How do I get FCPX to render through Compressor?

TThe finder info window is useless. Need the info from the inspector in the QT player. I see the markings on the clips in the browser. That's not good. Can't see the clip in the browser, but see it in the timeline. Is that the only clip in the timeline?

OPen the background task window and see what's happening. If anything let us know what. If nothing relaunch the application holding OPT-Cmd to reset the preferences to the default state.

IMage Capture really shouldn't be used for this. Not sure how well it works in a new OS with a new model phone.

TThe frame rate shows as 41.7. I see what's happening. Despite the very bright area of the burner, the image is quite dark. To record at a high frame rate you need a very fast shutter speed and that needs a lot of light. I suspect in those lighting conditions the phone goes to the best frame rate it can. That's unfortunate because you end up with these crazy non-standard frame rates. The phone also changes frame rates randomly. I set it to 30fps, the room gets dark and the frame rate drops to 24. It brightens again and the frame rate goes up to 30 again. It's really stupid to do this kind of thing with video, but there it is.

IS this the only clip in the project? Can you export just that one clip? It should work. Did you reset your preferences? What's happening n the background task window.

You are mixing a bunch of separate issues in this.

One is the matter of importing from iPhone - and you got it covered. Image Capture just copies the file as it is, so I it is not a problem.

Another one is the actual video capture on the iPhone. Tom has already explained why that is not really recorded at 240fps, despite your expectations.

Yet other issues deal with retiming and exporting. Your screenshot shows something is happening with the clips in the browser. One of them is missing, and the second, which appears to be one you are using in the timeline, shows a badge with the rotating thing. I think that is where you need to focus.

Show us both how the clip and the project appear in the browser.

I am assuming by "Browser" you mean the full screen shot of FCPX and here is the screen shot. If you need something else let me know.

The browser is the area where you see what clips and projects are in your events - marked in red in the image below.

What we'd like to see is how clip IMG_4374 appears there. We can see a clip IMG_4572 in red and with a camera badge on it.

When a project uses such a clip it won't export. Does IMG_4374 also appear in this way in the browser?

Revisiting this thread, and throwing in my 2¢.

It seems to me that Final Cut often does get confused with unusual frame rates.

As a test, I might duplicate the file and bring it into Compressor (or AME) and in Pro Res 422 retime it to something like 59.94 – using one of the better re-timing quality choices.

Then bring that file into FCP,. It may be a hash of a result, but it's worth a try.

Russ

Did you trash your preferences?

If you select the project in browser and click the share button and nothing happens I would give up on this library because it's clearly a bit of mess. Make a new library. Import the clip. Make sure it's fully imported. Make a new project. Set the custom project properties; you can't use the default setting because the clip is vertical and the format/frame rate is non-standard. Put the clip in it. Make the speed adjustment and export.

Put the clip in the project. Select the clip and in the inspector set spatial conform to fill. Select the clip and set the retiming menu to automatic speed. Use the speed controls to adjust the speed to whatever you want.

Glad you got it going.