Shane Ross
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OH! SOrry…this is a DIFFERENT ISSUE COMPLETELY! Sorry.
Is it’s opacity lower than 100% Look at the controls tab…what do you see there? is the opacity something like 80%?
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First off, why is everything 720p? Why not 1080? What’s the delivery going to be?
Second, yes, what I’d do with the 25fps sequence is convert it to 29.97…the whole thing. Output it, then convert and bring over. But…why is it already 720p, if it’s SD? It shouldn’t be. FCP 7 doesn’t scale well. You should be cutting this in a PAL DV timeline, export to that format, and then convert the frame rate and upscale at the same time.
Not sure Compressor is ideal for this. Compressor does a good job of scaling…and converting 23.98 to 29.97 INTERLACED (by adding pulldown). But this is 25fps…most likely interlaced it being DV…to 29.97 PROGRESSIVE. You have to scale, deinterlace and convert the frame rate all at once. Questions are…what’s your budget? How good does this need to look? Because your options are based on how much you can afford, and how good you want it to look. ZERO budget, yup, use compressor. There will be repeat frames, you can’t avoid that, when going 25 progressive to 30 progressive. Nothing to hide in the interlacing.
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This is a keyboard button you press, or something. Happens often. SO OFTEN, it’s a stock answer.
SO, this DIDN’T solve it? Or did? Because there were two solutions to this.
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I haven’t had to use one of these STOCK ANSWERS in while! But, here you go!
#15 White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Shane’s Stock Answer #15: White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Make sure the canvas or viewer are selected then go to VIEW>CHANNELS and set it to RGB. It might be set to ALPHA.
OR…
Click on the drop down menu above the Viewer or Canvas and make sure that you are on IMAGE or IMAGE + WIREFRAME.
Shane
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FCP USED to do this. FCP 7…totally did this. For some reason, this very simple little operation is something Apple didn’t think people wanted anymore. It’s not included in any version of FCP-X. So a third party app was made to fulfill this need, which enough people needed, apparently, for this to be made. But in google searching this topic, people have been missing this feature ever since FCX first came out.
Shane
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OK….Not quite what I want. I want ONLY the footage used in the sequence, with handles. So, for example, I have a 6 min 4K archival clip (Apollo launch). We use 10 seconds of that…and only 10 seconds. If you archive using only FCX, then it’ll copy over the FULL 4K ProRes HQ file, many many GB…instead of just 14 seconds (10 seconds with 2 second handles).
And when I have a project with lots of clips where only small portions are used, then I get LOTS AND LOTS of large files, making the archive for this project, nearly 6TB.
Meanwhile, in Avid (and Resolve, and Premiere land)…when I MEDIA MANAGE, I can have the option of only clips used in the sequence, with handles. And my archive is much smaller. In the case mentioned, only 600GB.
Shane
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Nope! That’s it. But FCP-X won’t do it. You need a third party app in order to do that.
WORX4 X
https://marquisbroadcast.com/worx4-x.html
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Yeah, in the future I will be doing that….possibly. But the point of the archive is so that the media can still be accessed in both the edit app, and the finishing app….if I trimmed with Resolve, then did away with the original media, then FCX wouldn’t be able to link to it. I do have enough handles (2 seconds) to allow for minor trims as needed. But I guess I COULD render it out as something that could then be opened in FCP-X.
My main gripe is that say you only used FCP-X to edit and online and all that, you couldn’t consolidate the final cut with only the media used, unless you had this third party tool. Further evidence (IMHO) that Apple doesn’t care about a certain sector of editors by leaving off basic tools, and HOPING the some third party programmer would come up with them and that enough people in that market would buy them so that programmer would make some money for the effort.
Shane
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Look at the Avid Media Composer channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/avid/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=31Shane
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I thought that the iMac and iMac Pro were both WELL SUITED for FCP-X…and that an eGPU would help with FCP-X users that want to finish in Resolve…so that’s all they really cared to do. WHO NEEDS this tower anyway…other than people wanting to use OTHER editing apps, and not FCP-X? And why would Apple care to cater to them at all, because all they really care about is FCP-X, and the current computers work GREAT for that?
While I do know that it’s coming, I’m very skeptical about what it will be….and who it will be made to serve.
Shane
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