Ronny Courtens
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How much RAM do you have in your MBP?
How much space do you have left on your startup drive?
– Ronny
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1. Select an audio clip and in the Inspector > Audio tab and set Pan Mode to Default. Now you can move the audio of that clip to your Left or Right audio channel by dragging the Pan Amount slider.
2. Detach Audio does what it says: it detaches the audio from a video clip. Your video clips don’t have any audio (at least not on the screenshot), so there is no audio you can detach.
Your audio clip in the screenshot is a connected clip. Connected clips are always attached to the Primary Storyline. In your case it is attached to your first video clip on the Storyline. But you can move it freely by just dragging it under another part of the Storyline if you wish.
If you want to move the video clip without moving the attached audio clip: hold down the Tilde key while moving the video clip.
These are indeed very basic things. You will learn FCPX much faster if you first read the manual before you start playing around with FCPX. There are also many free basic tutorials available on the internet to get you started.
– Ronny
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1. Select one of the clips in your Event Browser and check the Inspector. What do the settings of the file show in the info tab? Interlaced or progressive?
2. When you say you work with mts files that were “converted” to quicktime, do you mean they ware just re-wrapped to QT or they were converted to ProRes? Was this conversion done in FCPX or by an external program?
– Ronny
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Time to start the Move to Smoke or Not: The Debate forum.”
LOL!!
Seriously, DS being EOL’ed is sad news but we could have seen it coming. DS has really been left behind in the past years and I guess it would have taken too much of an investment to get it’s code up to date with today’s technologies. We have taken the FCPX/Smoke 2013 route without any regrets.
– Ronny
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Yes, if the Events you want to search are showing in your Event Library.
In the Event Library group-select all the Events you want to search.
Then click the Filter button (the little magnifying glass icon) at the top of the Event Browser. The Filter window will appear.
In the Filter window click the + button to add a Rule. Choose Keywords from the list.
Under “Keywords” you will see all keywords that are present in the Events you have selected. Check the keyword(s) for the clips you want to find (un-check the keywords you don’t want). Now only the clips that have the keyword(s) you have checked will show in the Event Browser.
NOTE1:
If you don’t need the Filter window anymore now you can close it. As long as you don’t clear the search field next to the Filter button only your searched clips will be shown in the Event Browser and you can work with them.NOTE2:
At the bottom of the Filter window you will see a button called “New Smart Collection”. With this button you can put all the clips you have found using the search function into a new Smart Collection. But unfortunately the button does not work when multiple Events are selected, as a Smart Collection can only be created in one Event at a time.– Ronny
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Oliver,
The issue seems to be with a memory leak in the latest firmware update of the RedRocket card. We haven’t had any problems with FCPX and the RedRocket card so far, probably because we haven’t updated ours yet. Or maybe because most of the programs we get that were shot on RED are short form.
Anyway, it seems like dropping pre-created proxy or LT files into the Proxy Media folder does seem to be a valid workflow as long as the “proxies” have the exact same file name, TC and duration as the original media. I like your idea of using source TC burn in the proxies. Might use this on a next project, thank you.
– Ronny
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Hi Tobias,
To work in proxy mode in FCPX you need to:
1. Import your original media files (or link to them) in FCPX.
The clips (or links) will reside inside the Original Media folder of your Event.2. Create proxy files from your imported media files in FCPX.
The proxy files will reside inside the Transcoded Media > Proxy Media folder of your Event.You can only work in proxy mode with media that reside inside the Proxy Media folder. The huge advantage of this workflow is that you can easily switch back and forth from proxies to original media, allowing you to edit with proxies and export at full quality with just two clicks. Now on to your question:
You have imported Red Proxy media made from your R3D files. These media only reside in the Original Media folder of your Event and not in the Proxy Media folder. That’s why these files show “offline” when you switch to proxy mode. You can do three things to solve this issue.
1. Create proxy media from your Red Proxy clips. Yes you may lose some quality in this process, but that’s only for the proxy editing mode. When your edit is done switch back to Original mode and export your edit using the originally imported media.
2. You can go into your Event > Original Media folder and ALT-drag all your Red Proxy files into the Transcoded Media > Proxy Media folder. When you re-open FCPX and you switch to proxy mode FCPX will see the original RED Proxy files in the Proxy Media folder and all will be good.
I have tried this, it works, but it is a Finder operation and I personally don’t like to do many Finder operations with FCPX. Furthermore I think this defeats the whole purpose of working in proxy mode in FCPX. But if that’s what you want you can do it this way.
3. You don’t need to work with Red Proxy media in FCPX. Here’s a detailed report on how to edit with native R3D files and proxy media in FCPX: https://www.moviemaker.com/diy/movies-better-fcp-x-red-feature-film-workflow-part-1/
– Ronny
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Thanks for confirming. Good to know for the future.
– Ronny
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Great idea, worth trying. “PRIVATE” is indeed considered as a card structure by FCPX.
– Ronny
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What surprises me is that you get a thumbnail view option at the bottom of the import window when you double-click the GA folder. Seems there is something inside that GA folder that makes FCPX recognize it as a card archive.
The only way to get around this is not to double-click the GA folder to open it, but to just disclose the GA triangle at the root level of your drive to reveal the subfolders that are inside GA. Then you should be able to access and import each individual subfolder you want.
– Ronny