Sandeep Sajeev
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You should avoid Xvid. Like H264 it is a delivery format, and will give you problems during your edit.
I just checked out iskysoft media converter and it doesn’t seem to have a ProRes output setting. It has a generic FCP Mov option but I don’t know what that is as it doesn’t say what codec is being used.
Your best, most reliable option is to use MpegStream clip. It is simple, lets you batch Transcode your files and costs nothing. Download it at https://www.squared5.com
Best,
Sandeep. -
Just to follow up, the YouTube revenue rates are between 80 cents to 2 dollars per 1000 views.
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Hi,
You should ideally Transcode your H264 footage to some flavour of ProRes. Editing H264 native in FCP 7 is problematic if you have more than a handful of clips.
Use MpegStreamclip (it’s free, fast and widely used for this sort of thing) to Transcode your rushes into ProRes. It sounds like ProRes LT should be good enough for what you need to do (short sound byte vignettes)
Hope that helps,
Best,
Sandeep. -
Transcoding and Re-wrapping are a pain. A few months ago I was given 10 TB of H264 rushes for 2 spots for a sportswear company. FCPX would have been a big help on this project allowing me to sort, tag, mark, organize and just get to know the footage in my editing tool. Then I could have left the machine running overnight and it would have transcoded away in the background.
As an aside, I think Smoke has this down pat, it transcodes your footage even if you’ve quit the app.
So I think for shows with large amounts of data, X can really help. However if you have a problem with the actual cutting experience (which I think is what you really dislike in X?) then it’s all moot.
Hopefully some of the cool organisational stuff in X makes it across to the other NLE’s as well, so that editors across the board can enjoy some of the benefits. For eg, Skimming in the Filmstrip View has practically eliminated the need for me to click on clips in the Event Browser, and that has really helped my fingers. On large projects that’s a considerable benefit. Smart Collections and Keywords are another.
I like Media Composer, but AMA dodginess holds it back for my workflow as I too have a large amount of ProRes material that comes in. Premiere seems cool, but I haven’t spent anytime on it yet and I have heard some horror stories about its Media Management so am holding off for a bit.
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So why not move across to Avid? What’s holding you back?
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I agree that most large Post houses have yet to be convinced of X as a viable editing tool. So for editors whose work is dependent on these facilities -either full time or freelance, X is not even on the radar.
I use it quite a lot now, but all my work is agency driven and they don’t really care what you use as long as it can eventually go out to the Flame and ProTools. But having used it for a while I can say that there are some jobs for which it is fantastic.
I have a friend who’s directing a series of concerts to be aired in-flight on a major airline, and based on the production I recommended that he use a couple of FCPX seats as his editing setup. Multicam, background Transcoding, Metadata Management, Smart Collections etc would have been of a great benefit to his team, but he decided to go with Premerie instead. ‘Everyone says it sucks’ was his rationale. So your point as to lack of presence and negative perception is very valid.
But it is a good editor. This is why there are people who defend it. I have cut on Edit*, Media 100, Media Composer and Final Cut Pro and I don’t find X’s toolset to be lacking in any significant way. But it did take me a couple of months of seriously plugging away a couple of hours a day to get to the point where I was comfortable using it on a real job.
What are you cutting on these days btw Aindreas?
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Look into Interdubs or Wiredrive.
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If you’ve been around for a while, you’ve seen all the major current players in the NLE space screw over their customer base. It’s true for Avid, Adobe, Autodesk and Apple at least, I don’t have any history with Vegas, Edius etc so can’t speak to that.
Everyone gets pissed for a while and then we move on to whichever company is playing nice at that particular moment.
So I don’t really understand the prolonged group whinge about FCPX. It’s been a year, and it’s unlikely to morph into FCP 8 in the next update.
It is what it is.
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Try the following:
– trash Preferences
– Restart Machine
– close all open Bins and Timelines apart from the Project Bin and the Sequence you want to export from.
– Minimize your Timeline view to Small or Reduced (whichever one is the smallest, I’ve forgotten) and turn off Audio Waveforms.Another option is to copy just the Sequence to a new Project, close the old Project and try to Export the Sequence.
I find on Projects with massive amounts of data that the second option usually works.
Obviously close all other applications and make us it’s just FCP that’s running.
Hope this works for you,
Best,
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Have you tried Relinking the clip?