Re: Apple article on Optimizing Media

[Bret Williams] "It is pretty much exactly like 7. If you have a proves timeline, and you output proves, no recompression occurs. It's a current settings output."

Guys. It's all good.

I said it's similar to Premiere not exactly the same.

If you have a total ProRes workflow, yes, X works pretty much like 7, minus reference files (which I personally use every day). X only exports self contained media (like Pr).

All of these other codecs that this post started with (the Apple doc on optimized media) FCPX does not allow you to compress to ProRes, so in essence, if using these codecs and you don't transcode before import, you will render everything upon output, which is similar to premiere (which always recompresses, expect in really super specific codecs/situations).

I understand there's a bit of smart rendering happening in FCPX especially when your footage ProRes type and output ProRes match with no effects on the timeline.

But the way it works, if using different codecs, FCPX does not work like fcp7.

You can't set everything to render as XDCam HD, for example, that only happens on output.

You cannot have a smart rendered DVCPro HD/XDCam/HDV (et al) workflow in FCPX.

Also, in the codecs that FCPX does allow optimization for, you can only transcode to regular ProRes. So if you have a mix of HQ footage and optimized media, that media will have to compress to HQ on output instead of passing it through.

There are similarities to fcp7, but it's not exactly the same.

That's all I meant.