William Streeter
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I’m gonna be the guy to tell you to do it completely differently. AVCHD has to be rewrapped in movs by FCPX on import–it’s the default behavior when handling that format. If you want to store your media externally just set your external storage destination before you import the footage. Keep clones of your cards on another disk and set your FCPX project backups somewhere else too. That way if your drive dies you can still recover fairly quickly. NOT optimizing your media at the beginning will save lots of space. And the rewrapped AVCHD as MOV files will be much smaller than proxy files anyway. And I wouldn’t bother converting all the footage before you import–jesus talk about a hassle and lots of wasted time and CPU cycles. FCPX can do it as needed at any point in the process so just wait until you are done and do it at the end by changing your project to 24p and applying the deinterlace option while optimizing used clips only. Handling that much footage this way will give you peace of mind that if something goes sideways you can always reload all your footage from your card clones and restore from your backups. If you start converting footage outside of FCPX you’ll never be able to manually relink all that footage.
Bill Streeter
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You can always test it and see how it looks. This kind of stuff is non-destructive so there’s no harm in testing it out. One other way to deinterlace that is probably easier: just make your project 1080p rather than 1080i and any clip you add will be deinterlaced–so even simpler.
Bill Streeter
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My understanding is that deinterlace cuts the resolution by half, technically, but it interpolates the missing parts of the frame info so it doesn’t look that bad. Also I wouldn’t bother doing it until you have the cut mostly done. Then select all the clips in your project and do the deinterlace in the info tab at once.
Bill Streeter
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No need for Cinema tools. The answer is so simple you won’t believe it. Rather than allowing FCPX to auto set the frame rate of a project when you add your first clip, just create a project and set the desired frame rate and FCPX will auto conform any clip you add to it after that no matter what frame rate it is in. Of course you’ll need to deal with the interlacing too which will reduce your resolution but there’s no getting around that. You can deinterlace in FCPX too: https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/567-how-to-deinterlace-in-fcpx-without-filters
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No you don’t need long clips to sync. You just need to assign an angle to each clip in the inspector/info window. Name all the clips from the same angle something unique “Angle 1,” “Angle 2,” “A” or “B” etc. Once you have them synced you’ll see a multicam clip in your browser, put that in your project. Then in your viewer choose “Show angle editor” (or something like that, can’t remember the exact terminology). Then just play the project and choose your angle cuts in real time by cutting on the angles in the angle viewer. Simple. There is a bit more to it than this but that’s generally the basics. There are quite a few good tutorials on Youtube about it.