[John Irvine]

Ah, I’ve discovered the problem – I wasn’t recording in BWAV (Broadcast Wave) on my Tascam unit. All sorted now, but it may be useful info for someone else.

John Paul Irvine
Forres
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Wow, thank you so much for all your help gentlemen! I’ll be looking into it over the next few weeks and will let you know how I get on.

Regarding Compressor – is it worth having? I would need to upgrade my OSX to the latest version (not a bad idea) and spend £50, but is it a more reliable platform for exporting and does it do DVD authoring?

Many thanks, John.

John Paul Irvine
Forres
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Hi – thanks for your suggestions and here’s an update to what could be a very lengthy process…

First, a little background to my footage. I filmed in 4k and V-Log gamma on my Panasonic GH5. The latter option I feel was a mistake – why didn’t I just use Cine-D, for instance (being greedy?). I then applied a Color Finale LUT in FCPX to all my clips (about 40 of them). I also did some additional effecting of some clips. Then I rendered everything.

Last night I removed all effects from my clips on the timeline and then tried burning a DVD file to my hard drive – hooray, it worked! Ah, but not quite: although it completed the process and said ‘Sharing successful’, the resultant video only plays for 40 minutes out of about 100. So it’s useless.

However, I now know that at least part of the problem lies with the effects on the clips. Can I burn the effects to the clips? I guess I would have to take each clip one at a time and export it as a new clip with effects burned in? Wow, that’s a big job and I’d lose all my edits!

So, it seems that FCPX is not fit for purpose. You create a big project and then it can’t handle it. How very unprofessional, I’d say. Does anyone have any experience of Apple’s Compressor software? Is that a more professional platform for exporting and DVD creation?

I look forward to any helpful responses (can you tell I’m somewhat disappointed with FCP?).

John Paul Irvine
Forres
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Well, I’m not one to hang about…. downloaded Preference Manager 4 and have now deleted my preferences…. so it’s now time to retry sharing. I’ll let you know how I get on.

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks, but no I haven’t tried trashing my preferences – what exactly does that mean / do?

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks, I’m thinking that I may never need to return to projects of two years ago anyway. Perhaps it’s time to delete them and make room for new stuff!

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks for the suggestion as I’m still having problems despite re-downloading the preference manager.
Should I delete the entire Render folder (which contains several other folders) or do I have to go into these sub-folders and delete their contents?

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks, I did that – still doesn’t work! In response to another forum I downloaded DR’s Preference Manager, which I executed to trash my FCPX preferences. I also, as he suggested, repaired my disk permissions. The same problem occurred. I decided to restart my Mac only to find that DR’s Preference manager had been removed from my dock and my applications folder! I remember having this freeware before and it disappeared in a similar way… any further ideas? Thanks

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

OK, so how do we get suggestions of improvements to the relevant team at Apple – do they watch this forum? Do they listen to any suggestions from ‘outside’…? I’m sure they must!

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Well, we get some pretty amazing skies where I live as it is! Keeping it real with this documentary clip I’m making 🙂

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland