John Rofrano
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[Gary Huff] “But I’m pretty sure he was referring to ingesting AVCHD into FCPX to begin with, because that is the current point of contention.”
No, that’s not what I meant. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was referring to FCP X export from the timeline which would be a render and not a re-wrap.
I was further stating that it wouldn’t even be AVCHD anymore. It would just be a rendered QuickTime file with some form of AVC/H.264 in it that wasn’t AVCHD compliant.
I agree that on ingestion the files are simply re-wrapped.
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[Michael Paul] “So why do you use FCPX? What are your reasons? What’s great about it?”
I use FCP X because the magnetic timeline is absolutely brilliant once you understand it. It’s a completely new way to approach story telling. A primary storyline that drives forward with secondary storylines that support the primary story. THAT is how I want to think about the story that I am telling. Tracks do NOTHING to help me tell a story except get in the way. After editing with the magnetic timeline, I would never use an NLE that was track based again. It’s just a strange way to approach an edit now.
The problem with other NLEs is that, in an effort to give editors something familiar (e.g., razor blades, bins, etc.), they have limited themselves to what the physical world can do. If early software developers designed the word processor the same way that Avid and Adobe (and others including FCP 7) approached the NLE, your computer would ring a bell when you reach the 72nd character of a line and you’d have to press return before character 80! You would also be reaching for the White-Out icon to fix your mistakes, and you would be manually adding another piece of digital paper when you got to the bottom of the page. Making a computer act like a typewriter would have been a very bad idea but that’s essentially what developers did with video editing software.
Apple has re-imagined how telling a story with video should be and once you understand their new approach, you will see how much more productive you can be. If you try and fight it and use FCP X like track-based NLEs you will be very unhappy and frustrated with it.
With FCP X you need to unlearn as much as you need to learn. You need to open your mind to the fact that emulating physical bins may not be the best approach when you can use metadata tagging to group and find media effortlessly with smart collections. When I drag an interview section to someplace else on the timeline and the lower thirds and cut-aways that are connected clips move with it without me thinking or grouping or ungrouping or anything, and media in the new timeline location just moves out of the way to make room for the new video, I wonder why anyone would want to worry about tracks and making holes and making sure that you don’t hide edits under other edits.
So I edit with FCP X because it’s an extremely productive way to work, and telling stories with tracks that I need to manage seems archaic to me now. It’s not for everyone… some writers still use typewriters. 😉
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AVCHD is a very specific subset of the MPEG4/AVC H.264 specification. The only way that FCP X could re-wrap any video is if the specifications of the source file matches the specifications of the target file exactly. Considering that I don’t even see any way to generate an AVCHD file with both video and audio from FCP X or Compressor 4, I’m going to say with some certainty that the QuickTime file FCP X produces will definite be a render and not a re-wrap and will not conform to the AVCHD specification of the source.
If you just want to rewrap AVCHD files buy EditReady. It works wonderfully at doing this. Worth every penny.
~jr
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You’re welcome. I’m glad I could help you stay young! 😀
~jr
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[Scott Witthaus] “I respectfully disagree. Between the built-in CC and tools like Color Finale, you can do a whole helluva lot.”
+1
Color Finale ROCKS! If you don’t have it… get it. You may never have to leave FCP X to color grade again.
~jr
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[Barnaby Winser] “The “insert text media” button appears to be blanked out and therefore does nothing when clicked in Sony Vegas. Can I fix this?”
Try selecting a Video track. You have an Audio track selected which is why all of the video menu options are grayed out. (i.e., you cannot insert Text Media on an audio track) The menu items are sensitive to the track that you have selected.
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It looks like you are trying to edit at the sub-frame level which is impossible. There is nothing shorter than 1 frame.
Make sure that you have Options | Quantize to Frames Alt+F8 enabled at all times when editing video. Otherwise you may encounter this sub-frame problem.
~jr
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You can try here:
https://download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/
If it isn’t there and the links in your Sony account don’t work you are out of luck. Send a request to MAGIX support.
~jr
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Sounds like it could feasibly be legitimate. I went to the web site and it looks like a Sony site. They even have a downloadable app on Google Play and the iTunes App Store. It might be real but it’s up to you to determine if you want to sign up. I would just ignore it.
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Hard to say. Where are you from? Sony ANZ is Sony Australia and New Zealand. Do you have any reason to believe that Sony Australia would know about you? (like you live there?) Unless you care about joining a Sony portal, just delete the email and move on.
~jr
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