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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
Play to marker; play from marker - 3 years agoI have searched here and on line, but no results. Did these commands die with FCP 7? I know they existed on Ken Stone's keyboard shortcuts template. So: re. FCPX: Play to marker, and play from marker. Can anyone enlighten?by Kit L - Café LA - X How to paste clip up to playhead or marker - 4 years agoI am doing quite a few YouTube clips these days, and use Titlemations and other Ripple goodies. I know there's a command to paste a clip above the primary storyline (ideally up to the playhead, say for end titles) but I cannot remember what the command is. Paste up to a marker would be just as useful. TIA, KLby Kit L - Café LA - X Re: How to restart transcoding after manually stopping it - 9 years agoOr is the alternative to simply delete the references to the footage whose transcoding had to be stopped (in the Event), and re-import? Restarting the transcoding would be simple and quicker for me. KLby Kit L - Café LA - X How to restart transcoding after manually stopping it - 9 years agoHello all, I needed to stop the automatic transcode during import; once I had moved the new Library that was accidentally being created on my systems drive to the correct RAID, and on re-opening the library once more, I expected the transcoding process to resume, but it did not. Only 10% or so of the original media files have been transcoded, but I cannot see how to restart the process. Inby Kit L - Café LA - X Re: Taking first steps in FCPX; a q. about where to place Events and Sequences - 10 years agoNah: leave them both there: emphasis! Cheers, KLby Kit L - Café LA - X Re: Taking first steps in FCPX; a q. about where to place Events and Sequences - 10 years agoOK: you linked to the same video twice to make sure I got it? I got it! Thanks, KLby Kit L - Café LA - X Re: Taking first steps in FCPX; a q. about where to place Events and Sequences - 10 years agoThanks Russ, I was thinking "Project" and wrote "Sequences"... Projects is what I meant. I will watch both videos, too. Cheers, KLby Kit L - Café LA - X Taking first steps in FCPX; a q. about where to place Events and Sequences - 10 years agoHello all, A voice from the past. System: quad-core 15" MBP, i7, 8GB RAM, SSD and Thunderbolt mirrored RAID, and second Thunderbolt drive. After working my way through much of Steve Martin's tutorials, and reading some blog posts by Larry Jordan, and just about to start a project that will have ~50 sequences that will be output as separate videos for an ePub, my question is this:by Kit L - Café LA - X Re: Advice on software to use for turning speech on video into a transcription - 10 years agoJoining this thread in case there is such a beast; I could use this today.by Kit L - Café LA Re: O.T. - 10 years agoSorry for the appearance of drifting, Dennis; if I am using the language loosely, it is not deliberate vagueness, it's a lack of understanding the proper terms. I appreciate your help sincerely. I always transcoded the Sony NEX footage I have been shooting until now, but as a result of cranking up our web based business, I wanted to avoid the transcoding time needed, and hence the other threadby Kit L - Café LA Re: two conform questions, and a followup about QT Edit - 10 years agoExcellent, Dennis and Derek; thank you. Assuming a 720p/30 timeline (GH3 footage), what's the easiest/fastest technique to bring B roll 720p/60 footage from a camera that does not have the 30fps as a selectable option? I have used time change in the past, and that approach does have the advantage of letting me use the original as a 1/2X slo-mo, but if the intention is simply to change the fraby Kit L - Café LA Re: two conform questions, and a followup about QT Edit - 10 years agoDennis, Thanks for that info. re. Cinema Tools. Re. QT Edit: I looked at Jon Chappell's QT Edit, but from the description, could not see that it could do what you said it could. It's a trivial price, but did I understand you correctly—QT Edit can do what CT promises (but can't deliver?). Sorry to ask the question again, but I am hyper-literal! Thanks, sincerely, KLby Kit L - Café LA Re: two conform questions - 10 years agoDennis, which tool in the Quick Edit toolbox can do that? This is the only info I could find on it on his site: QT Edit Edits QuickTime movies. You can add and remove media, edit timecode information, modify chapters, change metadata and more. All changes are displayed in a real-time preview window. Media files can also be batch edited. I would like to use the best tool to conform 720/60pby Kit L - Café LA Re: Best (highest quality; smallest files) compression for web delivery update - 10 years agoUpdate: The finished files are the best of the lot, so far. I now have two 853 x 480 videos at 1,000Kbps, and both are very manageable sizes (290 and 335Mb, from memory; they are on the other machine); the artifacts and macro-blocking is minimal, and the video looks clean and the sound perfectly adequate for the intended use; and the self-contained files allow other conversions/compressions toby Kit L - Café LA Re: Best (highest quality; smallest files) compression for web delivery - 10 years ago@ Gerard: Wow. Two reasons: this first is that using your recommended 'Export as self-contained QT movie', then sending that file to Compressor speeded up the process considerably, but when I went back to that article you linked to, I realised that I had not set up my cluster as a four core cluster. This is the result: Over 90% CPU time devoted to compressing. This is a huge stepby Kit L - Café LA Re: Best (highest quality; smallest files) compression for web delivery - 10 years agoI thought I had posted a second time yesterday, but maybe not. I did try strype's suggestion: QuoteYou can try going down to 853x480 and try to go at around 800-1000kb/s and see if the quality is acceptable. But as you warned, Compressor can be very slow; it reported a time of 16+ hours to do this job... so that's not practical. So, today, Dennis's suggestion. I like this idea, becausby Kit L - Café LA Adobe Premiere - 10 years agostrypes wrote: QuoteNow, I'm