Okay, I know I'm asking too much here, but I've just got to ask. Is there any way to export 7d h264 footage from FCPX without recompressing or transcoding it?
Here's what I'm trying to do. I bring in h264 footage from my 7d and then sync it with my other audio sources. What I'd love to do when I'm finished with that is export all that footage in a single quicktime file. I don't want to transcode it to ProRes, and I don't want to make a reference movie. I just want to do this the way I used to shoot out DV footage with Same as Source compression.
When I do export same as source, I end up with a file nearly twice the size of the original media put together... so I'm guessing there's some kind decompression or transcoding going on there. I also don't want to take up more than twice the space on my drives when I don't need to. When I choose h264 as my export codec, I get a file nearly half the size of the original media combined. So there's got to be some data loss. I want my porridge to be just right. Is that to much to ask?
I'm willing to look at some kind of 3rd party program that can run off the XML from FCPX if FCPX can't handle it.
There's got to be some way to preserve the raw footage information while I export with the sync audio.