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Yair Bartal
September 3, 2016 at 6:25 am in reply to: Ingesting AVCHD(h.264) files into FCPX without transcoding using either “Copy to library” or “Leave files in place” then exporting to QuickTime (h.264)

Thanks Jeff, what I meant was with no editing, let’s say ingesting just one clip from an AVCHD(h.264) SD card and export that one file to a QuickTime(h.264). So my question still holds: Is that a re-wrap with no quality loss or a decode/encode process with potential quality loss.
Yair Bartal
September 2, 2016 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

Well, the guy who did the AVCHD to QuickTime conversion probably did use “Create optimized media”.
I’ll have to check the other way. Thanks.
Yair Bartal
September 2, 2016 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

Gary, I’m not flippant and I apologize if this is the impression you’ve got.
We may have a different definition of re-wraping vs re-compressing.
As far as I know re-wraping means no transcoding from one codec to another.
Once you ingest into the library, you do transcode once from h.264 to ProRes.
Then you export from ProRes to QuickTime with h.264 codec, that means you transcode again.
IMHO there’s no way you can call this whole process from mts(h.264) to QuickTime(h.264) a re-wrap of h.264.
I’d be glad to learn otherwise if that is the case.
Yair Bartal
September 2, 2016 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

Hey Gary, you’re correct in that I should’ve added: “to the best of my knowledge”.
Now I’d appreciate if you can explain exactly how you used FCPX to re-wrap AVCHD into QuickTime, and especially what makes you sure this is indeed a re-wrap and not a re-compress process.
Yair Bartal
September 1, 2016 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

Thanks Gary,

FCPX does not rewrap AVCHD material into QuickTime.
That’s why tools like EditReady exist.
Yair Bartal
September 1, 2016 at 5:09 pm in reply to: search function in media browser

Windows Explorer does search inside folders.
Yair Bartal
September 1, 2016 at 4:59 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

The reason is: We are a group of docs creators sharing two cameras and thus it happens that several projects are spread over several SD cards (I know it’s not a good practice). That one lady wanted her project’s material backed up for her separately on her portable disk.
It was easy to choose and pick up her files via FCPX and export those as single files (without the AVCHD folder structure which includes other projects).
Yair Bartal
September 1, 2016 at 4:33 pm in reply to: Just making sure: Converting AVCHD (h.264) to MOV (h.264) via FCPX before editing in PPro means one generation quality loss

Thanks Shane,
Well, the reason is my colleague already did the conversion and I wanted to make sure that isn’t the right route.
Indeed, practically I couldn’t see the difference.
Yair Bartal
August 28, 2016 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Overlapping and Erasing Footage

OK thanks.
That seems to be quite far from how the FCPX’s magnetic timeline works.
Yair Bartal
August 28, 2016 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Overlapping and Erasing Footage

Thanks Alex.
I’m not sure how this nondestructive overlapping works, but does it behave like the magic timeline in FCPX?

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