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FCP to color
I tried searching for this issue, but I didn’t find anything similar.
I have a sequence in FCP 6.0.5 with all it’s attributes removed, ready to “move to” Color. I followed the steps in the Lynda.com video, and I found a forum posting here with additional steps.
When I select the sequence, there are no clips highlighted. the sequence is even highlighted in the browser, and the timeline is the active window. When I choose “move to” “color”, I am prompted to name the color project, I click to accept the name, and Color launches. Color brings up an file open box for a brief moment and it goes away just as quickly. then the interface loads (slowly, all i see are 2 grey empty windows for a while). Once the program loads, there isn’t a single frame of footage brought over from FCP.
This isn’t a hardware issue since I have moved FCP projects to Color on this Mac before. I don’t know of any steps I am missing, but it doesn’t work.
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Do you have a bunch of empty video tracks? If so, turn delete all the empty ones and consolidate everything down to as few video tracks as possible.
I have a Tutorial right here on the Cow on prepping your timeline for Color.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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>Do you have a bunch of empty video tracks?
I don’t, it is all on V1, there is no V2 (i deleted it)
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How long is the project you are sending over, what codec is it in, and do you have an nested sequences in it?
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3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
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>How long is the project you are sending over, what codec is it in, and do you have an nested sequences in it?
length: 01:14:30;25
DVCProHD 108060i
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It’s recommended to keep the timelines sent to Color around 20 minutes or 200 edits. Try that and see if it helps.
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3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1) -
>It’s recommended to keep the timelines sent to Color around 20 minutes or 200 edits. Try that and see if it helps.
Are you suggesting I make it longer? it’s only 14 and a half minutes long right now.
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Ah, the way your previous post was written indicated that the timline was 1hr14min long which prompted me to say what I did.
Instead of using the Send to Color command have you tried to export an XML from FCP instead?
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3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1) -
yes, but I didn’t know how to then open it in Color.
i select it in the open dialogue but when I click the “open” button nothing happens (the box doesn’t close either).—————
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>Instead of using the Send to Color command have you tried to export an XML from FCP instead?
I exported an XML file and found how to import an XML file in color, but it still won’t open it.
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Visiting the Broadcasting Video Expo, I attended a seminar on FCP HD workflow presented by the BBC.
My notes are summarised at
https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/broadcast-video-expo-bbc-on-fcs/BBC graders…
1. Export a ProRes QT from FCP
2. Import that ProRes back into the source sequence
3. Blade the QuickTime to match the edits in the source sequence
4. Duplicate the source sequence
5. Delete all video and audio tracks from the sequence except the sliced ProRes movie
6. Move the movie to V1
7. Send to Color
8. Grade in Color
9. Export as ProRes from Color
10. Import the ProRes QuickTime to the duplicate sequence with the original edit
11. Add captionsalex4D
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