage of test material.
I’ve yet to find a one-size-fits-all keying solution but the keyer in FCPX comes mighty close. It’s rare I have to send any footage out to After Effects these days. Usually just the stuff that needs additional roto work.
Having shot similar footage a couple of years ago of someone signing that had to be keyed into the corner of a presentation, I can say FCPX will key it just fine. The real key to success is making sure its well lit and shot with the shutter speed high enough that there’s no motion blur on the signer’s fingers – otherwise it’s a nightmare no matter what keyer you use.
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You’d probably have to say which title effect you were using before we can give you any sort of answer. At a guess though, the animated title probably has a minimum duration it can animate over and you’ve made it too short.
Open the title in Motion and take a look. You can probably modify it and make a shorter version if needed.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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