Robin S. kurz
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[Craig Schober] “I’ve already successfully created a 7.1 mix from the original stereo tracks and included it in a quicktime file.”
Sorry for the confusion, but FCP doesn’t do 7.1, “only” 5.1. I merely meant that if it were “5.1 + stereo left + stereo right” that would make 7.1, but the Ls and Rs channels are of course included in the regular 5.1 mix. 😉
[Craig Schober] “if I’m rejected from iTunes submission because it’s not “true” 7.1 surround.”
Somehow I can’t imagine that being the case. I know of enough films in the Store that most definitely were not professionally mixed in any version of Surround, so I highly doubt that’s something to be worried about (as a potential rejection factor). Since that would also mean a complete remix of e.g. every Hitchcock movie ever made or any movie made before 1982 for that matter, before if could be accepted. Can’t see that happening. 😉
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[Michael Garber] “I believe you might have had a range selected on those clips before you made the multiclip.”
That’s the only thing I could imagine is going on also. To be sure that that is in fact NOT the case, I would redo from the filmstrip view and make sure (as Michael pointed out) that none of the clips in fact have an active selection range, other than the entire clip of course.
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Are you choosing “Consolidate Media” for the library AFTER the copy from within FCP (the only way you should be doing it btw)?
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This is certainly not something you’d want to do in Motion, no. Motion is by no means an NLE. If anything, then you would simply make TEMPLATES of any needed specialty titles/title animations and publish them to FCP for further customisation as needed. For example if there is a default title template that you like, but just need a few tweaks, simply open a copy in Motion with a simple right-click on it in FCP, make the needed changes and save. That’s why it works the way it works. 😉
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[Craig Schober] “(5.1 + stereo left + stereo right)”
That would of course be 7.1. 😉
The question is whether the additional channels in fact HAVE to have something in them? Can’t you just simply switch the project to surround and export that? That would be 5.1, just the LFE and rear channels would be silent.
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[Pete Johnson] “Actually I believe that the reason he hasn’t upgraded is because FCPX is working fine for him and he doesn’t want to upset that. I know in the audio world the saying was never upgrade right away and if it’s not broke then don’t fix it, I have a friend in Phoenix that has a buddy that still uses Logic 5.5 (because it works well for him).”
Generally a legitimate point, sure. If that’s the case, okay. But e.g. Logic 5.5 is/was also a much more mature software in comparison to its most current counterpart than FCP X is/was. And we’re talking *two years* of additional development for said “immature” software, which is a lot, particularly for an effectively v1.0 app. I get not wanting to do the BIG jumps right away (i.e. 10.0 to 10.1), but missing out on the smaller incremental ones that really only introduced speed, stability and bug-fixes are imho a must if you’re earning a living with it (and you of course aren’t in the middle of a project at that moment). Especially since the further away you get, the harder the step becomes. For one you’ll have that many more projects to update.
And not drooling over and desperately wanting the new media management/library structure in comparison is also weird. 😉
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[Jan Franzen] “No I don’t know what mm utility is”
Sorry, that was short for Magic Mouse. And a utility such as “Magic Prefs”.
[Jan Franzen] “I have Mavericks and running 10.1.3 . With tapping I mean just slightly double tapping on top not pressing a double click.”
Yes, that’s what I understood. Only it does not do that here, nor have I ever seen it do that.
EDIT: okaaaaay… NOW I know what you’re talking about! Sorry, my bad. First off I thought we were talking about the VIEWER not the timeline (no idea why) and secondly I didn’t have the “Smart Zoom” option activated in the Mouse system settings! After activating it… yes, you’re right! I’m amazed I hadn’t seen or heard of that yet. Good point! And yes, now that I know of it, that’s certainly something Kristian will want to check. Cheers!
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[Jan Franzen] “Double tap on magic mouse is zoom to fit.”
Certainly not by default. Not in FCP X. I suspect you have some sort of MM-utility installed?
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[Andy Neil] “Premiere handles H264 better only when it can leverage the Mercury playback engine.”
I beg to differ from experience. Given FCP X, OpenCL 2.0 and a meaty GPU, it will easily outperform PPro. If you have dual GPUs it will smoke it.
[Enrico Lappano] “I’m running on a MacPro, around 5 years with 2.66 GHz Quad-Core, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 memory and still on Snow Leopard (Version 10.6.8). How is that? Too old? Is it worth also updating it to Maverick?”
As it’s been said, that would in fact be a must, yes. As long as it’s not a 2008 machine that shouldn’t be a problem. Stocking up on RAM certainly wouldn’t be a bad idea either. And pretty much every current NLE is extremely *GPU* centric, so the more you have in that dept. the better also. But at some point I’d say you’ll have to ask yourself if not a whole new machine, even if it’s “just” an upper-end iMac isn’t in fact the better and overall much more efficient alternative. Depending on what you have planned for your production future. 😉
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As with most things, it depends primarily on YOUR COMPUTER i.e. it’s CPU and most of all GPU punch. Meaning that if it isn’t exactly 5+ years old, it should work just dandy. Either way there’s no reason why it should perform any worse (if anything then much better) than PPro. But since H.264 is a long GOP format, transcoding to ProRes for editing (which happens optionally in the background as you work) is not a bad idea, simply to reduce the overhead load on the system. Again, regardless of which NLE you are using.
Either way, you should definitely check out as much training as you can BEFORE you get into the deep and dirty of X. Simply because if you’re coming from 7 there are various things you need to know to not get horribly frustrated within the first 10 minutes of using it. It IS different. But most definitely in a GOOD way. Only you need to know and understand the basics to appreciate that. If english is your language, I highly recommend checking out Ripple Training for that. But if even a mere 50 bucks is too much for you (though well worth it), then google e.g. Izzy’s tutorials.