Final Cut X update and free trial

[Erik Lundberg]

Just did. Worked for me.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[David Roth weiss]

[David Lawrence] “Just to clarify, are you saying that if you make a new project in FCPX 10.0.1 then export that project as XML, you can’t import it back in?”

Actually, I created a very simple new project in FCP 10.1 and it will not export an XML from that project. So, testing the Import XML on a 10.1 created XML file is not possible.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Lance Moody]

Just did an export of a timeline in XML.

Then reimported.

Worked perfectly.

Lance

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Roth Weiss] “Actually, I created a very simple new project in FCP 10.1 and it will not export an XML from that project. So, testing the Import XML on a 10.1 created XML file is not possible.”

Sounds like a pref trash at the very least.

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

[Lance Moody] “Just did an export of a timeline in XML.

Then reimported.

Worked perfectly.”

Pretty odd since neither worked here and still don’t.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Erik Lundberg]

My answers are a bit slow here (still in moderation mode, might be for a while still). It does work at my end. I have no idea what David is trying, or why it isn’t working. If you would like me to walk you through, I’d happily do that.

I did export an XML-file from FCPX 10.1. Imported it back in. Everything came through nicely. Apart from the settings on published parameters on my Motion templates. They were reset to the default values (=not included in the export). This is an issue, yes, but shouldn’t be too damn icky for the apples to toss a fix together on that. Feels more like (again) something overlooked.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[Lance Moody]

Yeah, It took no time at all.

I also tried applying optical flow to several clips (previously a reliable crasher) and that seemed to work.
I am still working on the first project I have tried on X, a largish documentary short film. I’ve been working on the project sporadically over the past month.
There are truly things that I don’t or didn’t like about X but this morning (prior to the update), I felt like I was really getting into the rhythm of it. This update comes at a perfect time for me.

Lance

[Erik Lundberg]

Ok. Admittedly, some of the published parameters came through. In my text templates (lower thirds, subtitles) text were exported/imported. Rigs, drop boxes, colour settings, build in/out-settings did not. Which surely is a bummer if your work heavily relies on Motion Templates and riggings of those.

So far we are at our facility still in wait and see-modus. And we will surely not make any decisions just yet. More likely late 2011/early 2012. And FCPX is as we see it not yet the thing we need. Yet. I would very much like it to get there though. There are some fun rides.

Erik Lundberg

Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

[David Roth weiss]

[Lance Moody] “Just did an export of a timeline in XML.

Then reimported.

Worked perfectly.”

Okay, after a reboot, both XML In and Out are now working. That’s why I wrote “appears” to be DOA in my original post.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Liam Hall]

[Bill Davis] ” Re: Final Cut X update and free trial
by Bill Davis on Sep 20, 2011 at 6:38:02 pm
They released the program when they felt they needed to. Let the market “shake it around” and try to wrap brains around the substantial and deep changes

Please Bill, let me know who I send my invoice to at Apple…

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