I shot a video recently on my iPhone 14 Pro Max at 4k Prores 24 fps. According to what I read, each minute should amount to about 6 Gbps. This video was 20+ minutes long. I tried importing into FCPX twice, with the phone connected using a lightning to USB-C cable, which we all know is slow as molases so I let it import, turned off the monitor and went to bed. The first time. The next day, I found an error.
The second time, today, I created a whole new library, in an external OWC 4 TB thunderbolt drive that is pretty fast, and has almost one free terabyte, and tried importing the video again. It showed me this error after probably half an hour.
When I click ok, the video seems to be imported, but it seems to me that it's still on the phone, because playback is almost impossible. It plays less than a frame per second, which would only make sense if played from the iPhone with the pathetic lightning connection. Any of my drives can play Prores in real time without any hiccups. Also, if I check the library, the size is just a few megabytes, so there's no chance it imported this, and it was set copy the file to the library.
After that I tried one more time, and same error. I wondered if the almost one terabyte free space I had in the drive was enough, so I looked up online and at 6 GB per minute of Prores video, if the video is 21 minutes to be safe, that gives me 126 GB, far below the 904 GB this drive has left.
Now I'm trying importing it via iMovie and see what happens, but again because of the pathetic lightning connector (great move Apple, put Prores on a phone with transfer speeds from 15 years ago), it's taking forever for just a 20 minute video.
Has anyone come across anything like this?
The second time, today, I created a whole new library, in an external OWC 4 TB thunderbolt drive that is pretty fast, and has almost one free terabyte, and tried importing the video again. It showed me this error after probably half an hour.
When I click ok, the video seems to be imported, but it seems to me that it's still on the phone, because playback is almost impossible. It plays less than a frame per second, which would only make sense if played from the iPhone with the pathetic lightning connection. Any of my drives can play Prores in real time without any hiccups. Also, if I check the library, the size is just a few megabytes, so there's no chance it imported this, and it was set copy the file to the library.
After that I tried one more time, and same error. I wondered if the almost one terabyte free space I had in the drive was enough, so I looked up online and at 6 GB per minute of Prores video, if the video is 21 minutes to be safe, that gives me 126 GB, far below the 904 GB this drive has left.
Now I'm trying importing it via iMovie and see what happens, but again because of the pathetic lightning connector (great move Apple, put Prores on a phone with transfer speeds from 15 years ago), it's taking forever for just a 20 minute video.
Has anyone come across anything like this?