[Ronny Courtens]

Actually the confirmation window was added upon user request. It gives you the option to modify the default Destination of your Droplet if you wish. This can be very useful because most of us don’t want all our encoded files to always go into the same Destination folder. If you don’t wish to modify anything, all you need to do is press Return (or press Start Batch).

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Sorry for the late reply, and glad to hear you have found a workaround.

But next time you get files with an .mpg extension, just change the extension to .mod and in 99% of the cases you will be able to import these files in FCP X without any issues.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Rowena,

If you haven’t found a solution yet: what exactly is the file extension of these clips? Is it .mpg ?

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

The iPhone 6sPlus has known frame rate issues. The phone drops frames when recording movement – due to performance problems – and an inconsistent frame rate will cause jerky motion when you drop such video onto a timeline that is set to a fixed frame rate.

Just google “iPhone 6sPlus frame rate drop” and you will get thousands of comments about this issue + some tricks to avoid it.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

I can understand that for some people who only need to export AAF for audio once in a while, having to purchase X2Pro may seem an extra investment they don’t really want to make. But I don’t think any professional editor will ever mind paying a few extra bucks for this, especially since it seems to work extremely well.

Many of the people I work with send their audio from FCP X to ProTools using X2Pro, and all I can say is that they are very happy with this workflow. The ProTools guy at Swiss national tv even told me that the AAFs he gets from their FCP X suites now via X2Pro are much cleaner than the ones he got from their Avid workstations. So I think this all depends on what business you are in and how often you need to do this. These guys surely seem to like X2Pro a lot: https://news.creativecow.net/story/882113

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Although it took hem a few weeks to update some of their plugins for compatibility with El Capitan, Izotope has a pretty decent history of keeping up with the platforms and applications they support. I think it’in the interest of any third-party manufacturer to do so if they want to keep selling their products.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Craig,

I use Izotope RX5 Advanced on a regular basis inside FCP X. If your audio has been recorded in a fairly decent way and you just need to do some cleaning up (denoise, dialogue denoise, de-reverb etc…) you will have no latecy or CPU spikes whatsoever when you apply one of the Izotope modules from the FCP X effects browser on your audio clip in the timeline.

Actually, this works pretty well and even with more problematic audio you will often get an instant good-sounding result that you only need to tweak a little bit to get exactly what you want. You can open the interface for each Izotope module in the FCP X inspector to see all the settings you can tweak.

If your audio has big problems, you will need to use the more advanced processing options in the Izotope UI to try fixing the mess. Playing back the advanced option in realtime is very heavy on your system resources, which may cause playback latency when you apply the Izotope plugin directly to the clip in the timeline. In such cases it’s best to export the audio clip first and then open the file in the standalone Izotope application. When the audio has been cleaned up, you just need to export it again and replace the original clip on the timeline with the cleaned-up one.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Hey Bob,

Sorry if I misunderstood your post, you know I value your opinion a lot.

As to Avid bin locking/project sharing on the ShareStation:

Yes, Sam and his team had come up with a solution to “kind of” support Avid project sharing, but we tested it and it did not really work to our satisfaction (I have a lot of client-friends who use Avid, though many of them are using FCP X and Media Composer side by side now). But since a few weeks a UK company called Indiestor has released a little application called Mimiq that does wat it says: it mimics Avid bin locking and project sharing on the ShareStation as if you were working off an Isis: https://indiestor.com/product/mimiq/

I have had this app tested by some Avid friends on a ShareStation running several Media Composer seats, and they said they were extremely happy with it. It’s a per-seat license but it only costs 180£/seat or approx. 1200£ for 10 seats, which is very cheap when you know how much money you can save by not needing to buy an Avid server.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Bob,

If by “reviews that are not necessarily true” you mean the info we gave on FCP.co about the ISIS 5500 not working for Swiss national television, what can I say. They have tested it thoroughly, they even had an Avid reseller/integrator from Paris trying to fix things, and they found it did not meet their expectations at all. While the ShareStation that LumaForge installed was up and running in a fraction of the time they spent on other systems, and its still works to their full satisfaction.

They were pretty vocal about the other solutions they tried. We have recorded their reactions and we have published them word for word, with their permission and after sending the article to them for review. I even was so decent to cut the actual names of the other systems out of the video testimonials. If those people want to talk about a negative experience with Avid or any other manufacturer, they have every right to do so. And those people are not idiots. They are highly qualified video engineers who manage quite complex systems, just like you.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Hi David,

Let’s go through this step by step, just to make sure that everything updates correctly.

On your X drive, create a new folder called “FCP X 10.0” and put the old Final Cut Projects and Final Cut Events folders inside this folder.

So, inside “FCP X 10.0” you should have two folders:

1. A folder called “Final Cut Events” with inside it a folder called “Craft 15”.

In the “Craft 15” folder you need to have:

– a “Backups” folder
– a “CurrentVersion.fcpevent” file
– an “Original Media” folder
– a “Render Files” folder
– a “Transcoded Media” folder

2. A folder called “Final Cut Projects” with inside it a folder called “Craft 15”.

In the “Craft 15” folder You need to have:

– a “Backups” folder
– a “CurrentVersion.fcpproject” file

If that’s correct, launch FCP X and select File > Update Projects and Events”.

The Update window will open. In the Update window, click the Locate button.

A Finder window will open. In the Finder window, go to your X drive and select the “FCP X 10.0” folder, then press the Update button.

FCP X will create a new Library from the old Final Cut Projects and Final Cut Events folders.

Under the Library icon you see a folder called “Smart Collections”. Click on the little triangle to disclose the contents of this folder. Inside it you will see a Smart Collection called “Projects”. Select it. Do you see any projects in the Browser now?

– Ronny