[T. Payton]

Humm. I’ve output at least 6 SD Anamorphic projects from FCP X to DVD. Half to compressor & DVD Studio Pro and half to iDVD. All of them worked beautifully.

So if you drag it to iDVD without adding the chapter markers in GarageBand what happens? Are you sure you are creating an SD Anamorphic project in FCP X?

So I’m a big MPEGStreamclip user but I can’t figure out why you are using it? To resize footage?

BTW. Did you try Hootenanny? https://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html Worked great for me.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

[jon smitherton] “I think I’ll wait till the picture lock is approved before I dupe/upres the media, then output a master.

I assume there is no consolidation with handles like in FCP7.”

You are correct. I believe Apple’s philosophy is that storage is plentiful and cheap, unlike years ago. Also with file based acquisition opposed to tape, you really don’t end up with really long clips like you could with tape. (I used to just capture DV tapes to one gigantic file and then sub clip it). I know for me in FCP 7 the media manager is really hit and miss. I tried to open an old commercial from about 5 years ago and found that media manager just missed about 10 files needed out of about 50 clips. I would much rather have the whole clip than my edit system make an error when splitting clips.

[jon smitherton] “In terms of Archiving – can I just keep H264 files (I’d like all the rushes as there may be a possibility of a future TVC) with view to that when I start the project again it will re-create the proxy or optimized media? “

Exactly. To archive you can safely trash the transcoded media folder in your event, but of course keep the original media.

For what it is worth, our workflow is to copy or original files from camera onto a media archive drive, then set it aside. We then keep a separate copy on our media drive and work from it. We haven’t had a drive failure since we started using FCP X and I haven’t tested to see if FCP X will happily relink files to our media archive drives.

How much footage do you have? Unless it is tens of hours, do you really need to wait to transcode your footage and create optimized versions? Unless you are on a very recent machine, it should help speed up editing. Tonight before you leave, just select all your footage, hit transcode and it will be done by tomorrow.

[jon smitherton] “Am saying AVID is too work-intensive with its patching – I’m finally thinking Apple had the right idea with the magnetic timeline. “

Totally agree. There are things about FCP X that are really frustrating because of it’s lack of maturity and many bugs, but wow I am cutting faster and almost effortlessly, once you get your brain around the concept. I am shocked at the brilliance of the whole Magnetic Timeline.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I can think of a few options, listed in order of least painful to most painful:

1 – Just select all the clips in your Event Browser and Choose File > Transcode Media. Easy, but could take some time if you’ve got a lot of media.

2 – If you “favorited” all of your clips before you edited them (a great idea BTW). Then just show favorites only in the event browser and choose File > Transcode Media.

3- If you duplicate a project you can create a new event and project with only the used media.

4 – To just transcode the items using in our final project, you’ll need to do that one by one, but it will go quickly. Make sure you are in “Show Clips as Filmstrip View” (there is a bug in list view). Then assign something like option-T to the “transcode media” command. Now From the Timeline Index, show only video clips. Then Select your first clip in the timeline index, hit Shift-F to highlight the clip in the event browser, and then option-T (your transcode command) and then ensure that “optimized media” is checked and then hit Enter. Rinse and repeat for each video clip.

BTW. Were you saying AVID made the project easier or harder?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

To my fellow Earl Grey drinker,

Actually I think you did everything correctly. I have folders called “Final Cut Events Disabled”, etc and it works very well. You’ll want to always quick FCP X when moving around projects and events as I am sure you well know.

FCP X keeps track of files by giving files a big old long ID number like this: uid=”FE7553EE-6E2D-42A6-ABA9-989B7C766545″. That magical number prevents FCP X from referencing the wrong clip. So I suspect there is something else going on.

Why don’t you check a few things:

– Make sure you are not playing proxy clips. Hit Command-, to view preferences under Playback.
– Check that your project is referencing the correct Event. Select the project in the project browser, and in the inspector and looked under “referenced events”
– Check the reference for a clip itself. Select a clip and in the inspector choose “Show FIle Status” from the gear icon:

If you hover over the file location a full path will come up after a second or two:

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Unfortunately FCP X doesn’t really give you time feedback in regards to media management. I put in a request to Apple, I would recommend you do the same.

As far as reconnecting media, to put it nicely FCP X has a slightly different approach. Can you tell more about your project and what you are doing and perhaps we can offer a solution.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Black bands at top and bottom? Did GarageBand add them by any chance?

Also instead of garageband you could try this free app also.

https://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Hold down the command key while you transform.

The middle video window is called the Viewer BTW.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I just reread your title of your post and you mentioned Final Cut Express. Did you mean that or FCP X? I just assumed because this is a FCP X forum.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Chris – we would love to help you, but why don’t you try the Final Cut Pro forum. This is actually the FCP X Techniques forum.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Weird. So what format did you save the files out of Illustrator? Also what format/settings are you using for the media export? What is the resolution of your project? SD, HD?

BTW. I just did a project like this last week (in fact have another one today) 720p and I have been saving out of Photoshop as a PSD and PNG with alpha channel and it has been working well. Posting proofs to YouTube/Vimeo without a problem.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque