10.1 XML Import Test – Appears to be DOA

[Lance Moody]

I am cross posting to say that I did export an XML timeline from X and then reimported back into X and it went perfectly.

Lance

[David Roth weiss]

[David Roth Weiss] ” I’ll acknowledge something is clearly wrong here if you guys are getting different results.

I’ll try a system reboot and see if that affects anything.”

Okay, rebooted system and now XML works. Odd, since I’d just rebooted the machine before testing.

Sorry for creating a stir everyone.

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[Andrew Richards]

[Erik Lundberg] “The XML from 10.1 seems to be very much the old familiar xml version 1.0 we (or at least some of us) has been staring at for (in my case) at least 8 years now (including the ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″? -tag…). They might have had to make up a bunch of new markers and tags and stuff to get this working, but it’s not that alien as what they threatened us with in the FAQ.”

XML v1 and UTF-8 encoding is just the standard header for XML syntax. The FCP X DTD is fcpxml, which is new. The DTD for legacy FCP was xmeml.

Apple has not yet posted developer documentation for FCPXML (aka AXEL).

Best,
Andy

[Erik Lundberg]

Agreed. And nerely every piece of software that we use that thrives on XML has their markup base. Yes, they’ve had to change things around inbetween 7 and X, but that’s far from inventing a new and improved secret way of writing XML (remeber, “XML was stoneage, and we now have found the holy grail of markup languages!” according to apple just a while back). Of course it couldn’t be the same XML. X does things that 7 didn’t (and in some ways didn’t need to). Now it’s more of the wait and see-game to find out who makes the feature usable (apart from exporting and importing back into X)…

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Chris Harlan]

[Erik Lundberg] “Either way this reassures me that there now are means to get things (with a little translational help) into this island to and from other vessels.”

If what I’ve seen is correct, we are going to need quite a bit more than translational help to get on and off this island. First off, you are going to need a pretty good pendulum to track the island’s movements–we have one here in LA–and you are going to need a submarine since the Island itself is blocked from view by some sort of time distortion barrier. Of course, a good storm might throw your ship there, and you CAN enter by plane, but it is a rough ride in.

[Ricky Dominguez]

Final Cut Pro X XML Format:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FinalCutProX/Reference/FinalCutProXXMLFormat/FinalCutProXXMLFormat.pdf

[Mark Morache]

[David Roth Weiss] “To most human beings I know the term “rich” does not imply different, it implies better.”

Yes, and the term “version ten” implies three steps up from version 7, not a giant step sideways. #snark

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Daniel Frome]

Yeah, they didn’t fix anything. They implemented a new version of XML that isn’t backwards compatible with FCP, or cross-compatible with Premiere Pro, or even Logic Studio.

They are touting the name “XML” as if it carries the same weight as the XML standard we’re used to hearing about, yet nothing works with it.

They might as well have named it “XML-X” format.

[Andrew Richards]

Well, it seems AXEL ain’t the same as FCPXML. So I was wrong to conflate the two. AXEL is some other thing according to Philip Hodgetts.

Best,
Andy

[Kim Hill]

FCPX has a different data structure, compared to FCP7. It’s not about a “new and improved secret way of writing XML.”

There’s no simple solution here. Different data structures just don’t map to one another. There are ways to bring FCP7 material into FCPX, but it’s a matter of how much organization you’re willing to shed, because there’s no way to map one structure to the other, 1:1.