Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines

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T Payton

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FCP X can't create a custom resolution timeline... or can it? I'll show you how to create custom resolution timelines quickly in Final Cut Pro X.

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Re: Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines
by T. Payton

Lutz -

I recorded this on a 2006 MacPro (1,1), 13GB of Ram. Radeon 5770, 10.6.8. The stock footage is 1080p Photo Jpeg format. My events and project drive is a OWC eSATA 8TB RAID (about 150MB/sec).

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

Re: Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines
by Lutz Leonhardt

Hi

I would like to know which mac you are working on. It looks really fluent, so what machine is it?

Great Tutorial, I can really use it to create a 1998x1080 timeline for digital cinema, great and thank you. Apple should implement this immediately in the box 'custom resolution'.

best regards from Zürich

Re: Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines
by T. Payton

Thanks Steve.

Of course I completely agree. I thought at first that it was a technical issue and Apple restricted resolutions, but I was pleasantly surprised that after testing every odd format I could think of (12000x480 for example), that is not the case. In fact FCP X can support anything that Motion can do.

It is very apparent that the FCP team needs to scrub the app with a fine tooth comb--with FCP 7 or other NLE in one hand and FCP X in another--to ensure editors have the capabilities we need ( a pixel aspect ration setting for clips is another glaring example).

On another positive note as I was preparing this tutorial I saw that on my setup FCP 7 can't play any non-broadcast resolution sequence without rendering. So a project like the vertically mounted 720 display would have been a horrendous task in FCP 7. FCP X has some serious power and flexibility under the hood. We just need the controls to take advantage of it.

- T.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

Re: Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines
by Stephen Martin

T Payton, this is a great tutorial. I've had several people write me about how to do this. I only wish Apple would just give us a custom setting so we would have to go through this ridiculous workflow.

Re: Tutorial: Advanced Tips for FCP X: Custom Resolution Timelines
by Jeremy Garchow

Nice work, T Payton.

I'd like it thrice if I could.

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