Michael Hancock
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FCPX doesn’t support DNxHR. It supports DNxHD, but not HR. Submit a feature request to Apple asking them to implement support for HR. Or tell them to open up ProRes encoding on PCs. ☺ I’d be happy with either.
If I get DNxHR I have to run it through compressor or Resolve or Media Encoder to re-encode it to ProRes, so I can use it in FCPX. It’s a huge nuisance and Apple really needs to fix it.
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Michael Hancock
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[Thomas Mathai] “ProRes RAW could be preferable because Apple isn’t competing as a camera maker.”
But Apple is competing in the NLE market, so will we eventually be able to decode ProResRAW in anything other than FCPX?
I don’t think you’ll see wide adoption of ProResRAW If you can’t import and edit with it in Avid, Premiere, or Resolve. And the same is true of Blackmagic Raw. But I think Blackmagic will get it supported by at least Premiere and Avid relatively quickly, and it’s already in Resolve (naturally).
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[Tony Ellam] “Is there a way of opening an FCP X 10.4 library without it loading a project into the Timeline?”
No, unfortunately. Submit a feature request.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I have just started getting to MergeX. It is very cool and powerful. The newest version also handles Project and Roles and can “pass down” updated information from the Event to Projects, which is awesome.
“How well does this work? If I have everything in my events set as a dialogue role, do my edit, then go back to the event and properly set Music, SFX, Broll Audio, Dialogue, VO, Graphics, Logos, Titles, etc…., I can “update” my project and it will push all the new roles down? Because I’ve been making that feature request to Apple for years now!
Does it push subroles too?
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Michael Hancock
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[Scott Witthaus] “Allow Events to be grouped in folders”
YES! There’s already a Smart Collections folder at the root of the library. They need to expand that to include folders for events!
And I’d love to be able to pin an event (preferably in a different pane), so when I click on a different event I can still access the original one without having to Shift+Click them all. Tabbed events would be great, actually. One pane, pin the tabs so they stay open.
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From the Blackmagic website:
“Blackmagic RAW is the world’s only truly modern, high performance, professional RAW codec that is open, cross platform and free. The codec is supported via the free SDK on Mac OS, Windows and Linux systems. Best of all, there are no hidden licenses or ongoing fees. Blackmagic RAW has been designed to provide the industry with an open, elegant and standardized high quality image format that can be used across products and in customer workflows absolutely free!”
This is what ProResRAW should have been from day 1 if it wanted fast, widespread support/adoption.
[Craig Seeman] “If allowing BMD RAW into other cameras creates competition for BMD cameras it may mean Licensing is an alternate revenue stream. I don’t think they’re going to give that away. “
Go to 24:30 in the video. He says it may be possible to implement it in another camera, but doesn’t commit to it.
I’m about 99.99% certain I’ll get BlackmagicRAW files before I ever get ProResRAW. I downloaded the sample clips and have been playing with it a bit. It’s impressive.
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Michael Hancock
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The $10K price is referencing the Quadro RTX8000 with 48GB of VRAM. The cards are estimated to start at $2,300 with the RTX5000 (16GB).
Scroll down for pricing:
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-unveils-quadro-rtx-worlds-first-ray-tracing-gpu—————-
Michael Hancock
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I’m not sure. On the bottom of the Source Browser, tick the button for Link instead of Import. But either way, you should be seeing the MXF files, unless the card structure has been changed enough that it doesn’t recognize it as a proper card structure.
What camera is the raw footage from?
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Michael Hancock
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Those are the raw files, so that’s what you will want to import into Avid via the Source Browser. You got lucky that the director kept a copy of everything in its original file structure!
Also, in the Source Browser window in Avid, try clicking that little rectangle button on the top, just to the left of the text “1_backupUnorganized”. If you hover your mouse over the button it should identify it as “Enable to view folders as media volumes”.
I believe clicking this button will help Avid recognize the card structure so you don’t have to dive into the folder to find the footage files amongst all the .xml files and other folders the camera has made. It should present just the clips that Avid recognizes as media.
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Michael Hancock
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This is niiiiiiice. Looks like you can string Name and Notes and a few other things together too.
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Michael Hancock
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