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Final Cut Pro XML issue when imported in to PPro
I shot a music video for a friend who said he wanted to edit it himself as he couldn’t afford me doing it for him.
The footage was captured on a 7D in 1080p at 25fps.
He edited it together in iMovie 9 and being the nice guy I am, said I would clean up the edit for him and do the colour correction and grade however, having held his hand through the settings at which to ensure he is editing in and exporting, the XMLs I am getting are all standard def.
He got a conversion programme to make the XML a Final Cut Pro 7 compatible file but still it’s coming out at 720×480
He is adamant he is exporting with HD settings but having never used FCP or iMovie I can’t be certain how to ensure he is…
Could it be that a timeline edited in iMovie simply can’t be exported as a XML with HD settings for PPro?
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6 Replies
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Make a new sequence with the proper settings and copy/paste everything from the SD sequence to the new one.
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That’s what I did and it’s not happening. The only way I can get it to fit is to resize it which obviously diminishes the quality even further :-/
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If you make a new 1080p sequence and you take the cuts there and your footage is 1080p it really doesn’t matter what the original XML thinks it is.
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Be sure to check the source files — open them in some other player (QT, MPEG Streamclip, VLC, etc) to verify that they are indeed HD clips. Maybe they were transcoded to DV-esque footage as part of the XML export. Or something.
If they are HD, try making a new sequence with the HD settings as you like them, then copy/paste the entire edit from the bogus sequence to the good one. And then rescale the clips to fit the HD sequence.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Doesn’t iMovie transcode the footage on import?
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone. We had to find a workaround where the timeline was converted into a FCP7 project then exported via that. I don’t know if he’d made changes at all but it appears to be working ok now on the new xml.
Thanks again everyone, it appears that iMovie 9 won’t export HD xml files!
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