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XML export destroys file paths
Hello there,
I’m working on a feature film with thousands of clips. I’m working in FCP 7, but have a PA who is working in FCP 6. I’d like to give him an XML file of a project so he can help out a bit. However, when I try to export the XML, I seem to lose the file path on everything (you know “unspecified path” is where FCP thinks all the clips are). This would be fine for 10,20, even 500 clips. But with so many clips, it’ll take take hours or days to manually reconnect. Is there something I’m doing wrong with the XML import or export process? I’ve tried XML 4 and 3, and have the same problem with both. I’ve done this before on smaller projects, and have never had this problem.Thanks for reading,
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Are you guys using the same storage? f not, FCP is right?
You can relink, you just have to search for the media.
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Final Cut will lose the path information if your PA’s media drive doesn’t have the same name and folder structure as your media drive. If you clone your drive and be sure the clone has the same name, your PA should be fine.
If that’s totally impossible, there’s probably a workaround, involving some manual work and using find & replace in the actual XML file. Depending on how spread out your media is, that might be faster than reconnecting everything by hand.
– David
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We’re actually giving him the external drives that the media was originally linked to before we got ourselves onto a SAN. The project is not changing paths to anything, and the drives are the original drives. We have tow external Gtech drives – 4TB and 2TB.
An update to the original post – I’m now able to get the XML out, open it in a project, and see the connected media on my system. But for some reason, the XML keeps crashing FCP on his system.
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You need to export v4 from FCP7 to go to FCP6.
What codec are you using?
You are using File > Import > XML, right?
Jeremy
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I have tried both v4 and v3.
I’m using ProRes 422 HQ 1920×1080 24p.
Yes, File > Import > XML. -
[george mandl] “I have tried both v4 and v3.”
Are there any effects or anything that is used in FCP7 that’s not present in FCP6?
Does it really crash FCP6 or does it just not work?
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I’ll check effects, but to answer your other question, it is definitely crashing FCP – beyond not working. Thanks for sticking with me.
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As I suspected, there are no effects. This project is simply an “all footage” project. It really doesn’t have any sequences, other than a couple of stringouts – but I got rid of those just in case. This project is basically just bins with footage from each scene. Are there perhaps some XML import/export settings I’m not selecting correctly?
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Are you trying to do the whole project as an XML?
Please try and be specific.
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Sorry, yes. This is a whole project, which consists of 100 bins of media. The media is video and audio synced together into merged clips. The project file is 31MB, so not tiny, but not huge either.
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