Michael Garber
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Did you try using Remaster, which comes with Cineform suite? You can make the conversions to ProRes with that program and I saw absolutely no difference between the two frames. Also you never answered – how much GoPro footage will you be dealing with?
Also, with Remaster, you can feed it the original MP4 files straight from the GoPro. No need to transcode to Cineform.
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Just curious. How much gopro footage is there?
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Just tried Remaster – there is no gamma change when converting to LT.
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You can also try 5DtoRGB. I know a lot of people like it when converting from GH2 or 5D footage to Prores. It does some filtering on the red channel, I believe, so that you get a better conversion from 420 to 422.
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This is by no means scientific, but I just did a quick test with some 2k GoPro footage. I found that I was able to get a better grade on the footage doing the grade in X on the original MP4 vs using Cineform, applying a LUT and then importing to X/color correcting in X.
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You can download a free demo of the pro and premiere versions. of Cineform Studio
I’m new Cineform Studio, but it seems that you use the app to convert the MP4 into the Cineform codec. Then you apply LUTs within Cineform Studio. You can import those files into FCPX and change the LUTs within Cineform. Those changes seem to update immediately in FCPX.
Michael Garber
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If your system is fast enough, you could choose to not transcode. Just edit with the native MP4s. I’ve been doing that lately and it’s been fine. I start a project next week that’s shot entirely with GoPro (approx 10 hrs) and I don’t plan on transcoding unless the timeline really bogs down.. We’ll have to start editing immediately.
FCPX will transcode to LT if you want to make proxies of the footage. But it will be at 960×720. You could do that and copy all those files elsewhere to become your new masters if the smaller raster size is ok for you.
Or, you could have FCP do the transcode to full ProRes and then use Compressor to transcode those into ProRes LT. I would assume Compressor would get the gamma right on a Prores to Prores conversion.
Have you tried Adobe Media Encoder or Episode? I know there can be a gamma shift with AME. There’s also the pro version of Cineform which might transcode to Prores.
Is space the only reason why you want to use LT? How much footage do you have? According to AJA Data Calc, there’s a 12GB difference between 1 hr of LT and 1 hour of ProRes 422.
Even if your system is fast enough to deal with M4Vs or mixed codecs, you might find the process of editing to go smoother if everything is in the same codec. This might become more apparent as your timeline gets complicated.
Michael Garber
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I second what Jeremy said. Are you using any compound clips that refer to a timeline of that length? I’ve read that this could be a source of the problem. In that case, the copy-paste workaround seems to be the solution.
On rare occasions, I’ve fixed issues like this by expanding all the clips to reveal the audio. Sometimes audio on a clip can extend past the end of a timeline. You won’t see it unless it’s expanded.
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Oliver-
Curious to know how favorites are getting in the way on the feature? How are they slowing the process down for you?
Michael Garber
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No, you can’t favorite clips in the timeline. You could make a compound clip of everything in the timeline and then favorite those sections of the compound clip in the event browser. After editing those favorites from the compound clip into the timeline, you could then break them apart (or not). However, I wouldn’t recommend doing it this way.
Like Bill, I would opt to follow the built-in workflow and use the event browser to favorite clips. It’s a much cleaner approach. Then filter the view by Favorites only (ctrl-f). To see all specific clips together, give them a common keyword.
When using favorites, I treat them more like circled takes. I no longer use them as faux subclips or like extended marker ranges. Their purpose is solely to make something stand out.
I recommend using the Reject clip command (delete), as well. It gets unnecessary clips or ranges of clips out of the way.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company
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