Playback issues after importing/exporting 2k Drone footage (FCPX)

Try this: Import your a single representative clip of original media, bypassing Streamclip altogether. If necessary, to get real time playback, transcode to Proxy from the clip browser and in Viewer Options > Media, switch to Proxy. Create a new project and edit the clip to the project timeline. Apply whatever effects you have used in your problem project. When ready to export, if you used Proxy to edit, switch the Media setting back to Optimized/Original. From the Share menu, choose Master File and for Format choose Computer. Export and open in QuickTime. How does it look?

Russ

Oh wow wow wow... your mixing all together that can not work.

So first : 2k footage shot from a DJI Inspire drone: h.264 at 3840 x 2160 which framerate?

No need to convert it. Import directly in FCPX, be shure you activated in the preferences: create optimized media. These are ProRes! FCP uses this internal. Can take a mnute, but no hassle with it.

Drop the clip in a empty project. (Allow FCPX to create a project with the setting from your fist clip.) Now you are "native". Same size, same framerate best quality...

Edit your clips, do what you wanna do. After that export your movie as H264 in 2k, in your frame rate... should look great!!!

Have a nice day!!!

Hi Tony,

ok, that is difficult... or not really , but for your endquality this is no good startingpoint.

The problem are the different framerates not the size at all. Best would be to think before you start recording, what you will deliver. 24 frames is fine but mixed with 29 puhhhh. The drone material is cool footage, i´m shure, but it is not with talking people and so on... so a speed change is a little thing for these shoots.

So your main footage is 24, i would use 24 in my timeline. The reason is you uses you frames nativ, no speed hassle... you know. A 29frame timeline need 29 frames. when you put 24 in it it will slow down to 29. The quality will go down, you can see it, try it out.

So i would create a 24 time 1080, and add the dronematerial and adjust the timing of the clip. Use the timer tool and select automatic speed. So your drone clip will be pressed into the 24f but not by rendering with qualityloss, no it is now frame by frame in your timline with the best quality. It will show you a speedchange, but that is fine and yes the clip is a bit longer... for every second 4 frames more.. but that is fine. And the best... you can zoom in in the drone clips without loosing quality.

When there is a need to deliver 29frames, convert it AFTER the final edit. Export 1:1 in 24 in Prores , then import the master file in a other project with the 29 frame rate, retime with automatic speed. Now every frame is 1:1 in your new speed. It will play a bit faster (4frames per second more) but no picture quality loss.

This is what i would do.

Have a nice day!