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  • YouTube smash 'Despacito' shot in one day, edited on Final Cut Pro X

    RonnyCourtensRonnyCourtens
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    An $8,000 8K Red Epic Dragon video camera .... I'd like to read more about the process.  8K to Proxy generation and Apple Pro Res and the rendering time etc.   Type of Mac used ... come on so much more fun stuff to write about than viral viewing numbers (heck cat videos get that shot on an iPhone)  or even the music!  ;)
    The video was shot in 8K Red Raw. As they knew that grading would be external, they converted all the footage to ProRes 422 4K prior to editing and they edited the video in a 4K timeline. This gave them optimal visual quality for editing without having to deal with realtime debayering of the Red Raw footage on the timeline. There were no Proxies involved. They have a fairly standard setup with an off-the-shelf 2016 iMac and an Apple Thunderbolt Display, which is powerful enough for this workflow as well as for editing all their long-form multicam concert shows. When you work with ProRes 4K media on a 4K timeline in FCP X, you don't need to render anything on such a setup.

    I have written dozens of case studies about feature films and high-profile tv series cut with FCP X, and these have always been quite technical. Just a few examples:

    http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1895-organising-and-managing-480-hours-of-footage-in-fcpx-editing-one-of-europe-s-major-feature-films-of-2017

    http://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/1960-manuel-terceno-explains-why-he-used-final-cut-pro-x-to-edit-2-award-winning-spanish-movies-from-2017-and-a-prestigious-drama-television-series-to-be-released-in-2018

    In this case I deliberately left the technical details out because they were not really relevant to the story. This was more about the creative ideas behind the video, and about the powerful organizing and searching tools in FCP X that allowed the director and the editor to experiment with many different takes without wasting time trying to find the hero shots. As the video contains many slow-motion clips, I also wanted to explain the easy yet very powerful retiming functions in FCP X when working with hi-speed footage. 

    I don't find viral viewing numbers that important myself. But this video broke all historic viral records AND it has been nominated for Best Video for the prestigious 2017 Grammy Awards and the 2017 AMA Awards.  I have never seen a cat video shot on an iPhone do this (-:

    Hope this helps.

    Ronny
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