[Mark Smith]

One device I hav shows up in the list. The panasonic 2500 DV deck connects with iMovie but not with FCPX which is weird. The signal over DV is pretty iffy with lots of dropped frames , yet monitoring the playback over video shows a solid picture. Gosh it really seems like FCPX cut the cord with tape based capture and for the most part left it behind.

[Mark Smith]

This is a great feature request : A one button “picture lock” for a project file. D’oh why didn’t I think of that?

[Mark Smith]

Canon does not actually output a ’24P ‘ stream over HDSDI or HDMI because there is no standard for such a thing. It will record 24P to internal cards on either the C100 or C 300.
This discepancy between what is recorded internally and what comes out the external connectors has been a little bit of an issue with external recorders . I have a Pix 240 which can cremove pulldown frames but the set up is a ltittle tricky.

[Mark Smith]

So I ran a test and captured some SD material to pro res with BM ultra studio. All good so Far. With VCC open if I then add the file I’ve created to the VCC queue and select copy files, then create Virtual camera card I get a file structure that looks like this : screenshot2014-07-11at5.12.13pm.png

and then if I use the symbolic link option, I get a file that looks like this :
screenshot2014-07-11at5.11.54pm.png [x]

If I try to load the copy files version of the VCC, there is nothing to browse so VCC fails.

If I load the sum link version of VCC then I actually see the video and can select multiple ranges in the import window, however when I import those multiple ranges the clips appear in FCPX browser as images while importing but when the clips finish importing, the thumbnails turn black and there isn’t any video associated with the clips I just imported.

VCC seems its almost working for me but its not quite there yet. What could I be doing wrong?

[Mark Smith]

I’m on 10.1.2- the latest version. Something is definitely off with my files . I’m going to do some tests today to see if I can create a new .mov file from some other tape material I have and then use VCC to make the file a sparse bundle and see if that works .

[Mark Smith]

I tried your suggestion and that didn’t work either. The .mov’s I’m working with were created a few years ago so there may be some underlying quicktime issues that aren’t readily apparent. I’m going to try a few more tests tomorrow.

[Mark Smith]

I downloaded VCC and created a sparse bundle from a .mov. FCPX sees the sparse bundle as a camera archive, but when I try to import clips from the sparse bundle , FCPX doesn’t see any clips, the import window just shows black screen in the viewer where I should see the clips.

I did try selecting a . mov in the import window with the intention of creating a camera archive, but the button to create camera archive is dimmed, so I’m not allowed to do that,

Hmm

[Mark Smith]

I don’t know if this still applies but FCP7 didn’t work so well with large jpegs or tiffs. It was better with png’s.
I’ve been throwing together tome time-lapse time lines in X with hundreds to thousands of 5 -7 mb jpg stills and it really has been painless, I have to say.
I’m working on either a Mac mini with 16 gigs of ram or an iMac with the same amount of ram.

[Mark Smith]

In my experience with P2 in FCPX – it works the same as every file based camera original I’ve used. Disclaimer: I ‘ve only used Canon XF, P2, AVCHD, P2, and Pro Res from a Pix 240, but yeah, it works the same as all those.

[Mark Smith]

Agreed about connection management. That was the stickiest thing for me to deal with in learning X. I jet watched my wife, who was one of those ” they will pry FCP7 from my cold dying hands” people transition to X. Managing connections was her biggest headache to learn, and unlearning stacking up tracks like she would do in 7 took a while unlearn.
She’s a far happier camper now that she knows how to move things around quickly and her time lines are much more simple than when she started out. I like that once you get the idea, X is a far better organizational system and the app sort of gets out of your way and lets you get on with what you are there to do, which is the creative work of editing.