Dennis Widmyer
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Yeah, I spent all night emailing with Larry Jordan about this. Doesn’t work for me with my multicam clips. That option shows me the duration of where I am in that individual clip (not the source timecode). Only way I see the actual timecode is if I go to the solo-cam version of that shot, within my events folder, and skin there. Larry was great, and spent many emails with me trying to figure this out. In the end, we both gave up.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Hi Michael,
Turns out it was a combination issue of Resolve and the program Xto7. The version of Resolve was 9, which, for some reason, wouldn’t bring in the xml.fcpx files without crashing upon import. So we then purchased X to 7 to convert the xmls. This allowed us to get them into both Resolve 9 and FInal Cut 7. But in each program, we were seeing giant gaps where about 75% of our shots should be. After trouble-shooting this all morning, we figured out that it was the multicam clips that weren’t surviving the translation. I ended up finally having to email the creator of the X to 7, a very awesome dude who looked at our XMLs and determined that it was a problem with the way the app was calculating our multicam shots. o he quickly addressed and fixed the problem and then converted all our XMLs for us. After which time, they loaded into Resolve Lite (on my end) with all the clips in tact. We’re now waiting to hear back from the Colorist in NY to see if he was able to get them to load in Resolve 9 too. Fingers crossed!
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Hi Rob,
YEah, we actually purchased Xto7 yesterday, and that helped. A little. The fcpx.xml’s were crashing Resolve upon import. Repeately. So we then converted them all using xto7 and that worked. They were then able to import into Resolve (version 9 btw). But then we noticed large gaps on the sequence wherever a multi-cam clip was. So now I know xto7 is supposed to flatten these clips. But something is not working then. Because when we load them into Final Cut 7 (the converted XML) it shows the same gaps where those multi-cam clips are supposed to be.
So I must be doing something wrong either during the export XML phase from FCX, or during the conversion phase.
There’s no easy method in X to flatten multi-cam clips. God, I wish I could click Shift F on the clip and have it point to the single camera version of the file. But it doesn’t. It points to the file I pulled the clip from (the multi-cam). So it doesn’t get me anywhere. At this point, I’m contemplating just going off the time-code, and rebuilding the entire film again with non-multi-cam clips.
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Hi Jacob,
It hasn’t though. It crashes Resolve repeatedly upon import. (this was Resolve version 9).
So we then converted it using xto7, and that at least allowed to be imported. But then we were seeing entire gaps where the bulk of our shots were supposed to be. The same exact thing is happening when you load the converted XML into Final Cut 7. After a series of tests, we deduced that it was the multi-cam clips that weren’t showing up. But what’s odd is, it’s not even showing an error message or a missing proxy. Rather, it’s just showing a complete gap in the shots where those clips should be. So something is definitely getting lost in the translation.
I just emailed the good folks at xto7 to see if they can help. But I’m thinking that this is probably something on the Final Cut X level that’s getting lost when I export the XML.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Hi Rob,
I’m running into this same issue. Have a FCX project and none of the multi-cam clips are showing up in Resolve. They’re just black gaps. Can you specifically tell me what your workaround was for flattening the multi-cam clips?
Thank you.
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Dennis Widmyer
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This advice was tremendously helpful, guys. Thank you.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Yeah, I’ve already tried the method of moving the scene into its own project. This is where I also tested it at different resolutions. 2K. 720p. Then 480p. And none of that helped. So yeah, I’m tempted to just reimport these specific scenes and then rebuild the scene from scratch. I’m just running out of time. :/
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Dennis Widmyer
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I’ve done a lot of reading on this. And I’ve even tried working in this particular Project at Standard Def (480) as a test, by moving just this scene into its own Project. And I’m already editing off transcoded 422 proxy files. So besides creating Optimized versions of all the files (which I’m not sure I have the disk space for now), I’m not sure what else I could try to improve the workflow. Again, this is the only scene in a 95 min film that is causing me problems.
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Dennis Widmyer
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Computer config is a maxed out 2013 iMac 28 inch.
3TB Fusion drive. (event files and project files stored locally. raw files stored on an external RAID drive)
32GB of RAM
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7It’s running the latest version of OSx 10.8.5. I purposely didn’t upgrade to Mavericks yet, because I saw some people giving caution in a FCX thread, about bugs they were seeing on the new OS. And since I’m days away from locking picture on this feature, I don’t want to mess with anything till it’s outputted and off to the Color Correction and Sound Design phase.
So really, my system should be able to handle this. The actual files (in this particular scene) are long, but not overly long. I’m mainly pulling from two separate takes and inter-cutting them with a spotlight blast and some quick 1-2 frame subliminal shots.One of the takes is 3 mins long. The other is 7 mins long.
And really, there’s a lot of scenes in this film with a lot of editing and sound design going on, that are easy to work with. But this scene is a nightmare. Again, I have to wait 5 mins to even view what I’ve done some times. And there’s sometimes a 5 sec delay on every step I try to perform. And if the pinwheel isn’t spinning, the system is just crashing.
So I think I’m looking for some other issue that can be causing this. Any other ideas?
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Dennis Widmyer
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Update: It’s because in some cases, I was selecting multicam clips, that it wasn’t allowing me to see the Proxy File location in Finder. But yeah, all of the shots in this particular sequence DO have Proxies already made… and I have the Preferences set to use them for Proxies. So now that we know I’m editing this scene with proxies, what else do you think could be causing all the problems?
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Dennis Widmyer
http://www.parallacticpictures.com