I've been able to export out a project as an Image Sequence of DPX files. But. The end result has a transparent red bar slashed across each frame. I'm wondering if I need to get some extra Quicktime Pro enabling plug-in?
FCPX is not 'reading' the DPX files it created. Quicktime will not play the files. I have no trouble making TIFF sequences this way. But I need the DPX.
Any ideas or suggestions?
FCP doesn’t import image sequences let alone DPX.
In Compressor if you use File>Add Image Sequence and select the folder with the DPX files it should open as a job and appear in the viewer. I have no problem with 26 seconds of files. Playback’s a little skippy but the frames are all there.
What are you using to read the DPX file that created the image?
Compressor can open an image sequence of DPX files.
Movies are compel;etely different from stills. They're a single file that relies on the hard drive for playback and the processor to decode the signal. 1000 still images that have to playback as video sequentially have to be stored in VRAM and processed through the graphics card.
How long's the image sequence? How many stills depending on frame rate?
DPX image sequence exported from FCP, which is same engine Compressor uses, can open in Compressor as an image sequence.
You must have some plugin installed that’s not standard to the OS. Maybe something through Adobe or something else. Normally the DPX files appear as a generic icon and don’t show anything.
I've been running through my video player apps, and none can 'see' the DPX files. And when I try to import them back into FCPX ... FCPX doesn't recognize the format. Mmm. I'm going back to Compressor (which created the file) to see if it will also 'read' what it's created. Will report back.
Nada. Just tried to import the DPX files as an Image Sequence into Compressor. Compressor doesn't recognize the file format ... as an Image Sequence. But it does recognize the single files. Though when I try to import the collection of single files ... they come in as distinct and separate files and actually crash Compressor.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
16 GB RAM
I don't think that's playing a part. I've exported out 6-8K movies from this little laptop. No issues. There's something about that band of red that's telling me maybe I need some Quicktime plugin, or something?
Heading out into traffic. Will check in in about an hour.
Hi Tom, Luis,
Compressor > File > Add Image Sequence ... and I limited the DPX files to a hundred or so in a folder. And was able to pull at least a few seconds of the DPX scene into Compressor. Which is enough. I just wanted to see if FCPX & Compressor could produce a decent DPX sequence. Last year FCPX was producing the DPX files, but stripped, for some incomprehensible reason, of the colour grading or effects that had been added. I vaguely remember a complicated work-around we did with Resolve.
Thank you Tom. It works. I've been encouraging my brother to do his own in-house colour grading on two IMAX films they've just finished editing. And pitching FCPX. I colour graded one of his IMAX films last year, using FCPX, just on the MacBook Pro, and the results were comparable to the big high-end proprietary studio grade. The only bug back then, was getting a decent DPX version of the master. Which looks like it won't be a problem this time around. So I'm re-pitching FCPX to the boys. Who are much more open to it now.
To add a note. When I look at the individual DPX files in the Finder Window ... the thumbnails display a red bar across the image. You can see an example in my first post of this thread. When I bring those very same files into Compressor to play, they play normally and there is no bar.
It would be nice to know why the thumbnails are displaying the red bar ... all I can think of is I need a particular QT plug-in added to the OS so the MacBook Pro will recognize the DPX files in thumbnail mode.
Will see what I can find out. I do have a bunch of older Adobe apps (Premiere etc.) that I rarely use. But which will have installed their own support stuff. And from the sound of it I think I can just ignore that red bar. In fact, I'm going to take the test over to the cutting room of the IMAX guys and try these DPX files on their system ... maybe there will be no red bar at all. I'll report back what I find out. Just for the record.
Thank you kindly for your help Tom, always much appreciated ...
Ben
How many images do you have? How much VRAM and graphics card?
What is the program you used to view the dpx files, and in which you got that red bar? I tried exporting dpx but I don’t have any program that can open the files.
I can’t find an app that will play the files. I’ll be out there looking again after dinner. Neither FCPX ir Compressor seems to recognize the DPX files as an Image Sequence.
I will try tomorrow. The first time I tried it Compressor crashed. Will report back.
Interesting. Thanks for the background.
FCPX and DPX files?
