How to edit 4k Video In Fcpx
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hey guys what's going on so today I want
to go through a 4k workflow in Final Cut
Pro X now I'm assuming that you've
already worked with 1080p and an HD
workflow and now you're upgrading to a
4k workflow so I wanted to go through
that very quickly for you guys so what
you want to do is when you're in Final
Cut and you're going to import your
media earlier today I shot two clips of
violet playing catch so selecting these
two clips and when you come over here
you're going to leave the files in place
most likely they're going to be on
external hard drive for you leave them
in place also you want to make sure you
select create proxy media so select this
so create proxy media right there then
you select import selected and what it's
going to do now is Final Cut is actually
rewriting those files I come I can show
you right now it's working up here so
right up here it's creating a proxy
which is basically a file that's half
the size of your 4k pretty pretty close
to 1080p about HD but it's a very low
bitrate so what you do is click on view
here and you go to proxies so as you can
see these this file right here is still
being processed it already made it
through the first video clip but once
it's done creating the proxy we can
begin to edit now if you have a lot of
files let's say you shot 100 gigabytes
of 4k footage when you proxy all that
it's going to take some time you might
want to go grab a copy for 5 or 10
minutes it's going to take some time
before you can edit with the proxies and
where it stores the proxies is it stores
them in the Final Cut library so if you
have 100 gigabytes chances are it's
going to add probably 30 or 40 gigabytes
to your library which is the proxy media
which can be anywhere from one third one
fourth or for me because I shoot with
the 1dx mark - it's a motion
JPG Kotick my 4k footage is huge and it
ends up being about one-fifth the size
of the original files so once we have
our files here we can edit I'll just
select one of these clips of violet I'm
going to slow-motion the clip and as you
can see look how quick Final Cut
converted this clip to slo-mo it is very
very quick and what that is due to is
final cuts native editing codec is Apple
ProRes so Final Cut loves to work with
pro res and because this is now an Apple
ProRes proxy it can edit very very
quickly and as you can see right here in
the screen it still looks a very good
image I'm going to switch this clip back
now to optimize media so now you're
watching this is the original footage
streaming now and as you can see there's
a delay and there's a render it's
rendering it there's some shock to the
footage and my fans starting to come on
it is not you don't want to be editing
with the original 4k footage even if
your computer's fast there's really no
need because you're going to have a lot
more render times so let's switch back
to proxy here
and the proxy is very smooth now of
course it you're going to need a little
more storage for the proxy data and also
once you import it you're going to go
have to take ten feet ten you're gonna
have to go take ten or fifteen minutes
and let that process so we're going to
delete the second clip and this is the
easiest video I've ever had to export in
my life and the shortest I guess that's
15 seconds so when you go to export if
you're looking to have a master file
meaning a master file is something for
your records of the most high quality
the most high quality version of the
video you're going to click on mastering
video on audio and this is an important
little court to show you when you go
into format here part of you when you go
under video codecs here it's a source it
says
Apple ProRes proxy and what this is a
reminder for is right now anyway you
export your 4k video it's actually just
going to export the proxy which is what
you don't want so it's very important
which you cancel out of this you go back
and you need to select optimized
original media so now any your exporting
now is going to be beautiful 4k footage
first is mediocre looking very highly
compressed proxy and it's somewhat of I
don't to say an error and final cut but
it should be more clear when they show
you this because I don't usually export
a mastered video that's only for clients
if they want the original footage I'm
not going to upload a mastered video to
YouTube or to Vimeo but it shows you
here into the master video now my source
is Apple ProRes because it's going to
convert my files to Apple ProRes
and export them in the highest quality
but when I usually export
i under public I would select computer
there is the option for Apple devices
and web hosting but I don't want to send
the video to iTunes it's annoying to
pull it out of there then I want to send
it straight to my desktop so select
computer I have it becoming an mpeg-4
which is a great kind of the global
standard of video it's 4k 30 frames if
you shot it in UHD UHD will be an option
here and you select next and now you go
to your desktop you push save and you'll
be a 4k workflow save it you'll be good
to go and now as it's rendering you can
continue to work if you like but up here
it is actually sharing in the background
of the background task anyway guys I
hope this video has been helpful just
another reminder remember to switch from
the proxy view back to the optimized
original view otherwise your video is
going to not look very good because it's
not 4k it's a proxy and I did that the
first time and I kept looking at it like
this kind of looks good it looked a
little better than HD but it didn't
really blow me away like 4k and when I
finally got it optimized and my export
settings were correct the footage looked
beautiful and I was good to go so don't
make the same mistake as me anyway I'll
see in the next video peace
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