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Aleisha Hamilton Paspuel

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  1. Thank you so much and thanks for having me! Your reply is great and very clear! Yeah FCPX is definitely a "gem" at times, I have been thinking about starting a cloud membership and trying out adobe, just to this point I have not had the time to learn a new program and it has been economically more in my interest to keep with FCPX. This scenario is making me think twice though.... A couple more newbie questions: When I transcode the rd3 files into Pro Res 422, does it change the footage from 4K to a high def version (1080p)? In other words, do I lose information? The reason why I wonder is because the people shooting the footage told me that they shot wide with the RED in many instances so in post the editor could crop to the closeup that they wished. Could I also get by with not applying the LUT? On previous advice I have been told to leave everything as is until the actual color grading, as the application of an LUT could create some hurdles and loss of information in that department. I am also assuming frame rates would remain the same after transcoding. Sounds like a really dumb thing to question, but hey I have walked into landmines before so now I always ask the dumb questions. Again thank you so much, Aleisha
  2. Hello! I am a neophyte asking for some advice. I edit with FCPX and with a recent project have needed to start working with RED (rd3) files in FCPX. I have never done this and am very unfamiliar with just about everything. I am beginning to realize that I am not understanding several things, and would like them clarified. First off, I was taught to always click the box "create optimized media" when importing footage, but never really understood what exactly this did. I did this with the rd3 files, they took forever to import (about 12 hours) and the "transcoding and analysis" function in the background after 24 hours was only at 5% and kept starting over. I turned it off. My question is, did I ruin something by doing that, and should I have done that at all? Should I have neither checked "create optimized media" to just import as is? My goal is to edit the footage (actually a mix of footage from a Canon 5D Mark III and the RED) into something, then do the color grade on the final project in DaVinci (a program I am also new to). What is the best way to go about this? I have a feeling that life will be much easier if I do my homework now, rather than halfway into the project. What tips do you have for me as far as the best way to edit with RED in FCPX? I did download the RED Apple Workflow Installer, and am on a 2011 MacBook Pro, 16 GB 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 if that helps. Editing with a USB 3.0 from external hard drive. Thank you so much, any tips are greatly appreciated!
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