[Thomas Hezel]

Hello,

same here!
I like to dublicate projects to fix a state of work.

But then suddendly I realise that fcpx jumped into another project. Since it looks very similar, I sometimes do my changes on a stage some days ago, instead in the new duplicated version.

You have to pay a hell of attention to look exactly on which project you are currently on.
It looks for me it happens when you scan clips in the media-window.

It’s probably some other arrogance of the software managers of fcpx trying to be extra clever and making things complicated. Don’t post this issue on a fcpx forum, they will tell you, that you just don’t understand the system fcpx works with.

Hoping for some Linux solution in the future!

TH

zazu-Berlin Filmproduktion und Werbeagentur

[Thomas Hezel]

Did the following test:

– edit a clip in FCPX
export XML of the edit
import in DaVinci
– color match it in DaVinci
output it from DaVinci in PorResHQ
– take the color matched clip from DaVinci and put it into FCPX for final composition (title plus adding sound line that went through ProTools)
– export the color matched ProResHQ with the composition from FCPX

go back to DaVinci:
put the original output from DaVinci on top – line 3
put the output from the final FCPX-compositon underneath – line 2
have your edit in DaVinci under (color matched but not outputted) – line 1

go to color in Davinci
put the cursor on a image with nice contrast

switch between line 2 and 3 and check on the video scopes

If broadcast save was on (0-100%) during color matching you will have a slight compression at the peak between line 1 and the rest. But otherwise the clip from DaVinci line 2 – that went through FCPX for final composition – is just the same as the original DaVinci output line 3 !

The washing out of video clips inside FCPX and with Quicktime (that is underneath FCP) is a Problem of Quicktime.
For whatever reason Apple has descided to make our videos brighter and the blacks washed out.

If you go to the FCPX-Forum you get just funny answers like: “You stupid don’t understand our new editing approach …”

The developer of FCPX and the world around it, influenced by Apple, tries to force us to edit how they think we should edit. Discussing problems with them – on my experience – doesn’t have an effect. I desperately wait for a proper Linux solution. DaVinci seams to be on it’s way.

Use for playing videos never Quicktime! Use VLC or other!

zazu-Berlin Filmproduktion und Werbeagentur