Robin S. kurz
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[Carla Cherry] “I copied it to move to my drive. I must have accidentally included the clips b/c the library file is now 88gigs.”
I don’t get it. How are you going to be able to work with the project WITHOUT the clips?? I also don’t see how a file can suddenly blow up in size to that extent by simply COPYING it. Either the library had the files in it or it didn’t. In which case it’s obviously going to be the same size no matter where it is. There’s no magical way the library is going to copy external files by itself by simply moving it.
Selecting the library and looking in the Library Properties tab in the Inspector will tell you exactly how much footage is related to it and where it is. You also want to watch the first three clips here to understand more of the details (even though they pertain to PRE 10.1.2, so before everything changed a little more, but the basic concept is the exact same): https://www.rippletraining.com/fcpx-features.html
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[Morten Slemdal] “My main output will be tv.”
Via WHAT exactly?
[Morten Slemdal] “when I share to dv, it will be one field only”
No. If you are viewing it with the QT Player it is only DISPLAYING one field unless you change it. That’s simply a legacy, codec specific “feature” from waaaaay back when computers even had a hard time playing back DV (and to keep people from complaining about supposed crappy quality because of the fields).
[Morten Slemdal] “guide me so I can get a good quality film on my tv from my mac.”
Again… that’s complete dependent on HOW you are getting it on your TV. Apple TV? DVD? Bluray? USB stick? What? But again… both a DV as well as a ProRes export will generally be just fine for further processing.
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[Morten Slemdal] “I tried to make a master, with prores 422, and that came out crappy. I redid it with DV, and that came out fine.”
Technically they’re both the exact same. So the question is what are you using to look at your exports? If e.g. with the QT 7 Player, DV is also shown with just one field and a “low quality” setting on playback, but in fact has both. A setting in the respective clip properties. ProRes will always show both fields if it has them, but it certainly won’t in fact look worse, assuming you turned on both fields in the DV clip also.
The only relevant question is where will the clip end up?? If going back to DV or DVD or any other source for playback ON A TV, then having fields is A GOOD THING. If going to e.g. Youtube or just your computer, simply export as PROGRESSIVE in any given codec and it will look that same in each and every one. Since yes, interlaced material will look “crappy” on a progressive monitor.
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[Charlie Austin] “DV is interlaced and I’ve found that changing the project timebase to progressive (if it’s available) can help with this issue.”
Sorry, but that is clearly NOT something you want to be doing (and has nothing to do with your timebase). With that you are not solving anything, you’re only making things worse if anything. Since by doing that you are telling FCP to effectively misinterpret your footage and toss out one of the fields, which obviously is not of any benefit in terms of quality. Those “blurry lines” are simply the visible fields of the interlace, which is absolutely normal, since DV footage is always interlaced. I just have to wonder why you’re even seeing them though, since by default FCP does not show both fields in the viewer. So you must have changed it. You can turn that off by simply going into the viewer display menu and unchecking that option, if it bothers you so much.
There’s also no need to transcode, since FCP can edit DV natively which is fine quality-wise and of course MUCH smaller in size, too.
Once you export the clip(s) the fields will either be maintained (which they SHOULD be for e.g. DVD output!) or tossed if you export in any given progressive format such as Apple Devices, YouTube etc.
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Ah. Then I guess I’m a “visionary”, too. 🙂
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As far as deniosers are concerned, you might want to check out Photon Pro. It doesn’t have as many fiddly settings, sliders and graphs as Neat, but my unscientific comparisons show that it can hold up to Neat (is even better in some cases) and only costs a fraction of it.
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photon-pro/id912539173?l=en&mt=12
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There is no “Show duplicate frames” functionality in X (yet), no. If you’re looking for duplicate FRAMES you’re out of luck. If just looking for duplicate CLIPS then the timeline index is your friend.
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[Don Smith] “as the former Consolidate OUT.”
I’ve never seen a “consolidate out” command in X nor do I understand what it supposedly did.
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Good point, Bill.
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I’d recommend downloading FX Factory. It has a few very useful effects in that direction. Some even for free. Not anything you couldn’t do with Motion also, but obviously with far more effort and time involvement.
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