Apple Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
Importing / Import Preferences
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Import Preferences. So let's look at the Preferences associated with importing files. Now we don't have a lot of Preferences at all, but we have some things that we can do when we're importing media. Now not only can we set them here, but when we're importing from a camera, we can set some of them there as well. So this is really the Global area here, and we can adjust those when needed when importing from camera. We're split into four different areas here, Organizing, Transcoding, Video, and Audio. Now as we do this, we're going to be able to not only do it here, but we can do it after the fact as well. So we're going to look at both of those in this tutorial. So the first section, Organizing. Copy files to Final Cut Events folder, do you want it to copy it to the folder that you're working in the Event, or do you want to leave it wherever it is out on your drives as you organize them yourself? This is a big issue for a lot of people, they want to be able to keep that control. I myself, just leave this on, because it's kind of nice to be able to be able put everything in one place, and not to have to worry about it. We can also import each of these folders as Keyword Collections, we're going to look at Keyword Collections a little more later on, but this is the primary way to organize and find media. So it's nice to be able to do that, but if you're going to be setting a bunch of Keywords yourself, and don't necessarily need the import folder to be one of those, you can deselect this. Transcoding, do we want to create an optimized format, this is the Pro Res 422, and this brings it into that format, which Final Cut Pro X really likes, and so it makes it more smooth in terms of playback, rendering, all of those things. We can also have it create a proxy media file. This is a smaller one and it really allows you to do a lot of stuff in terms of editing quickly, seeing how effects look quickly, and just really moving even smoother and quicker through that process. Now you don't have to use the proxies when you have them here, but you can have them created. You can do both of these later as well. The next two are some of the automatic fixes, so for Video, we can analyze for stabilization and rolling shutter. We can analyze for balance of color, we can have it find people so it's going to look and try to create collections based on people in the shots. We can also do some Audio things, so analyze and fix audio problems, separate mono and group stereo audio, and remove silent channels. Typically I actually will leave that one on, but if you're worried about it, maybe you think, well I should have had some audio here, and it's removing a silent channel, you might not even know you had a problem until you go looking for it. So these are all great things, but now let's look at how we can actually do these after the fact. So first of all, say we have this project going on here, we can come up here and do a few things. First of all, we can organize event files, that's another way of saying consolidate, or manage. It's really going to take all these, and pull them in to the Event Folder, wherever you established that here in your Event Library. We're going to look at the Library coming up, so we won't talk about it now, but it'll move it into that location. We can also transcode the media, so we can actually choose that right here, we don't have anything selected, so let's actually select it. And you can see that we don't have an option for that now, most likely because it already has been transcoded, which is fine. But that brings up another place where we can do this. Because we can come in here, to the info page, and see some of that information. So we have the information here, of the size of this, the type of audio, we have the name of the clip, a place for notes, start, end, duration, the codex, audio channel. So let's actually now come in here to General View, gives us additional information, Extended View. You can see a lot of information here, a lot of different Tags you can put on this. Audio View, all this Metadata we can enter in there about that, and continuing down. In addition to all that information about this clip, we can also come in here and say, Show File Status. So this is where we can see information about location, we can also see the available media representations, so we have the original and the proxy. We also have the Event that it's in, and it's also referenced in the other following ones as well. So essentially here, you can see that we've got all that information going on, so we have the original and a proxy. Another easy way to see this, check this out, if we come in here, to Playback, Use Proxy, check it out. So we don't have a proxy for this at that time, that's what the little triangle means. So this is the one time we're going to see this type of screen, is when you try to playback from proxy, but you don't have one. So let's come over here to our actual Event, Select it, Select that clip, come down here to Transcode Media, Create a Proxy, click OK, and now it's going to do that here. You can see the percentage of it, it's a short clip, it's already done. This goes green, and we've done this after the initial import, so we don't actually have to do any of this at the initial import, we can do it any point along the way. Now we can come in here to our Preferences, Playback, Use Proxy Media, and there it is. Okay, that's it for this particular part, discussing the Import Preferences.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple Final Cut Pro X |
| Author: | Sam McGuire |
| SKU: | 34254 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-007-7 |
| Release Date: | 2011-08-22 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 96 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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