Ronny Courtens
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Hi Craig,
The compound clip workflow only works if your edit is done and you want to make some final adjustments to the global audio (such as gain, limiting, master compression) before exporting. Breaking apart the compound clip is not useful in this case because when you break apart a compound clip you lose all the effects that have been applied to the compound. However, you can always open a compound clip in its own timeline and make final touches to the clips inside it without losing the general adjustments you have applied to the CC.
But there are other methods to apply a general gain boost to multiple clips on your timeline.
– If this is audio that has been recorded with the video you can apply a Gain filter to the first clip on your timeline, adjust the gain for that clip and use Paste Attributes to paste the adjusted Gain filter to all the other clips that need gain boosting. Then you can use the Volume slider in the Audio tab of the Inspector to fine tune the volume on a specific clip or on multiple clips at once.
– Or you can select all your clips on the timeline that need a gain boost and in the Inspector > Audio tab go Audio Enhancements. There you click the little blue arrow to open the Audio enhancement parameters and you use the Loudness sliders to boost the gain of all the clips at once.
Here you see two clips of which the audio was recorded rather low:
And these are the same two clips with their audio boosted using the Audio Enhancement tool:
– Ronny
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Totally agree we need a “master” volume control, and I’m pretty sure it will come.
In the meantime you can indeed use relative level adjustments, or you can turn your edit in a compound clip which will allow you to globally adjust the “master” volume, to keyframe it where needed and to apply master effects such as limiting or compressing.
Or export your project as XML and import the XML in Logic Pro X to do your audio mixing and mastering. If you use Roles the latest versions of FCX and LPX work perfectly together, even with complex projects.
– Ronny
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Easy to do, without any extra work. Just select the Crop tool under the Viewer, and in the Crop options select “Crop”.
FCP X will automatically fill your trimmed image to the Viewer.
– Ronny
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Have tested it. Good old Shake is finally laid to rest in Yosemite.
– Ronny
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If your system handles your footage natively you don’t need to optimize it to prores. This won’t affect the quality of your final master.
– Ronny
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50i = 25fps.
If you are going to play this from QT player it is best to set your project settings to 25p.
If you are going to make a DVD it is best to set your project settings to 25i.
– Ronny
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Sorry to hear you are having these issues.
So if I get this right you have opened the compound clip in its own timeline and there you select the green veil clip and you are not able to rotate this clip. Is that correct?
– Ronny
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Michel Cioni has been involved in quite some high-end productions: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1721406/
And yes he has always been, and still is, a firm advocate of FCP X. Seeing how far Final Cut Pro has come I think it is quite difficult not to believe how powerful this NLE really is these days.
– Ronny
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When you play the dialogue clips, do you actually hear the audio?
– Ronny
– Ronny
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Seems Jeremy and I were answering at the same time (-:
– The Proxy media are half the size and resolution of the original media. If you are working on a feature you really should have sufficient drive space, storage is so cheap now.
– The XML will indeed reference the original media. If you export a Project XML from FCP X and you import that XML in Resolve you will be able to relink to the raw R3D files stored in the media folder on your external drive.
– Sharing from raw R3D is always done at full debayer, the codec you choose for exporting will determine the quality of your master file.
– Ronny