not saying that Premiere is a magic box and it will let you edit 60fps 5K RED footage on a 2008 Macbook Air off a thumbdrive with real time down scaling to 1080p slowed down to 24fps, and still play through a blur and dissolve without rendering. Why not? That just cracked me up, Gerard: perfect. I use a quad-core i7 15" MBP for all my editing and phoby Kit L - Café LA Re: Best (highest quality; smallest files) compression for web delivery - 10 years agoDennis, thanks. I know that what I am trying to do is heresy in the broadcast world, but a 1.47Gb file is punitively large in the web-based 'watch on the iPad' world of instructional video. It is simply a time-it-takes-to-download disincentive, for a $1.99 program. Not Hollywood, by any stretch of the imagination! My competitors are using a frame size of 800 x 450 to get the 16:9 format, anby Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoThanks Gerard: what you write and both videos are very helpful. I was surprised to see that the footage the editor used in the first video all had different timebases—I came back from a shoot in Spain last year with just this scenario, and most of this footage remains unused for this reason. To be able to shoot the GH3 as ACam and another camera shooting a different format as emergency cover isby Kit L - Café LA Best (highest quality; smallest files) compression for web delivery - 10 years agoHello all, I have a 70 minute program, edited in FCP7, shot in 1920 x 1080/24p, and edited using ProRes 422 (created via ClipWrap from Sony NEX 6 AVCHD files). I want this material available via an pay-to-download site. I have polled my viewers, and most will view on a laptop or iPad. I have been experimenting with outputting 720p for web "HD" delivery. I have been experimentinby Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoLoren, hi—I have one of your key guides in my desk at all times! Good to hear about PP in this regard, too. But I have been studying many of the tutorials available on FCPX... if combined with sparse bundles, I feel a lot of the media management problems that people spoke about when FCPX was released can be avoided. And I have been re-reading folk's comments here, too; I was particularby Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoFrancois, that cracked me up! I only need the equivalent of a typewriter (to continue the analogy with the copyists) in comparison to what FCPX can do (cuts on a two-camera shoot, supers, dissolves sometimes, and very little post).by Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoJude and Gerard: thank you. I feel that the transition to Premiere will be the simplest; and getting the keyboard to work in a similar way is great. And Jude, the fact that you are using P yourself for me is not bias: it's gold! I had a look at the titling capacity too; just what I need. Thanks and over and out from me.by Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoJude: interesting idea. By Quotechange the keyboard settings to the FCP7 set, do you mean that the FCP7 keyboard shortcuts are available as an option in Premiere CC, or that I will need to make these (no problem if the latter)? And looking at their tutorials suggests that APCC works more like FCP7 that FCPX does—is that how you see it? Another way of asking the same question: which do youby Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoThanks Gerard—oh, dear. Internet gurus, indeed. OK—advice to a basic/intermediate-level FCP7 user—how hard is it to make the transition to FCP X? My programs are very simple to what many do here: we shoot two cameras, sometimes with second system sound, syncing video and sound on the Timeline, and editing consists of a simple opening title (type on of website name with typing FX); and thby Kit L - Café LA Re: Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoThanks Gerard, I have a US-sourced GH3 on its way here; let me play with it, and come back here. By all reports on www.personal-view, the 50Mb/sec .mov option produces the best files, it can be re-wrapped quickly (vs. transcoding) using MPEG Streamclip. I definitely do not want to learn a new NLE, if I can avoid it; taken too long to learn FCP 7! I may consider FCPX, though.by Kit L - Café LA Panasonic GH3 .mov files: can these be ingested FCP7 without transcoding? - 10 years agoHello all, I am considering adding a GH3 to the stable; one of the attractions is that it records in .mov as an option; here's the relevant detail from the menu: 1920k1080/24p [72 Mbps (ALL-Intra)]/ 1920k1080/24p [50 Mbps (IPB)]/ Can these files be edited in FCP7 without transcoding? I have been using ClipWrap for the transcoding of the Sony NEX 6 AVCHD files, but when on the road thisby Kit L - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoTwo things, Derek: Can YouTube display 1080 footage?; I was not aware of that. I understand your suggestion of editing and finishing at 1080 though (effectively future-proofing any of the work, too) and then the resizing for specific uses; thank you. One more question: does one need special HDDs for this larger HD variant? I use FW800 drives as storage for my 720p footage; and I have neby Kit L - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoJude, thank you. Very helpful, and liberating, too! Now a more general question: assuming that hard drive space is not a problem, is it better to shoot in 1080 and output at 720 to have the best quality, web delivery wise? In the stills world, it is generally accepted that downsizing to a smaller frame dimension improves the visual quality (noise is decreased and, assuming you use the correctby Kit L - Café LA Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without losing resolution? - 11 years agoHello Derek, I just wanted to check that your response was to my slightly OT question! Let me get this straight (I am using FCP studio, latest version: I set up a new project, using (say) ProRes 422 LT, and pull in some 720p/60 (or 30) project and set the project to these parameters, then simply bring the transcoded Sony 1080p/60 footage in directly (and FCP simply displays it at the same sby Kit L - Café LA |
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