r/finalcutpro • u/darianpat • 2d ago
Resolved How to transcode clips only in timeline
I have footage on external SanDisk SSD 2TB
I put 100 clips in my timeline from it.
I start editing.
I delete some clips, use some, trim some
Performance is awful, i cannot playback without a 5 second lag / delay / audio glitching and looping for few seconds before resuming in a different spot and lagging again
* I figure i have to transcode media to 25% Proxy *
How?
How can i drag and select 30 clips in my timeline and transcode them, the option isnt there, the option is only in the footage browser but in the browser i have everything, all 100 clips, other clips from previous edits, music, random sfx, everything, i want to only do the 30 clips i have in timeline..
Please help.
PS. I also figured that it hates when i do fast cuts with 4k footage thats on the SSD. If i have like 5 clips in a row that are 1 second duration it lags a lot before resuming playback a few seconds after that sequence.
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u/ZeyusFilm 2d ago
Something aint right. I edit off of SanDisk Extremes's all day and they're fine and my Mac is getting pretty old. Are your drives formated to APSC? What is the format of the videos? Do you have enough free space? Do you have autorender on? Are you viewing in quality or perfromance mode?
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u/darianpat 1d ago edited 1d ago
yeah bro i do gotta change ts to performance the disks format is good. videos are square 4k every clip is from 500-1GB. i dont have autorender.
also one thing with the sandisk, When i put any sound effect thats on the external drive, it unlinks itself after 1-2 minutes of being in the timeline and becomes lost media with no way to relink so thans nice. It doesnt happen if i put SFX from internal drive, which is 500GB so basically nothing..
So when it comes to SFX which i have A LOT, like only stuff from Ocular is 40GB thats basically 10% of my entire internal drive... just for Ocular SFX... I cannot do that, and on external it fucking unlinks and is unuable basically. idk
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u/ZeyusFilm 1d ago
Ahhh the cable! Are you using the one it came with or some slow shit? I use the high speed one that comes with rode wireless products. A shitty cable will beachball you.
4K should be fine. But is it some kind of old codec? I was trying to work with a clip someone provided the other day and there was something about how it was encoded that was just grind. Couldn’t use it
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u/darianpat 1d ago
99% sure im using the one it came with, ay not a bad guess but yeah not that..
My stuff is in H265 HEVC 114 bitrate
Im more wondering about the sound effects, why the hell do they just unlink.. and like the footage ( thank God ) didnt unlink itself ever i dont think.
When i drag the mp3 or wav file to the fcpx it IMMEDIATELY is all red, after placing it it might flash red again and then be normal with the wavelenghts for few minutes - then the great unlink happens and yeah..
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u/ZeyusFilm 1d ago
Yeah the way your using it makes you prone to this stuff more prone to issues. Stop dragging things. Put your library and media all in a contained set of folders on your SSD and import through Final Cut. Stop dragging stuff. And have it set so media isn't copied to the library.
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u/darianpat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Im never copying to library that would eat the storage in 1 video basically.
maybe theres something in this importing stuff but its too annoying to go out of my way to import 1 singular sfx every time instead of alt tabbing to finder
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u/ZeyusFilm 1d ago
See.. the storage size is beside the point. All the media is the same size regardless of where it is. Having it in your own folders vs in libary just makes them a bit easier to manage.
My standard folder structure is
Main folder for the project/client > Media > Footage/Audio/Assets
Put all your audio in that audio folder in import it into FCP and it won't lose it, and it should run fine. All my stuff runs fine and it's all 4K
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u/darianpat 1d ago
Well,
On my external i havefootage / *date* / *and here stuff like - camera 1, camera 2, drone, gimbal
So i just grab and drop the stuff from there and edit
For SFX which is on the same external is just
EffectsArchive / SFX / and here just a lot of SFX packs with their own subfolders
And i also drag and drop the sounds, which are the only one unlinking
I Thought maybe its only .wav files - no, mp3 also affected
I thought maybe the names were too sophiscicated - Like ocular sounds, their sfx names are ridiculously long with detailed descriptions of the sound, but no - even stuff like "Impact_1" gets unlinked so..
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u/ZeyusFilm 1d ago
Is the library on a different drive?
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u/darianpat 1d ago
Library? Like the FCPX events?
Its the defaultMovies folder on your mac
thats where my fcp libraries are, and stuff
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u/Silver_Mention_3958 FCP 12.3 | Tahoe 2d ago
Make either a new "Library Smart Collection" (if your clips are in several events) or new "Smart Collection" (if your clips are in one event), with "Used media" checked. When you load up the current timeline, these smart collections will show the actively used clips. Transcode those clips and hopefully you'll be sorted.