Michael Hancock
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You either need to modify your Library Storage Location settings before you make your proxy footage, or you didn’t put FCPX into Proxy mode on the second computer.
The easiest way to do what you’re wanting it to set up your project on your first computer. Import all of your footage. Change your Library Storage location for Media to In Library. Select all of your footage and transcode it to Proxy. Now all of your original media is stored and linked from where it originally was, but your Proxy media is stored in your library, so you can take just the library to another system, switch to Proxy mode, and edit away.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Still, is all of that functionality created equal in all devices? ☺
“LOL. That’s the beauty of standards – there are so many to choose from!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It seems like this would make it very difficult to grade in HDR since there’s such a wide discrepancy in display options, meaning some HDR sets get much much brighter than others.”
My understanding of this is that there is tone mapping that happens on the display side based on metadata in the file. If you grade your video on a 1,000nit monitor there is a flag in the file that it’s graded for 1,000 nits. If you play it back on a 300 nit monitor the display sees “This is designed for 1,000 nits, adjust accordingly” and your 300 nit display will remap the image to fit, as best it can, the 1,000 nit grade into the 300 nit space.
That’s my very basic understanding of how the wide discrepancies between HDR monitors is being handled. And of course, like in all situations like this – trust a calibrated monitor in your suite and let the chips fall where they may when your video is released into the wild.
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In Photoshop CC2018, choose FIle–>Export–>Layers to Files. Set up your options as you want (I recommend exporting as PNG-24 with transparency, untick the Trim option).
This will export each layer in your Photoshop file as a png. Import all those into FCPX and stack them up.
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Is your multicam window set to show only 2 angles?
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[Ernie Munick] “s there a proper, or even possible, workflow for adding a 60fps clip to a 30fps project, WITHOUT having to conform the 60fps to 30fps; the idea was to have smoother results with action footage at 60fps. Wouldn’t conforming defeat the purpose?”
Do you want the 60fps to play back at 50% speed, so it matches the 30fps timeline but isn’t dropping every other frame? If so, drop the clip into your timeline and under your Retime options pick Automatic Speed. It will automatically retime your 60fps to play back at a 1:1 frame match, so if you’re in a 30fps timeline it will slow it down by 50%.
If you’re going to be doing this a lot, I recommend mapping Automatic Speed to your keyboard. It will save you a lot of time.
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Here’s Ty’s pic.
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You could also set up an Automator action to convert everything to JPEG. Then you just drag and drop your PSD files on the automator and it converts in the background. No need to even open Photoshop.
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Great news! And don’t forget to file a bug report with Apple!
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That did it! I owe you a drink of your choice.
I moved the Blackmagic codec to the desktop and restarted the software and now everything is being read correctly. Bizarre that it’s affecting the software like that. And so far having it removed doesn’t seem to affect the functionality of the software.
Thanks Jeremy!
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