[Paul Aspuria]

All you need to do is set up a project sequence to 25fps. Then drop your clips into the Project area. Then FCPX will automatically perform the pulldown. Unless you’ve disabled the Background Render then you’ll need to render it. Also you shouldn’t have to touch the field dominance because it determines that for you. If go to check the clips attributes in the inspector it will still show you that the clip is interlaced. It only does the pulldown in the Project Area. If you go to the Project Library window that list all the projects then you can see quickly if the project’s frame rate is correct. If you don’t believe me export the Project and check in quicktime to verify that the interlacing is gone and frame rate is correct.

I guess the issue now is if you work in the compound clip method of editing and avoid creating Projects then you might want to do the conversion (pulldown) in JES or Compressor before importing into FCPX. I tend to do the pulldown beforehand in Compressor. It doesn’t take that much time from what I’ve seen. Or you could copy your edit into new Project once you’re done but that could cause some other issues.

I hope this helps.

Happy Editing!

[Paul Aspuria]

This article been posted here before but check it out and I think it answers your questions.

https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/in-action/electric/

Of course it’s a 60 min show. One thing you need to be careful with is using plugins. I’ve noticed certain plugins can cause projects issues. Just make duplicates of edits periodically or use that new Pro Versioner to make backups. I’ve cut a feature on it in ProRes444 worked out fine for me.

The key thing is organization. It keeps the projects running smoothly.

In terms of cutting, I love the fluidity of the interface. I work with Premiere and FCP7 daily for my job but I love how FCPX works. I wish they would add a machine with FCPX because from what I see it’s more then capable to working on most of the jobs. It’s funny how a lot of people have missconception and haven’t even touched it. First thing they say, “Wow you can edit on it.” They acted surprised that it even works.

Anyways, happy cutting on whatever you decide to use.

-p

[Paul Aspuria]

Works pretty much like before. It has the neat video interface to select noise sample. If you’re familiar with previous version then you’ll have no problem. Of course, you have to render but seems to chug along nicely. My normal process would be to apply the filter after completed edit or deactivate during editing.

[Paul Aspuria]

Hey Jim Giberti I had a similar problem with a project. I discover it was a some type of corrupt graphic element at the end of the edit. So I simply removed it and recreate it and everything worked fine.

Here’s one successful story out all the frustrating stories. A feature I’m working on that I transferred to X from 7. Just Won Best Feature Film at Uptown Film Festival. The crazy thing is I did a crazy reorder scene edits, scene trims, and some sound work 3 days before the screening. Moving scenes around like flash card. X with it’s compound clips worked wonderfully. I don’t think I would have completed that tasks of edits on 7 as fast. Of course, I needed to sleep afterwards.

Again I may have just been lucky on my FCPX journey so far. I’m sure I’ll be back to bitch about X as soon as I run into a wall.

Happy editing all!

[Paul Aspuria]

If you’re using the same settings why not compound the clips then EQ all of them at once.

[Paul Aspuria]

I guess you could just copy / paste contain of the compound clip to adjust then recompound it to keep it clean on the timeline. Not ideal but if you need to get things done. Compound clips still a mysterious beast. Awesome at times and puzzling others. Still better then working with nested clips in fcp7. Horrible.

Happy Cutting

[Paul Aspuria]

You may have slipped the compound clip by accident. Make sure all sequence inside the compound clip is all the way to the left. This should work.

Forgot one more thing you’ll need to slip the compound clip to the very head/beginning until it turns red to signal you’ve gone as far as you can.

Hope this help.

[Paul Aspuria]

Check inside that compound clip and see if there are clips that are out of the range of in and out points. Basically in the greyed out area. If there is then you need to remove the unused portions then the you can break apart. That’s the catch you can’t break apart if the contain is more the area on the timeline. Hope this helps.

Happy cutting

[Paul Aspuria]

Hey Bill,

I’m been avid visitor of the this forum. Been using FCPX since the release. I do agree that FCPX is very picky on the organization of projects. I currently, moved a indie feature I’m editing from 7 to 10. Why you say? I was comfortable enough with X to try. Plus, I wanted to be able to refer back to the original raw files a little easier. Before I got on board as editor the files were transcoded to ProRes4444 which was crazy for H.264 files. Initial the transfer went well using 7toX app but as soon as I started to moving files around manual and duplicating projects without thinking the system started to bug out. I’ve spent the last 3 day reorganizing my files. Now I have everything very organized. FCPX is purring like a kitten hot knife thru butter. Big lesson be very organized and if you’re moving large amount of files or transcoding do it after hours so you don’t keep stopping processing in the middle.

-P