Tony Brittan
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Correction…DEFINITELY wants to get external storage. At least FW800 but eSATA (via express 34 card) would be much better. You never want the media on the same drive as the operating system/NLE software. Editing 101.
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Tony Brittan
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Use the iPhone setting in compressor…when it’s done, change the .mov extension to .mp4 and it should play quite nicely on an android.
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Now, thats a good idea!
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Too much to type out on my iPad…and one the most discussed topics on this forum. Please search the forum and you’ll find a wealth of info. Bottom line? All about workflow. Know your NLE and how it works, before you start so you don’t run into these problems. FCP legacy has never worked with this type of footage. If you were working with FCP X, it’d be all good but that’s a whole other story and tends to cause a lot of ire around here. Good luck!
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What codec is your footage? If its h.264 (ie from a DSLR or other file based camera), it needs to be converted to an edit friendly format first. In the case of FCP, ProRes is what you want. Just plain ProRes is fine. You can use MPEG Streamclip or Compressor to do if as a batch.
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Tony Brittan
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The app alloows for a cam to be plugged into it via the headphone input and you can use it to sync the slate to the cams TC. I think that’s what you’re asking?
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BTW…I do have the appropriate cable for FW400 to FW800…just haven’t tried it yet 🙂
Tony Brittan
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Great info here! So, when you captured with FCP X, were you able to capture directly to ProRes? That’s one thing I like about FCP 7. And I’ve always actually named every clip and logged only the shots I wanted to keep when capturing from tape. That way I have perfectly named clips in FCP, then I would do that “rename file to match clip” just to make sure that the files had the names I had given them in FCP. Now, if I just copy those folders over to my FCP X machine’s media drive and import using X telling it to import folders as keyword collections, All of the files are already named and good to go.
Yea, it’s a PITA but I haven’t tried doing it with FCP X yet since it is on a newer MBP and not my main workhorse machine. Along with Avid and Adobe CS 6 Production Premium as I’m learning them all now. I want to be NLE agnostic. But I do love me some FCP X! It actually turns out to be pretty cool. But I digress…the MBP has only FW 800 and frankly, I have just been too busy/intimidated/unwilling to try it just yet. I’ve been using X mainly for DSLR projects and GoPro along with a little bit of moving my ProRes from legacy to X if need be.
Tony Brittan
Island Shore Productions -
Yea…I’ve avoided doing projects from capture on in X because my two main cams are still HDV/Tape so I’m interested in the answers to this question.
I’ve done a couple where I capture using 7 and naming each file (ie: Exterior A 1) during capture, then right clicking in all of them (after selecting them all) and choosing “remane file to match clip”. I always use a great custom setting I picked up a while ago to do HDV to Rores and it works great so I’ve stuck w/ that. Then go to capture scratch and grab your folders from the scratch drive over to an external (I’m using eSATA). Then I take that over to my FCP X workstation and transfer the folders onto my edit stations media drive and import the folders as keyword collections. Yea, it’s a bit of extra work but I haven’t figured out my workflow directly within X yet.
Just my two cents 🙂
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Sounds like it coud be a RAM issue? Or a drive issue? Media on a fast external drive? If its not, it needs to be. That could be causing your problem. I usually only see that when starting FCP for the first time after its been closed for a while (when it’s getting itself all loaded up its has to get all of the assets together, etc) or whe. I’ve added a whole folder of .png images that are pretty large.