[Trevor Ward]

Seems to me you just have to select the clip in the timeline and drag it down or up. As long as snapping is on, it stays in position.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

Greg, did you ever get this to work? I just bought a 13″ macbook pro and want to run two external monitors, one as a computer screen so I have more real estate to work on my timeline, etc. And I want a second monitor, actually a TV, so I can have as an output monitor. Obviously the TV doesn’t have display port. It has HDMI and PC input (I think).

My laptop has thunderbolt output.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

Thanks Bill. Good explanation.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

That’s not exactly an accurate statement. First, the canon brand isn’t necessarily different than other brands. Second, depth of field (and apparent focus) is dependent upon aperture. Third, I’m not talking about how critical focus is. I’m talking about a back focus effect.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

Ok, for anyone on this thread and those who in the future look for an ANSWER to the problem.

Upon creating a new project, or opening FCPX for the first time, you have two choices for footage. Choice one is import clips. The other is import from Camera. If you select import clips, you will have the file structure as mentioned in earlier posts. Selecting the top level of the card (or folder, depending on your workflow) will return an error message stating there is unsupported media or something of that nature.

If you select, Import from Camera (or input media from connected device. It’s the icon that looks like a video camera, interestingly enough, a Panasonic AF100). The program might default to your facetime camera. But in the lower left of the screen, there is an option to Open Archive. Selecting this will then allow you to navigate through finder to your top level folder with your card data. Once you do this, you will see the “card” or “folder” in the upper left under CAMERAS. Selecting it will then show you all the clips on your card.

You can then import all or select which clips to import. Boom. Done.

I didn’t see logging abilities there. But as pointed out by James I think, you can log after the clips have been imported (and while they are background transcoding).

For the record, I don’t like that when it creates Optimized media or Proxy media, I don’t have the option of telling it what I consider proxy and what I consider Optimized. For example, in FCP 7, I used to transcode into ProRes LT for low budget projects that were going to the web and where not getting serious color grading. Is there a Preference that I can change to make that happen?

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

But what does that mean? Does that mean that I have to:

Step 1. do the whole renaming thing for each folder until I reach the mts files.
Step 2. use compressor, mpeg streamclip or some other application to do a transcode
Step 3. import those newly transcoded clips

Has Final Cut X done away with Log&Transfer?

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

Is there a resolution to this? I’ve working with a brand new workflow to me: New OS (mountain lion), new editor (FCPX) and new camera (AF100). I have a card full of footage that final cut pro x can’t seem to read. I will have about 7 cards by the time this is over. Am I really supposed to change all those folder names and use some converter software before I’m able to use the footage? Is’nt there some sort of Log & Transfer function like there was in Final Cut 7?

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

I don’t have the AF100, but I have seen this on other cameras. I’ve seen it when the ND filter is between settings (the little switch isn’t completely registered in one of the settings). I’ve also seen then due to high humidity, like going from an AC room to a hot, humid outdoors.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

So I re-exported all the pictures from Lightroom at the new dimensions. Nothing over 3998 pixels. (BTW, using automator to create a batch resize doesn’t work the same as going directly out of Lightroom. It increased the file size of each jpg image.)

I’ve now started adjusting the scale attribute and keyframes of all the stills. After an hour, I decided to render one of the more involved sections (meaning there are two images on the screen at the same time, but they only last 3 frames each. And guess what? Still getting Out of Memory Error. Ughhhh!!!!!!

-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
orlando, fl

[Trevor Ward]

Actually Shane, that’s exactly it! I think that’s why I’m so frustrated. Because if I had dropped the file in and received a warning or even better, an error message, then I would not have done this 500 times and then expected it to work.

-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
orlando, fl