• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Sharing NOTES Fields from Multicam Clip in Browser? Is this possible?

  Posted by Christopher Dunning on October 25, 2018 at 5:47 pm

  Help. Looking for advice here…

  I’m working on a fairly simple editing job, but it’s my first one in several years and my FCPX skills are rusty. I’m also doing something I haven’t done before.

  The project is a single camera interview and I am following a workflow recommendation I found online (https://blog.frame.io/2016/11/02/make-fcp-x-log-better-2/) to Log and organize the footage:

  1. Place All Interview Clips (about 30 separate clips) into a Multicam Clip
  2. Put said Multicam Clip in a new Event.
  3. Use Browser in List View to review the Interview (as a Multicam Clip) and log and make notes in the browser using these next two steps…
  4. Assign Keywords as Ratings to ranges
  5. Add Notes for each Keyword Range to Log the interview.

  The logging is going fine, and I’m about halfway through 2.5 hours of interview footage. I want to be able to share the:

  – Notes
  – Keywords/Ratings
  – Source In
  – Source Out

  for each Keyword Range with another person.

  I have Producer’s Best Friend (https://intelligentassistance.com/producer-s-best-friend.html), but when I export an XML of the Multicam from the Browser, I don’t get the info. When I export an XML of the Multicam clip dropped into a Project Timeline, I get SOME of the Keyword Ranges and Notes and Markers, but not all.

  Is there any simple way to export the Notes, Keywords, Source In, and Source Out for a series of Keyword Ranges created in a Multicam Clip in the Browser?

  Joe Marler replied 7 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  October 25, 2018 at 6:07 pm

  I would hit up Intelligent Assistance support and see what they say.
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  Joe Marler

  October 25, 2018 at 7:35 pm

  [Christopher Dunning] “when I export an XML of the Multicam from the Browser, I don’t get the info. When I export an XML of the Multicam clip dropped into a Project Timeline, I get SOME of the Keyword Ranges and Notes and Markers, but not all.

  Is there any simple way to export the Notes, Keywords, Source In, and Source Out for a series of Keyword Ranges created in a Multicam Clip in the Browser?”

  The problem is some of those are stored as event-level attributes, not clip-level. The solution is export the entire event XML and send to the recipient — but that person must use the 3rd-party tool MergeX to combine those with his current event and not overwrite work he has done: https://www.merge.software

  I’ve done this as part of a collaborative workflow and it works fairly well. However —

  When loading event XMLs, it’s a good idea to previously back up the library at the file level. If something unexpected happens, you can revert to the previous version. Inspect closely the library and event status after loading the merged XML which MergeX produces. Look for things like spurious duplicate clips, duplicate keywords, etc. One you are confident of the workflow, stringent checking is not required.

  There is a bug in FCPX XML processing that can create spurious duplicate clips if the original disk filenames were not unique — even if they were kept in separate unique folders. This is especially a problem for Sony Alpha cameras which reset to C00001 with each fresh SD card, and do not allow camera-level control of the video filename. During ingest FCPX is supposed to internally append a unique suffix but it doesn’t always work right when combined with XML processing.

  The solution is rename all media filenames to be globally unique before ingest. This can be done with Finder or more powerful tools like A Better Finder Rename: https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/

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