[Paul Figgiani]

Thanks, Jeff.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Andy and Andreas,

Refresh my memory –

In FCP 7, how would you designate the difference between a Sequence marker and a Clip marker? If I remember correctly you need to either click the timeline Ruler or select a Sequence clip. Yes? If you forget to do one or the other … your markers may end up where they were not intended.

Point is I don’t see why making sure the Adjustment Layer is selected would be that big of a deal. Not saying it’s the most elegant solution. but it works.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Add a gap clip to the beginning of the Storyline. Connect an Adjustment Layer to it. Drag the Adjustment Layer through the duration of the Storyline.

Now add Markers to the Adjustment Layer. Use Index to navigate.

https://fcpx.tv/Pages/timelinemarkers.html

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

I agree with Mark Dobson. $6K base? No way.

There are a ton of people out there (like me) hanging on to legacy MacPros running FCPX that have been waiting for apple to offer a new MacPro. If they price the new model at $5-6K out of the box – they will loose a ton of potential buyers.

I realize what has been noted regarding the retail prices of the high end components. I’m sure apple has worked out deals with the chip makers. I also think apple dropped the price of FCPX to $300 in order to make it accessible to a much wider user base. If they optimize the MacPro to run X, it would make sense to at least offer BTO options and keep things reasonable.

I’m betting you will see a base model that will blow away my 2006 MacPro checking in at the $3K range. I’ll be happy with that …

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

T,

I’m open to better ways of doing this!

Thanks for getting involved …

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Ok.

You exported your 5.1 mixdown, yes? What I would do is open that file in Audition. In the File Inceptor – right + click on it and press “Extract Channels to Mono Files.” Then save those out individually.

Back in FCP X – Import the Multichannel file and the 6 individual surround files. That is the 7 files that I am referring to.

Then append the 7 files into a copy of the original project. Of course you would first need to remove all the previous instances of the audio files.

This is what the Timeline should look like:

Once you are set up as above, you can follow my original instructions and export your 8 channel file.

As far as the custom Roles, after creating them – assign them by selecting each new clip that you imported into your Event. There is a Roles Popup located in the Info Pane in the Inspector. You want to do this *before* you append the clips to the Timeline.

You with me?

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

Scot,

Happy to help.

What I’m showing you in that snapshot is the Roles view in the Timeline Index. It’s to the left of the Timeline. There’s a button located at the very bottom left of the FCPX UI (next to the Project Library button) that will toggle it’s visibility.

The Index is displaying predefined custom roles that I created for the channel assets. Do you know how to do this? (Modify menu/Edit Roles). Once you create them, there are various ways to assign them to your clips …

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

so couldn’t I export out just the audio as a 5.1 and then just the audio as a stereo mix and bring both of those in, lay them down in the timeline, assign the roles Surround & Stereo, export it as you stated with roles?

Yes. This should work. You’ll need to pull in a stereo mix and each mixed down surround channel as independent mono segments. Then assign your roles, assemble, and export as I described above.

-paul.

[Paul Figgiani]

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/20906

[Paul Figgiani]

Scot,

This is how I would do it:

Export your 5.1 audio mix as a multichannel file. Do this using Compressor, like this:

Next, import that multichannel audio file into your 5.1 FCPX Event and add to Timeline. You should now have 7 audio segments in Timeline (L, R, C, LFE, LS, RS, and multichannel file).

Here is how I assign Roles:

Now you are ready for export. So Share/Master File. Set Export up as follows. Of course this is specific to how I named my Roles:

You’re telling FCP to export the Six Channel Mix and include the Multichannel asset as a stereo pair.

Take a look at the resulting file attributes:

Multichannel:

Stereo:

Here’s the 8 channel file in Audition:

That should do it. There may be a better way. It’s how I do it …

-paul.