[Michael Brown]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for responding! Not much more going on for FCP7 on this forum apparently ???? To start off by answering your question, just about everything I had that would give me ProRes, including EditReady, Streamclip, Wondershare, and Compressor. This morning my DP came with the Lumix and I was relieved to see that the files played fine on the camera. My nightmare week-end was over! When I converted with Editready (which it recognized and converted), all I had was a black frame and the sound.

But in QT I had the oddest thing: a thumbnail showing the 1st frame of the GoPro that we were running at the same time, with my DP in front of it when he turned it on. When trying to play the file in QT, it was this crazy freeze frame with a bunch of horizontal pixel groups all over the frame. It still beats me, but apparently the WiFi and/or Bluetooth functions of the Lumix were communicating with the GoPro! A total mystery to this day.

After intensive research on the web, I finally stumbled over and purchased Aiseesoft Video Converter and whaddya know? It worked perfectly. So I’m back on the right track and happy.

Too bad even the brand new GoPro 7 Black (not to mention any other video camera I’ve dealt with) is not capable of keeping sound in sync. You lose a good 3 to 4 frames by the end of every file. No problem for me because I marked slates and rolled good sound separately, but it’s always a nuisance to have to edit into your camera-sound in order to keep it in sync.

Cheers and many thanks again for your interest. Best from Hamburg,

Michael

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Robert,

I can almost guarantee you that you can run 7 on Yosemite just fine. I do so on a 2015 27″ iMac with no glitches I can think of, even with multi-screen editing up to 9 sources (albeit in that case I break my video files down to ProRes Proxy for smooth playback). But I haven’t tried Sierra on it and I’m not about to. If need by, I’ll partition as well.

Thanks to all for the useful thread!

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Warren, Question: should I export just the subtitle track of my sequence to a QT file and upload that to youtube? And if so, will youtube provide me with an .srt file with both timecodes AND text (and eventually color/typeface settings etc.) or only timecodes?

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Nick, what a headbanger! Does that mean I have to copy/paste my subs from Boris into simple text clips all the way through and try to export that sole track to XML? Do you know of a way of converting Boris clips into Text clips directly (by selecting all of them for ex?)

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Warren, I’m trying to export the FCP subtitles to .srt. I wrote the subs in FCP on an individual video track.

I really have a hard time inagining how a youtube app can understand the necessary information to create an srt file; face type, color, in and out tc’s, line, center or left or right alignement change etc… Can you fill me in on how the app can analyze so much from just a video file.

Thanks for your reply, looking forward to hearing from you.

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Andreas,

I tried to download your TitleExchange, but I get the follwoing message:

“Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers.”

Yes, I am on FCP 7.03 on OS Yosemite.

Do you know why?

Thanks for your support.

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Nick and good people,

Who knows how to work with this the other way around?

In other words, how can I export subtitles created in FCP 7 (on an individual track with Text or Boris Text) to an .srt file for festival purposes) I’m looking at a 55 min. timeline.

Thanks for suggestions, best from Hamburg,

Michael

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Rossella, I too have stayed on Yosemite precisely for that reason. I never tried FCP 7 on Sierra, because the forums usually claimed it not run “dependably”. Since I don’t have your software issues, I don’t need to upgrade my OS, but thanks for the post, so I’ll know for future reference.

Michael from Hamburg.

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Shane, thanks, that’s super helpful.

Now one more question, I hope not idiotic:

When, using EditReady, I export an MTS file to ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT and ProRes 422 Proxy, I get 3 files of drastically different sizes (using same frame size and frame-rate btw). The Proxy will weigh in at about twice the size of the MTS, the LT about 4 times that size, but the ProRes 422 at around 7 times.

There is this theory that putting a file into a larger container doesn’t change the amount of information pertinent to that file, it only puts it into a larger container. What’s-his-name-again (an editor in LA) used the example of pouring a glass of egg-nog into a pitcher, all you get is the same egg-nog in a larger container. Which means that my file isn’t going to look any better by putting it into a larger container, right?

So why does the 422 weigh in at almost twice the size of the LT? Are the rest of all those bytes just the empty container space???

Thanks for the lesson ????

best from Michael.

Michael Brown

[Michael Brown]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for your quick reply ???? I used EditReady for all the transcoding, as I find it the smoothest, most dependable and convenient app for that purpose. I always have such a battle with compressor, frankly. So yes, I get it, and I’ll do it the long and hard way.

One last question: what if I’m expected to deliver a broadcast file for a European TV channel? Would you suggest I use LT and export in the best possible conversion, and what would that be? Would I end up with 30Gb file that no one can handle? Or do I need to re-encode and relink my footag yet again? I guess that’ll depend on their requirements, but I can see it coming.

Best and many thanks again.

Michael

Michael Brown