[Terry Barnum]

Two on Mojave and one on Catalina.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Hi Greg,

If you stored the media for the compounds, music and gfx outside of the Library, then copied these clips from Library to Library within FCPX, wouldn’t this do what you need? I think you’ll need to set the prefs to Leave files in place.

The Ripple Training guys are having a sale on their Media Management tutorial which might be useful info. $10. No affiliation.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Hi Oliver. Yes, that’s a possibility. It would mean transporting the NAS (many projects spanning >50TB) and some associated networking gear, but doable. I was hoping it would be possible to do certain FCPX things remotely–make small fixes, exports, encodes, etc. Not having audio puts a crimp in that.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

I’ve not done this before but wouldn’t it depend on how slow you want the slow motion? 5 x 23.976 = 119.88 which is pretty close to 120 fps, but a 5x speedup in the live performance playback seems like it would be pretty extreme. My guess would be to decide on a slow-mo speed then figure out what multiple could work in 120.

The first slow-mo music video I remember was The Police’s Wrapped Around Your Finger directed by Godley and Creme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWINSRhQU0
They ran everything at 2x speed so finished video was slowed down to half-speed. https://www.thepolicewiki.org/Police_wiki/index.php?title=Wrapped_Around_Your_Finger_(video)

-Terry

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[Terry Barnum]

Thanks Jeremy. Both of those are checked. It must’ve been just a lot of processing needed because the 3 did eventually get their waveforms. It took quite awhile.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

We used Lumberjack on a long-form documentary style project and after a few teething issues, it worked well. I think they named a bug after me. ☺

I recall it did work with multicams. It wasn’t cheap to have them do the transcription if you have a lot of material. There are other transcription services that you can use if you’re up for manipulating their output text file into what Lumberjack wants to see. I experimented with the ones that Mark at Ripple tested in his Lumberjack review.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

We ran into something like this once, but it was several FCPX versions ago. A “ghost” audio track that played but was not visible in the timeline. We ended up copying the project into a new project then the audio clip became visible and we were able to remove it. Strange.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

I’m not aware of a built-in method to do scene detection but a quick search shows:

https://www.scene-detector.com/index.shtml

If you’re comfortable in the Terminal:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35675529/using-ffmpeg-how-to-do-a-scene-change-detection-with-timecode

I tested the above ffmpeg method on an exported mp4 with fairly static video and cuts to full screen graphics and it did work but the reported timestamps were slightly off. It could definitely get you in the ballpark though.

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

You could use something like the free Audacity to do the sample rate conversion from 44.1kHz to 48kHz. Tracks->Resample…

-Terry

[Terry Barnum]

Where is the media? If external, how is it connected and are the drives behaving normally?

-Terry