David Heidelberger
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I’ve got a beta version of a program to translate a sequence XML to Excel up on my website:
http://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.html
– David
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Is it possible that the hard drive you’re exporting to is PC formatted? On a FAT-32 PC drive, files larger than 4 GB aren’t allowed. I’ve never tried to export a big HD file to one, but it’s possible that FCP and/or Quicktime is automatically creating the AV files to get around this size limit.
I’ve got another possible workaround for the 1280 v 960 bug (which hit me for the first time yesterday and boy was I mad). Export your movie as you normally would (without checking the recompress frames box). Bring that movie back into Final Cut, open it in the viewer, and hit export Quicktime movie again. This second Quicktime movie that you exported will be the proper size. It takes a while to export, but I suspect it’s faster than recompressing all frames, although I’ve not done a time test. I also don’t notice any quality difference between the original movie and the replacement, which is not to say it isn’t there, but I haven’t been able to see one.
– David
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Hi Andreas,
It’s David, actually. I had some free time today so I cleaned up a few things, wrote a readme (which you absolutely HAVE to read in order to use the program properly), and posted the program, more or less as-is, to my website. You’re welcome to give it a try. Please let me know how it goes (there’s an e-mail in the readme file). I’m very curious to hear how it works with PAL. I wish I had more time to test and refine it. I basically wrote it for a documentary I was working on and I really only had time to test it on that under the watchful and slightly impatient eye of the producer, so it could use some real-world use. Final Cut’s XML featureset is amazing, but poorly documented and very complicated (my hour-long doc creates a 5,000 page XML). What I was able to do basically took trial and error and a long weekend with the laptop. Hope you enjoy.
– David
https://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.html
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I’ve got something working right now that does this for a timeline that’s been cleaned up a little bit (no transitions, they do strange things to XMLs). So far, I’ve only tested it with 24p sequences, although I think it will work with 30ndf as well. Haven’t implemented drop frame yet. Give me another week or two and it should be usable, at the least, albeit somewhat quirky. It turns out, Final Cut XMLs can be pretty complicated. There are a lot of special cases you have to account for.
– David
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I’ve got something working right now that does this for a timeline that’s been cleaned up a little bit (no transitions, they do strange things to XMLs). So far, I’ve only tested it with 24p sequences, although I think it will work with 30ndf as well. Haven’t implemented drop frame yet. Give me another week or two and it should be usable, at the least, albeit somewhat quirky. It turns out, Final Cut XMLs can be pretty complicated. There are a lot of special cases you have to account for.
– David
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Thanks Jeremy,
This one bit me hard on a project last year and I spent a couple days figuring out what made this bug tick. It was amazing, you could lay a clip on a timeline, drop an effect on, and suddenly the frame would jump to something else entirely. So glad I’m through the crossgrade now.
– David
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Unfortunately, upgrading doesn’t fix what you already have. At least with the P2s, you actually have to re-import your media from the original MXF files. Not sure if that’s any different with a Firestore drive, I’ve never used one. Even re-importing your media may do more harm than good. Because of this slight speed difference, your timecode may be off and that’s a world of headaches, it’s hard to say. Your best bet is to use the workaround for now and upgrade before you do another HVX-200 project.
– David
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Hello,
Hope this isn’t too late. I saw your post the other day and I’ve had the same problem in the past (it’s so easy to forget to uncheck the extra audio tracks). You can delete the tracks in Quicktime but it’s a real pain doing it file by file. So I decided to do something about it. I wrote a little program that allows you to batch delete audio tracks from Quicktime movies. Hope you find it helpful. It’s up on my site. It’s the one called Audio Track Batcher:
https://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.html
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Thanks Jeremy,
I realize I can use that method. I was just wondering if, first of all, anyone else had seen this problem (or if it’s something I’m doing wrong), and also, if there’s a fix or trick within Compressor in situations where I don’t want to compress my graphics twice.
– David