Tim Kolb
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This is a challenge…FCPX is better with some of these native codecs, but FCP previous versions really do need to prep footage.
Unfortunately you can’t convert to ProRes on a Windows system, and whether or not the xml export from Premiere Pro would allow Final Cut to relink to the footage properly after a trip through log and capture is a question I can’t answer.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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How do you know this? Can you walk us through the steps you’re taking?
Have you found all he rest of the QuickTime codecs?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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On some of these file types, the ability of PPro to trim is dependent on the access the manufacturer allows to their media within the file, but as has been mentioned, many intraframe (long GOP) codecs are unable to be trimmed.
ARRIRAW is an interesting case, even in contrast to RED raw (which cannot be trimmed either), as it’s a frame sequence instead of a video file in the same way that RED footage is. I would think that DPX or .ari frame sequences would be super easy to trim…
Now that my curiosity is piqued, I want to check on this myself…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Yes…losing preview files is not normal.
I’m not sure who at Adobe would have said this, but it would be news to me…
Where are your preview files going? Most often on a Mac, PPro loses track of either media cache files or preview files because or permissions issues…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Is ProRes not available in the export settings under “QuickTime”? You may have to access the codec from the video tab in the exporter panel, but AFAIK, installing FCPX, or even Motion should put the ProRes encoder on a Mac.
It is limited to read only on Windows.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Hmmm…first, v6.02 for Mac has been available since early September, so trying that might be helpful, or at the very least would keep you (us) from troubleshooting anything that is already fixed…
I think that some very detailed information about how you installed it including whether or not you are the admin account and where you targeted things like cache files is probably in order.
Also, a specific system processor spec and the kind of footage you’re attempting to edit…
It’s hard to troubleshoot the issue without more details than you’ve supplied.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Are you shooting high definition or standard definition?
Keep in mind that the compression profile labeled as “YouTube” will give the media the best fit for YouTube’s specifications…you can upload a more compressed format, but then YouTube will simply convert it.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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As Craig says, it’s a reliable test for the machine it was tested on. If you have that configuration, these are likely the results you’ll see.
It’s no secret that Mac users without Adobe-approved GPU hardware don’t have the performance of those who do…and if the GPU you have is supported by FCPX and not Adobe, then FCPX will run faster.
Since NVIDIA cards also support OpenCL, I’m not sure there would be a way to test the reverse scenario as FCPX would also be able to use any card that PPro would as far as I know.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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You could use a color corrector filter like the fast color corrector and keyframe the white balance over time.
With these types of situations (a stage spot with a failing bulb or power ballast can do it as well), the color shift is continuously changing, so sectioning the clip and assigning unchanging white balance values will give you very obvious cut points in most cases.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Well…first, Camtasia is capturing computer interface with relatively little movement at a relatively slow frame rate…hence little temporal detail to capture means it can save a very small file.
What file size should a 10 minute video be? If you’re exporting 1920×1080, your 560 MB video is a quarter of the data rate of highly lossy and compressed standard definition DV…I’d call that relatively small.
500 minutes to upload is something that also depends on your connection speed of course…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor