Michael Hancock
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[Tangier Clarke] “Do you think that higher education institutions not offering FCP X as a part of their academic tool set is a disservice and affects market penetration of FCP X? “
Might be a disservice to the students. But if the school finds that 80% of the jobs their students are being hired into are Avid or Premiere they are better serving their students by teaching them that, so students are more marketable.
It’s not the schools jobs to affect the market penetration of FCPX. That’s Apple’s job.
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Michael Hancock
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Unfortunately, no.
And I really hope someone smarter than me posts that I’m wrong and tells us how to do it! But I have never figured out how to do it.
The workaround is to select the clip in your timeline, copy, replace, paste attributes. But if you have used the speed blade tool to create custom ramps and stuff – that doesn’t copy over.
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Michael Hancock
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I assume the footage is from an Arri camera? If so:
Download the Arri Color Tool.
https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/tools/arri-color-toolOpen the footage in the Arri Color Tool and you can apply the .aml file to it. Then you can export a LUT from the Arri Color Tool, which FCPX can use.
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Michael Hancock
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Yes, FCPX can do this (the top picture, from Premiere) but only with the mouse. If you want to slip/slide/trim frame by frame using the keyboard you do not get a 2-up display with outgoing/incoming frames. It’s only if you use the mouse and drag to do your trimming. And there is no 4-up display like Avid.
PLEASE send Apple a feature request to add the incoming/outgoing when trimming with the keyboard. I’ve sent the request a few times. If enough of us request it they might listen!
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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Michael Hancock
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Try holding Cmd+Option when launching FCPX, and choose to delete your preferences when asked. Let us know if that fixes it.
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Michael Hancock
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Edit in the Custom generator under your video. Open inspector and click the color, then click the eyedropper to select a color and click the background of your product shot.
To really sell it, after you scale down your product shot, you might need to apply a mask to the product shot and feather it out so it blends into your solid colored background better. Unless your product shot background is 100% consistent in luminance and color – then you should be able to get away with just scaling the product shot down.
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Michael Hancock
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Are they all in separate sequences (projects)?
If they are, you can select all the sequences (projects) in the browser and batch export (File–>Share Projects–>Compression Setting). You’ll want to pick a compression setting that is a low res h264 file. You may need to import one from Compressor.
If they are all in one sequence and you want to export each one individually, there is no easy way to do this. You can mark In/Out on each one and send to compressor, which will honor your In/Out marks. But you will have to manually mark IN/Out on each video and send each one to compressor individually.
Another option, if all 84 videos are on one timeline, is to duplicate your timeline, then make a compound clip for each video on your timeline, then batch export all the compound clips from the browser.
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Michael Hancock
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No. Good feature request though.
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Michael Hancock
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[Tom Sefton] “and it works fine with the highest quality footage available,”
I’d say the missing word here is “today”. Works fine “today”. Who knows what is coming out tomorrow.
If nVidia works better with tomorrow’s footage then it would be preferable to have the option to just buy an nVidia card and keep working than wait for AMD to come out with a card that works as well, then wait for Apple to support that card.
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Michael Hancock
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The Slack notes were good today. They’re usually pretty clever, which means I actually read them (and update the app regardless).
Regarding FCPX – you can now execute a batch export to compressor using keyboard shortcuts and the app won’t crash to the desktop! Bug fixed!
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Michael Hancock
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