Another program to cut video up with before importing to FCPX?

Yeah, it's so strange that you can mark selections from a camera import, but not a File import.. so much for 'unified import'...

OK - got it at last!

Use FCP X Camera Import to make the files into a Camera Archive, then you can access that with Camera Import and mark your multiple selections as with 'Log and Capture'.

Then if you choose to, you can ditch the Camera Archive.

Andy

shippo_uk wrote:

Just realised this is now available within FCPX before importing on 10.0.6.

You can even select multiple parts from the one clip and it imports a s seperate clips.

as shown here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybDn1kzSYA

yummy

But only for importing from camera or camera archives. It would be really yummy if it also worked this way for quicktime files residing in your hard drive. Here's hoping for this in 10.0.7.

@Luis

Completely agree.

I've captured 5 hours of XBox360 footage, which was exported by the capture program as a 300Gb file. To my horror, not many programs can handle that size file.

In FCE/FC7, I could use the "Log and Capture" process to troll through such a file, pick out the clips of interest, and then trash the master file.

I can't do this in FCPX. FCPX will not treat this file as a camera, nor can I package it up into a camera archive, (to use FCPX's fuked up version of log and capture). After clues by Tom in a thread months back, I managed to create a disk image to fool FCPX into thinking it was seeing a camera filesystem, plopped my 300Gb file in there, and was able to convert the file to a camera archive.

But as previously stated in this thread, I too stumbled onto MPEG Streamclip. The one function that Streamclip has which FCPX doesn't is fast forward/rewind. I don't want to troll through a 5 hour video in realtime - I like doing it in 8x speed or higher. You cannt fast-forward/rewind in FCPX camera archive mode.

Pick out the bits I need, set in-out points, export to ProRes422, move to the next bit of footage...

Import the interesting bits into FCPX - done.

Don't know if this helps but I've always just copied my .mov files from my DSLRs into a folder - that's my archiving system - named whatever I felt like and then opened up the import window in X and selected the folder. The files all show up in both filmstrip and file modes. In 10.06, I can set multiple in and out points but I've never had any problems at all doing it this way.

I just tried right now to see if I could do the same from a card in a card reader. Same thing. The files all show up, I can select multiple ranges and import. No problem at all. All my jpegs in the same folder show up as well and I can import them, too.

I wonder if people are trying to import directly from the camera and that's what's causing the confusion. It is much faster to stick the card in a card reader and import from there. Importing directly from the camera is glacially slow.

Anyway, that's my system and I've never had any of the problems mentioned here. Always worked just like I wanted.

As far as that XBox video, Codewrench, if FCPX can edit it, it can also import it. I think you may be trying to import it through the camera archive when all you have to do is select the folder with video file in it through the import menu. Making it into a camera archive seems like an uneccesary step.

I have to do it the "archive" way in order to generate subclips independent of the 300Gb file. Doing it through in/out on the main 300Gb file means FCPX has to ingest that 300Gb file (which is not a problem as the file is already ProRes422) _and_ keep it around for the life of the project. I want to delete the 300Gb file as soon as I can.

FCPX is very picky about what it considers a "camera" file, and a file on disk. I can't use the "file on disk" method to produce independent clips, but I can when FCPX recognises the file as a "camera" file. The only way to do that is to copy the video to a disk image which looks like a camera filesystem.