Ronny Courtens
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Actually you are asking two different questions. The first question is:
Am I missing something or is it impossible to export a subset of Roles directly to a delivery format, skipping an intermediary ProRes and Compressor conversion? How do you guys do this?
Yes this is perfectly possible, and it’s actually very easy.
This is a timeline with Czech and English subtitles + Czech and English audio mix. I have created a separate Role for the Czech titles and the English titles, and a separate Subrole for the Czech mix and English mix (just to show that this works with Roles as well with Subroles):
To export to a delivery format with only the Video, the Czech titles and the Czech Mix: choose Share > Master File and press the Settings button. In the Settings window, choose the export codec (I have chosen H.264) and then select Roles As Multitrack Quicktime movie. Then just choose the Video Roles (Video + CZECH SUBS) and Audio Roles (CZECH MIX) you want to include in the export and you’re done:
The second question is:
I want to export MP4/M4V (“Apple Devices”) in one of the languages, say, English (=a single MP4/M4V file with English graphics and English VO)
Exporting a master file based on Roles directly to MP4 is currently not an option. You can only export based on Roles using a QT wrapper (Master File > Audio and Video) or an MXF wrapper (Master File > MXF).
So, in your case, you can export an H.264 delivery file based on Roles straight from the timeline (no need to create an intermediary file or use Compressor), or you can export a high-quality master file based on Roles from the timeline and convert the master file to MP4.
– Ronny
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I have only one thing to say about this video: I think that Avid will humbly remove it from their website after NAB.
– Ronny
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Excellent write-up, Simon. And I agree that, for this particular job, you seem to have found the perfect workflow. I don’t think that FCP X and Motion were ever intended to cater for niche grading or restoration workflows, but for a much larger market instead. Good to hear that Fusion and Resolve can finally fill that gap. The Apple ProApps and BM software seem indeed to be growing into perfectly complementary solutions.
– Ronny
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Confirmed. My initial tests were with Compressor 4.3. Does not work in 4.3.1
– Ronny
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Lars,
Can you try this droplet (or the preset inside the droplet package) to see if this works for you?
– Ronny
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Just tried it on my MBP that runs Sierra, and it works. So I have no clue as to where the problem is. Maybe others can do a little test as well?
– Ronny
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Works fine here. 2013 MP, El Cap and latest ProApps.
I have downloaded the droplet, opened the package and added the preset to my custom Compressor presets.
Exported different files from within Compressor without any issues:
Then shared 2 clips from the FCP X browser (a 5K Epic Dragon clip and a 1080p FS5 clip) using the same Compressor preset:
Both clips were converted to the destination format with correct source TC:
Maybe it’s another Sierra issue?
– Ronny
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I visit quite a lot of production and post houses every year, and actually it’s the first time I have seen new MacPros inside the server room of a post house. I found it very funny because there is no reason why anyone should do this anymore. With the old and noisy cheese graters I would agree, but this is an ultra-silent power-horse that does not take any space and that has actually been built to sit on your desktop. Furthermore, by putting the MPs in the server room, they are making things unnecessarily complex. Instead of just running one little fiber or RJ45 cable between every workstation and the server room, they now have to run several cables for the monitors and any other peripherals between every computer in the server room and every workstation in the building. A gigantic waste of time and money, but I posted the pics because I found they have been very creative in trying to solve a problem that does not actually exist.
Three our four years later when you upgrade why not be able to use the older system to create a system like the Jellyfish (for the 5%)?
I have no time to keep responding to this, but you really should not confuse a bunch of drives in a chassis with a high-performance shared storage solution.
– Ronny
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There is much more to this system than just storage. Most of the research and engineering has gone into creating the fastest pipeline possible between the head unit (server) inside the box and the direct attached user connections. But what really makes this system stand out is that Write actions (ingest, exporting etc…), even at high speed , do not affect the Read performance. That’s why so many people chose this solution for high-speed editing against fierce deadlines.
Here you see one being used by the French company X-TREM Productions on the race circuit in Francorchamps for the Le Mans Formula racing championships. Multiple live streams from outside broadcast vans are ingested over 10 GbE in realtime onto the JellyFish while 2 lead editors and 2 journalists are editing the footage in FCP X at high speed while it is being ingested, outputting their edits near-live to national television and different online channels.
And here’s a setup we did two days ago in Barcelona at Mediapro, one of the largest service providers in Europe. Actually the “little” JellyFish Mobile with its 8 bays ran circles around their current QNAP 24-bay shared storage system, as well in Read and Write performance, waveform caching and editing latency, running FCP X for the award-winning primetime long-form tv-show Salvados. In the picture you see how easy it is to transport this system in a Pelican case. It also gives an interesting view on how they have set up their new MacPros in the server rooms.
The JellyFish Mobile is the smallest system LumaForge sells and it has a constant total bandwidth of 1800 MBS Read AND Write with SSD caching and close to zero latency. Their larger JellyFish systems (both mobile and rack-mounted) deliver up to 8000 MB/s Read and Write bandwidth and can expand up to 580 TB of working (100% useable) storage. Finally, the enterprise-class LumaForge ShareStation systems (which are already in operation in different broadcast stations and major post houses all over the world) can go up to 3 Petabyte of storage and achieve bandwidths of over 12.000 MB/s running on 10GbE to 100 GbE fiber pipelines. There will be a lot of very interesting news from LumaForge at the coming NAB.
– Ronny
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I agree with every single word of Tim’s comment.
I just got back from visiting the most renowned film school in Spain where each year 1800 students from Spain and from all over the world get their Masters Degree in Film&Television. The school only teaches Final Cut Pro X for editing, and nothing else.
When I asked the Head of Post-Production why, he said (quote): “Because our students find it very easy to learn. So we don’t have to spend much time explaining buttons and menus, and we can focus on what’s really important: teaching them the art of editing. Once they master this, they can easily learn any other NLE if their job would require this in the future. Furthermore, all of the (over 100) tv and movie production companies associated with the school use FCP X. This makes it easy for us to get our graduation students internships at these companies. And most of these internships lead to them getting a first job.”
When I asked about other software he said: we do teach Adobe software such as InDesign, Photoshop and AE, but not Premiere. We also teach Resolve for grading, and ProTools for audio. But we don’t train Audio Engineers and our film students find ProTools too convoluted, so we will move to Logic next year.
I have visited a lot of national film schools in the past years, and this is without a doubt one of the most impressive ones. With state-of-the-art studios, editing rooms and classrooms located in an beautiful modern building right in the old heart of Barcelona, the school is sponsored by the largest media corporations in Spain and has delivered some of the biggest names in Spanish film and television production. And an interesting fact: 60% of the current students are women. The times are-a-changing. Welcome to the real world (-:
– Ronny
