X to 7 and premiere weirdness/warning

[Oliver Peters]

Turn off the XMP metadata settings in the import preferences for PPro.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bret Williams]

Thanks! Too late now though…

Thankfully I was just playing with a completed consolidated project. So one more vote for “we need to fix this relinking crap and allow to force a relink!”

[Bret Williams]

I’ve got 2 –

Write XMP ID to Files on import (definitely turning that crap off)

But how about
Enable clip and XMP Metadata linking

What else can I turn off that is gonna screw up my system?

[Oliver Peters]

I think it’s just the “write XMP ID”, since that is modifying the source files.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

QTEdit can strip XMP metadata out of Qt files.

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

Can’t figure out what app that is. Get lots of ProTools links. Who makes it? Free?

[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “QTEdit can strip XMP metadata out of Qt files.
“

Just tried it on a file… didn’t seem to work. Fortunately it’s from a project that’s done, but if this had happened in mid job, I would be completely f*cked. Hope everyones sending feedback to apple about this, I have… Oh, and Bret, it’s part of Digital Rebellions’ pro media tools. a free trail is downloadable…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Bret Williams]

Yeah, this was a finished, consolidated project stil on the raid. I have the original camera files elsewhere, but it screwed up other stuff too, like AE renders and converted stock media. Going to be a pain in the a to repair it all. Probably 40 or 50 shots. One by one if the QTedit doesn’t work.

[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Yeah, this was a finished, consolidated project stil on the raid. I have the original camera files elsewhere, but it screwed up other stuff too, like AE renders and converted stock media. Going to be a pain in the a to repair it all. Probably 40 or 50 shots. One by one if the QTedit doesn’t work.”

Bummer. i’m of 2 minds about this… One mind says that FCPX is being ridiculously anal about relinking. Which is probably true. If I cut from offline pix with window burns etc, and then want to relink a cut to final picture, with exactly the same TC and duration but in a different format etc, is that even possible? it should be. The old “This may blow up in your face. Do it anyway?” dialog. ;-}

The other mind says… what kind of idiotic app writes data to a master file without at least warning you it’s doing so? At least FCP 7 would say “you’re about to modify a source file. are you sure you want to?”

Oh well… more things to complain to Apple about. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Charlie Austin] “Just tried it on a file… didn’t seem to work. Fortunately it’s from a project that’s done, but if this had happened in mid job, I would be completely f*cked.”

XMP file modification has been part of Adobe’s workflow for a long time so I usually shut off the XMP options (this has to be done in Ae as well).

In FCP7, XMP injection simply knocks render files loose, which can be a pain, but not devastating.

Reconnection in FCPX needs some retooling, absolutely.

FWIW, I have mistakenly left the option on, and the files flash that they are disconnected in FCPX, but then they relink. I don’t seem to have an issue of XMP knocking the files completely offline.

Stripping the XMP metadata works for me in Qt Edit.

Jeremy