[Chester Dent]

Adam, I did not. Last time I checked the xml is all based on duration from start of clip not T/c.

I’m just about to embark on another small project with Descript 3.9. I’ll let you know if I get any further with conforming. Please stay in touch.

[Chester Dent]

They do not have burnt in tc. I will get back to Descript and see what else can be exported.

changing XML refs to hi-res versions may work.

I’ll look at that thanks for your help anyway!

[Chester Dent]

I’d have to say no, they do not have TC.
.MP4s just show duration from start of clip in FCPX viewer
>MOVs show h:mm:ss:ff timecode

[Chester Dent]

Apparently the .mp4s do have TC, though i’m not 100% sure how to check that.
Interestingly they won’t open in QT player, only in FCP.

[Chester Dent]

FCPX cannot link mp4 to mov in a batch, but it can do it one by one. You must have the exact same audio channels on your proxy media, though, and it needs to match the number of channels and on your high res original files exactly. If your audio channels match, you can relink, but you have to select each clip in the list and manually link them one by one by finding each file.

Thanks, Jeremy

No dice. I’m afraid. You did mean File/Relink… right?

Error message below indicated I need to relink the same media type (presumably .mp4). The audio is unchanged.

“Incompatible file.

The original file and new file have no shared media range.

Relinked files must have the same media type and similar audio channels as the original files, and must be long enough to cover all the clips that reference the files.”

I’m going to try editing the XML to point at the 422 original files.
Are there any recommendations for doing this?