[Sandeep Sajeev]

Mine didn’t earlier, but I just tried it now and it does!

Thanks Dave!

Travis, you can Select Multiple Timelines, right click and choose Export Using Compressor.

That is great, wish I’d bothered to keep checking if this functionality had come in.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Audio is visually linked to video by default in X. So when you cut a clip into the Timeline, you will see just one rectangle- the top half will show you a filmstrip and the lower half will show you the Audio Waveform. You need to ‘Break Apart Clip Items’ to break the clip into distinct Video and Audio Components. So if you have 10 tracks, you will see 1 Video clip (blue) and 10 or 20 Audio clips (depending on how many are Mono and how many are Stereo)

But this is totally customisable.For example if you have one instance of the clip at 10:02:00:00 that only uses 3 of your 10 channels, you can turn off the 7 channels that you don’t need and they won’t display on the timeline. It’s non destructive though, so if you decide later that you want to activate another 2 channels, you just turn them on in the inspector and they show up in your timeline.

And you can do this differently for any instance of the Synchronized clip that you edit into the Timeline.

Plus you can always ‘Unbreak Apart’ (I’ve forgotten the actual name) whenever you want so you don’t have to deal with moving around, editing over or otherwise affecting the audio clips unintentionally later.

So it’s very powerful, very fast and very very functional.

A word of warning though, there are a lot of things that are different in X so if you don’t have a decent level of competence with it, you may be better served just dealing with this in FCP 7.

But if you have a lot of this type of thing coming across your desk then you should probably spend some time messing around in X.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Hi,

Here’s how you can check:

Click anywhere in your Sequence to make it active
Hit Cmd+0 to bring up the Sequence Settings Dialog Box.

You’ll see your Frame Size, Editing Timebase, Aspect Ratio and Codec listed here.

Now when you ‘Send to Compressor’ choose/modify a Preset that matches those settings exactly.

Best,
Sandeep.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

They should stop dicking around with Open in Motion, Send to Motion workflows and just build that functionality into X. It’s ridiculous that they didn’t do this right from the start.

Add 50 bucks to the cost of X if necessary.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Not to derail Kyles thread, but I have never needed to use Plural Eyes in X. And the great thing is that in the Inspector you have checkboxes for your various audio tracks, so turning them on and off is a breeze. This is all without going into Multicam, it’s what’s called a Synchronized Clip and you can have multiple channels of discrete audio synced to video.

It’s a very cool and useful feature. So much so that now any dual system sound projects that come in, I just automatically cut in X.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Hi,

Yes that magenta outline all across the talent is going to be hard to fix in FCP. You could try duplicating the layer on to an upper layer, color correcting for the outline and adding some softening. You will also need to do some roto.

Honestly you’d be better served doing this in another app instead of banging your head against the wall in FCP. The aliasing is also pretty bad and I don’t think it’s something that can be fixed in FCP adequately either.

Best,
Sandeep.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Off topic Shane, but this is something that FCPX deals with very elegantly.

There is no simple way to do this in 7 Kyle, it’s a pain.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Hi,

What are your Sequence Settings (frame size, aspect, etc) ? And what ar your compressor settings? Do you have Frame Controls turned on?

Also there’s no way to Export Multiple Sequences to Compressor from FCP. The closest workaround to what you want is to Batch Export the Sequences from FCP, and then import these Exported Clips to Compressor and Batch Encode them out using your Delivery Settings (H264, 720p etc)

It’s not one click and you’ll need more hard drive space, but it’s infinitely better than doing this one sequence at a time.

Best,
Sandeep.

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Can you render timelines from other projects? If you can without your system crashing, then try copying just your sequence into a new project, close the old project and try to render.

Best,
Sandeep

[Sandeep Sajeev]

Hi,

I don’t know how to read crash reports, but while you’re waiting for someone to get back to you on this, you might try the following:

Break up your Sequence into shorter sequences, so if your original timeline is 10 minutes, create 5 timelines of approximately 2 minutes each.
Try to render them and see which one crashes the system. Then you can try isolating the clip.
Look in your Capture Scratch for any clips with a -v or -av suffix. These tend to be corrupt and can cause havoc.

Best,
Sandeep.