Final Cut 7 roundtrip

[Ola Haldor voll]

It can be a number of problems. The last show I started on turned out to have a bunch of AVC Intra stuff, which Resolve didn’t like. So I went to find the files in Finder, converted them to Prores, and imported the files.

Some times I can’t find the issue at all, so I “bake” the clip. In FCP I set I/O, export. Then import and replace in Resolve.

The first and only time I tried using multi clips in Resolve was a disaster. So I baked it, and manually sliced the thing.

What exactly do you mean by I have tried collapsing all the multiclips? What procedure did you do?

[Yurii Hydrick]

Thanks for the reply! To collapse the multiclip, in FC, I just right click on the clip and select “collapse multiclip.”

I could see AVC Intra being problematic, however none of my footage is anything other than ProRes 422HQ. And I’ve considered “baking” it, but I’d prefer to avoid destructive editing processes. I’m grateful for your suggestions, do you have any other thoughts or ideas? Thanks again.

Best

[Bernard James]

same problem Here after exporting from fcp Xml.
Seem to be a random problem, everything is in prores!
some .mov doesn’t appear in the média pool after a independant import.
few shots come from 5dmark2, other from AE annimation?
Any clues?
tks
Bernard

[Ola Haldor voll]

So if you Browse to the folder where the material is, can you see the files missing? If not, they’re in a codec not supported.

As for “collapsed multi clips” I’m not sure. Gotta test it before I say anything about that.

[Bernard James]

Yes exactly, The files are in the folder but not in the média brother:
It realy is a problem of codec, but the anoying stuf is that They are encoded in prores! So difficult to identifiate.
What was appenning! some of those files were encoded in AE from annimation codec to prores. The bug seems to be here!

regards
Bernard

[Yurii Hydrick]

Thank you for helping with this, Ola.

The collapsing the multiclips isn’t really the issue. That was just one method, of many, that I used to try and troubleshoot the real issue, which is:

Resolve can’t reconnect all the media properly. A large chunk of clips stay unconnected because of timecode issues. If I force conform them, they still don’t line-up with the proper timecodes. (I don’t see why there would be any codec issues, as every single clip is ProRes422HQ 23.98).

Even many of the clips that do reconnect properly the first time, do not line timecode up correctly, so I would have to go through every one of those shots and slide them until they are correct. Make sense?

I have figured out a work around, that is not ideal – but will work for now:

In FCP, as the timeline is prepped to go into Resolve, every single shot has to be match framed (hit “f”) then overwrite inserted, so that the multiclip is no longer associated at all – but each shot is source only. It’s a bit of a pain, but it appears to work, in terms of timecodes lining up properly. There still have been a few minor issues with the clips even connecting… but only a few.

I’ve tried this on three different machines, at different locations, using the same workflows and codecs as prescribed by blackmagic’s user manual… so I now it’s not just a fluke from my machine.

I’m just confused as to why nobody else appears to be having the problem except me and Bernard. Again, thanks for any help.

Yurii