[Terry Barnum]

I found this on the fcp.co site from many years/versions ago talking about a red band above footage that doesn’t play well. There wasn’t a resolution unfortunately but the original poster did find a way to trigger it by compounding and getting rid of it by detaching the audio. Apparently the 7toX folks (now SendToX) called the red line a “corruption indicator.” https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/6650-red-band-in-fcpx-timeline

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

No worries Dave. Happy I could help. It also works if you double-click a destination icon, like YouTube, which adds it to the bottom of the list.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Hi Dave,

Once in the Add Destinations dialog, did you try dragging the YouTube icon from the right pane into the list of destinations?

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

As a fellow science fiction enthusiast, (professor of a college class I took called it predictive fiction) I like where you’re going with this!

[Mark Suszko] “webcams that can remotely do multicam live shots by manipulating a 4k image to simulate a 3-cam shoot”

Do you happen to know which webcams these are?

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

[Greg Ball] “May I ask why you need to shoot interviews in 4K? How is this being used?
Just let them shoot their own response to you on their iPhone or Android device.
Maybe send them a lav microphone that plugs into an iPhone. The give them some pointers for shooting. Give them some lighting basics as well. “

Hi Greg. Thank you for the suggestions. The interviews are for long-form, documentary style training. My reasoning for 4k was the flexibility to re-frame in addition to being able to push in for the faux second angle. Providing the client with a pre-configured camera with fresh batteries and media would reduce their tech burden as well as make the recording device a known quantity to us. I totally agree that a phone setup is great for news, but I don’t think it would work for our productions. We could use FaceTime to help them setup the shot, lighting and background though.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Thanks Jason. I apologize, I’m not sure I’m following your process. Is my understanding below correct?

You FaceTime with your interviewee to help them set up a camera, lights and a mic you’ve sent them. Then guide them in framing the shot with them showing you the camera monitor screen via FaceTime? They start the camera recording, take their position and you drive the interview via FaceTime audio/phone call audio, muting when needed?

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Hi Frank.

Under View->Show in Viewer, make sure Angles is unchecked. Another way is to deselect Angles in the View menu that’s at the top right above the Viewer. Another way is Command Shift 7.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Unfortunately, no go. Tried using both sox and ffmpeg. Changing either the sample rate or the bit depth causes FCPX to refuse to relink. I’ll submit a feature request.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Thanks Brad. The sample rate change doesn’t affect playback speed. ffmpeg did the bit depth conversion from 24 to 16 on its own–maybe a default behavior when going to wav. I’ll give it a shot to just do the bit depth and report back but was hoping for more file size reduction with a sample rate change.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

[Oliver Peters] “It would be great if within the OS – without any special app – I could directly operate a remote Mac as if I would running a machine right next to me. And with little or no latency. In an ideal world, I *should* be able to run a full-blown Mac Pro across the country, simply by using an iPad Pro.”

The built-in Screen Sharing sorta works, but as with other solutions, the remote and destination bandwidth affect latency. I have it working from home to an FCPX 5K iMac in the office and installed Soundflower to hear the FCPX audio. The mouse lag is not too bad but video playback seems to be about 15fps.

-Terry