Invisible clips on Premiere CC from FCP7 XML

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Invisible clips on Premiere CC from FCP7 XML

Posted by Brent Hannigan on December 12, 2013 at 10:34 pm

This is a new one for me…. I am recreating a project edited in FCP 7 and after exporting the XML and importing into Premiere Pro CC (7.2) a strange thing happened. First of all only the base video layer came through V1 (out of 6) but that’s not the weird part, even though there are no clips in the timeline for V2 I can clearly see the elements that were on that layer in the FCP 7 project.

Here is a screenshot of what I mean: https://www.dropbox.com/s/193e3q8r29bsdbc/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-12%20at%204.23.00%20PM.png

The red element is a transition flag that flies over 2 shots. You can see the flag in the monitor but THERE IS NO CLIP in the timeline. There is nothing there, nothing to select. There are only 2 layers in this example and so it is not hiding in a higher layer. At first I thought maybe it’s a render file but that’s not possible and there are no render files to delete anyway. It’s a completely empty timeline but there are clips there.

Can anybody shed some light on this mystery.

Thanks

Mac Pro 2012
20GB Ram

Brent Hannigan replied 12 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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Brent Hannigan
December 12, 2013 at 11:06 pm

Here is another screenshot to illustrate the invisible clip syndrome. The green screen footage belongs on V2 and you can see it but the clip is not there. If I toggle the V2 eyeball the clip appears and disappears as it should.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/asz13vzuofmhu7l/Screen%20Shot%202013-12-12%20at%205.05.52%20PM.png

This is really bugging me now….
Brent Hannigan
December 13, 2013 at 4:26 pm

I decided to try AAF export with automatic duck and it worked so problem solved. I guess the FCP7 sequence had something in it that the XML just didn’t like.

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Mac Pro 6 Core (Mid 2012)
20GB Ram
Final Cut Studio 3
Avid Media Composer 5.5
Adobe CS5
David Mcgavran
December 13, 2013 at 11:28 pm

Can you send me the .xml file? I don’t need the media

Thanks

Dave

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Brent Hannigan
December 16, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Dave

I have uploaded the 15MB XML file. The original FCP 7 sequence had at least 6 tracks of video and 4 tracks of audio. The Premiere version has only 1 video track and no audio. HOWEVER the media from track 2 is visible in my system even though the clips are not there. Example at 1:00:32:00 there is a green screen interview on V2. (I posted the screen grab in a previous post).
I solved the problem by using automatic duck but would like to understand what is happening here as I may need to use a FCP7 to Premiere Pro workflow a great deal in the future.

Thank you

Mac Pro 2012
Processor 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
20GB Ram

All latest CC everything
David Mcgavran
December 16, 2013 at 8:37 pm

[Brent Hannigan] “I have uploaded the 15MB XML file. The original FCP 7 sequence had at least 6 tracks of video and 4 tracks of audio.”
Great, where can I find it?

Thanks

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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Brent Hannigan
December 16, 2013 at 8:43 pm

Dave

I am not sure if this will work – never uploaded to the COW before. Thanks for your help.

6917_pbc2012iaredflagswarehousetemplate.xml.zip

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