[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Good suggestion. I tend to do that, but it takes up a lot of time and disk space. It definitely plays back better though. The problem is, it also seems to degrade the quality of the GoPro and drone footage.

I’m still curious though when the bottleneck is the disk speed. For all my years of editing, I’ve always assumed it was the CPU or GPU. But, I don’t really know how to tell when the culprit is elsewhere.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

That will be some work, but it’s doable. Thank you again very much!!

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thank you for this! And yes, the Canon files are named “00000.MTS” and go from here to “00083.MTS”. The original editor (I’m just trying to do some color and audio finishing) may have renamed the clips from the camera though. Regardless, when I open the XML into Resolve, the clips it shows for the project are all misnamed, duplicated, etc. Things like “Clip #83” kind of make sense b/c there are 83 total clips, but having multiple “Clip #83” files and other clips named things like “R1-T1” is bizarre to me. Also, when I try to relink these clips in the Media Pool to what I think would be their corresponding files, Resolve doesn’t even give me the option to relink, unlink, replace, etc the selected clip. Just as a test, I brought in of his original clips (ie not one of the offline clips created when I attempted the XML import) into the Media Pool, those options are there.

Short of bringing the editor into my studio to manually match up each file on the timeline, any other thoughts or possible solutions? POssibly adjusting some settings in FCPX for the XML export?

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Cool, thanks for that. But have you heard anything about AE6? Again, I don’t think I can upgrade to 6.5.
Thanks again for the help!