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  • Troubles with BWFs and FCP4.5

    Posted by Alejandro Marin on March 4, 2006 at 7:07 pm

    SEBSKY TOOLS AND BWF2XML WILL TRANSFER ALL THE FILES I WANT TO .mov, BUT WHEN I IMPORT THEM INTO FCP 4.5 AND TRY TO OPEN CERTAIN FILES THE VIEWER WINDOW CLOSES AND I GET AN ERROR MESSAGE SAYING I’M OUT OF MEMORY. I’LL RESTART FCP AND SOME CONVERTED FILES WILL OPEN AND OTHERS WILL CAUSE THE SAME ISSUE. I BELIEVE WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THAT I’M WORKING IN FCP 4.5 AND THIS WON’T SUPPORT BWF POLYPHONIC FILES THAT HAVE MORE THAN TWO CHANNELS. THE SPHERICO WEBSITE CLAIMS THAT AN ERROR WILL OCCUR WHEN TRYING TO IMPORT THESE FILES. BWF2XML ALSO WORKS BEST IN FCP 5 WHICH I DON’T CURRENTLY HAVE ACCESS TO. IS THERE ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT WILL JUST LET ME SELECT WHICH TRACKS TO CONVERT? IS THERE AN OPTION WITHIN BWF2XML OR SEBSKY THAT ALLOWS THAT? THE FIRST TRACK ON THE BWFS I KNOW IS THE MONO MIX OF ALL THE AUDIO CHANNELS MY SOUND MAN RECORDED. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF I COULD JUST TRANSFER THAT FOR NOW. THANKS.

    CURIOUS JANDRO

    CURRENTLY CUTTING SHORT FILM “NO FORTUNE” IN DVCPRO HD (VARICAM)
    G5 DUAL 2.0GHZ, 5GB RAM
    TIGER 10.4.5
    QT 7 PRO
    FCP 4.5, KONA 2
    500 GB SATAMAXe DRIVE RAID

    Bret Williams replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Bret Williams

    March 5, 2006 at 2:10 am

    Nobody is going to read that. Turn off the caps.

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