Kevin Rease
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Bart, did you apply a LUT to your footage? If so, did you apply it from LUT tab in your configuration screen? If so, this may be your issue. Apply the LUT from within the color window and you should be able to see your grades after rendering.
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You can add a clickable link via compressor. I’ve done it once before but I don’t remember how. I learned this through a compressor tutorial from Ripple Training.
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I’m not positive if you’ve found an answer to this question but I don’t think it’s an issue with FCPX but rather the card. If you go and switch your camera back to 48fps this should allow that media to be transferred to your system.
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“I’d My friend had to convert the files from the camera to Windows Media Player compatible clips, then I had to convert them over to my mac book pro using Smart Converter. From there, I just dragged the clips onto Final Cut.”
Why such a lengthy process for transcode? Why don’t you take the original files from the camera and use either log and transfer in FCP or mpeg streamclip (this is a FREE download) to convert to prores 422.
Once in prores 422, this should eliminate most of your issues.
What version of FCP do you have? If you have FCP 7 there is a preset in compressor for YouTube. If not, look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_501452&feature=iv&v=SeTbIkCE9uI&src_vid=8OnfLEDAcB4
this should help you get the best quality for your completed movie.
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H.264 is not an editing codec, it is a delivery codec. I don’t know how you’re bring your footage in but I’m going to GUESS that you changed your sequence setting to prores after bringing in the h.264 video.? The best way to get h264 in is via log and transfer, mpeg streamclip or some other 3rd party app to a flavor of prores. If you do it this way, I don’t think you’ll have the issue with the orange bar. That orange bar represents the unlimited real time playback for items that need rendering. If you use log and transfer, this should eliminate that issue all together.
The quality issue is most likely because your source file is still the HIGHLY COMPRESSED h.264 file. Again, transcode to prores and this should solve the issue.
Prores won’t “slowly kill your system.” What is actually killing your system is the resources it takes to playback the h.264.
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Hi Bryce
I am unaware of any other way or software to achieve this goal. Maybe another storage device with a HDMI output, with the proper card file structure on it? Sorry I can’t be more help on this front.
Kevin
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Final Cut will only allow mixed down stereo audio to be ingested via log and transfer. IF you can get those files back onto a card, you will need to have that card put back into the camera. Then log and transfer via HDMI out on your camera, hopefully the camera has HDMI out. To log and transfer via HDMI, you’ll have to go through an I/O device like the Matrox MXO2 that has HDMI inputs. This will allow for the separate audio channels to be seen by final cut. Otherwise, strictly through log and transfer FCP will only bring in stereo pairs.
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If you have the means to use log and transfer via an HDMI cable, you’ll be able to bring in at least 8 separate audio channels which should allow you to either bring just the ones you need or all of them, but they won’t be mixed into stereo pairs.
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Additionally, if this is a new drive OR you’ve only been using it to ingest smaller files, it may be improperly formatted. If that drive is formatted Fat22 this is the source of your problem and will need to be reformatted.
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Neal, do you have your video scopes open also? That option will not appear unless the scopes are open.