Can’t import FCP XML into Premiere 4.0.1

[James Reid]

Have you had a good look at the video:

“Kevan O’Brien, systems engineer for Adobe, demonstrates the workflow between Final Cut Pro and Adobe CS4 including the support for the Apple ProRes codec.”

https://www.studiodaily.com/main/minisites/adobepremiere/f/mwhatsnew/10122.html

Works for me with FCP 6.0.5

[Dale Hildebrand]

Yes, thank you, I’ve seen the video and my workflow is exactly the same. What I have discovered is that I can import xmls from FCP if the source material was ProRes. The problem I’m having is importing XMLs from FCP where the source material was Proxies from R3Ds.

Note: a friend is doing the same workflow with proxies and he is able to import the proxy-based XMLs. We are doing the same workflow. Not sure what I’m missing.

[Tim Kolb]

Are you trying to make it link to the media? …is that the point of failure?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Dale Hildebrand]

I’m not sure if that is what is taking place at the point of failure, but I “click” import” and and the yellow line streaks across as if importing is taking place, but nothing ever appears in the project window.

[Stephen Webb]

Dale (or anyone else), did you ever find a solution to this problem? We’ve just encountered the same issue.

[Stephen Webb]

Update – In my case this was due to an issue with Multiclips. Found a workaround in the end.

[Dale Hildebrand]

According to the Adobe team, they were telling me that it is a build thing and they will try to address this in build 4.0.2.

[Dale Hildebrand]

Oh, and try to make an xml without audio – it should import.

[Jonas Bendsen]

We’re experiencing a similar situation… trying to import Final Cut XML exports into Premiere after doing the sound sync in Final Cut.

Our Final Cut project file is referencing ,mov proxies generated from RED footage (.r3d).

The weird thing is, one asst. editor has been sending scenes as XML exports and they import into Premiere with no issue. Another asst. editor hasn’t been able to generate an XML that can be imported. Premiere always looks like it’s about to work (the yellow task bar), but then states that Premiere encountered a “generic error.”

You gotta love that… “generic error.”

So we’re not sure why one person’s XML files import with no issue, while the others is causing problems. They seem to be set up the same. I’m sure there’s one little box somewhere not clicked right, but currently we can’t figure out what it is.

Anybody with a solid answer?

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[Jared Nelson]

So, I have had the same problem as Jonas ever since I have updated to FCP 7. My only work around is to use one of our old computers that has FCP 6 on it. If anyone knows any better workarounds or fixes that would be greatly appreciated.