[T. Payton]

Don’t worry it really does work. Try the file > import > files and let us know if you have any trouble.

Also if you dIdn’t copy your files to a drive first from your card, make sure “copy files to events” is checked in preferences.

T.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

If you plug SOME cameras in via USB, it will be recognized differently by FCP X than just plugging in a card.

I don’t have a 5D MkIII, so I can’t speak to that. On my 7D it doesn’t make any difference.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Actually be careful breaking apart a compound clip, there are some things that won’t break apart the way you had them originally.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Bob,

I hear you, it’s 2 steps forward and 1 step back for some things. For other things it is 10 steps forward. Hopefully you’ll find that the positives outweigh the negatives.

For my workflow I have pretty much two kinds of projects: render intense compositing projects and a edit intense projects. For those that need the render I turn on background rendering at .5 seconds. I’ve been pleasantly surprised that the rendering is typically done as soon as I am ready for playback. Switching to proxy can help speed up rendering also. For the edit intensive, I turn off background rendering, and if it can’t play back in real time for some reason, I’ll switch to proxy, which can handle a lot more stacked effects.

Hope this helps.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Lucky. Well apparently you were just that when you were able to bring in Canon footage via Import from Camera. 😉

Just kidding. To import from a card the FCP X workflow is File > Import > Files. Perhaps you plugged in a USB to the camera itself, not a card reader, and you just got, we’ll Lucky.

(Sorry I couldn’t resist)

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

You are correct.

However, as a workaround, use the blade to cut up your footage so that you can make a selection of what you would like to render. Then select that, and chose render selection. Then undo until your blade cuts are gone and you’re render will remain.

Good idea to add a feature request for that.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Regarding the iMovie you need, it is iMovie HD 6. It used to be free from Apple but not anymore.

As an alternative to making a DVD and then going DVD to DV, I would try to find someone in your area that has FCP 7, or Premier. You could give them a DV Quicktime and they can put it to tape.

As an aside, DVCAM is pretty old technology. It’s only SD, and very odd that they would want that. I would go ahead and submit a DVD also to them.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I use it all the time for scratch VO’s and foley work, and the occasionally commercial that just needs a well timed grunt. 😉

I used to have to head to soundtrack pro or protools to get a decently compressed VO with filters, etc. Now I haven’t touched those apps in months because 90% of the tools I need are in FCP X.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Ouch! Make sure you report that to Apple via the feedback form.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[Dave Gage] “By the context of the post, I take you mean you are recording a voice over directly into the program.”

Yes exactly. Just open up a timeline and Window > Record Audio and it will record at the location of your playhead. Just like it did in legacy FCP but better.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque