Russ Haskell
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You could also step through your sequence clip by clip, hit X to mark each clip and share as master file. Not great but reasonable.
Russ
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Glad I read this thread. Until now, I was under the impression I had to wait for one project to finish before using Share for another.
Russ
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Forgot to add that the backup file, which has a timestamp as its file name, needs to be re-named to CurrentVersion.fcpproject,
Sorry about the missing step.
Russ
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It’s possible the backup file is still intact (if it hasn’t been over-written this AM). With FCP closed, in the Finder, navigate to your project folder >Backups and move the backup to the same folder level as CurrentVersion.fcpproject. Hide the old one in a temp folder. Launch FCP and see whether your sequence returns.
Russ
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You could also select all in the time line and scale them to fit.
Russ
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Can’t speak to Sorenson, but I don’t think Compressor will quite get you there.
The MPEG 4 preset is the only way I know to get h.264 CBR – by selecting Improved Profile and building a custom preset from there. But even then, maxing out the bit rate setting to 30 Mbps gets an actual rate of a little less than 20 Mbps for a 1080P file. In addition the highest audio rate setting is 320.
If someone else knows hoe to do it, I hope they’ll contribute.
I read an article some place that said it was possible to encode a CBR mov by choosing Streaming in the Compression Settings window, but I’ve tried and it is reported as VBR.
Good luck.
Russ
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Thanks.
I was expecting that if I replaced a 5 second clip with a 3 second clip and chose Replace form Start, it would respect the in points of both the old and the new clips and I would essentially get an over-write edit for 3 seconds from the head and have two seconds of the tail remaining from the “old” clip. (And with similar results from choosing Replace from End except the edit would begin from the out points of both clips.
That understanding was based on the manual saying that both options used the length of the TL clip in determining the duration of the edit. But after reading Larry’s article, I guess the answer to my question is simply I am not reading the manual correctly.
Russ Haskell
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FWIW, I use MPEG Streamclip to open and play mpeg transport streams and they play perfectly well – audio and video.
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Just to let you know, the lafcpug link doesn’t work…missing the f in the url.
Russ
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Use both versions nearly every day and agree there is no performance gain in C4. It does do MP4 h.264, but it is also more temperamental than C3.5. On the Apple boards there are many C4 issues reported – ranging from launch problems to submit problems to jobs hanging. Seldom hear similar things about C3.5.
Russ