[Ellen Bittner]

Thanks, Jeff! That was just what I needed to de-code my FCPXML. I love this community!

Thank you,
Ellen

[Ellen Bittner]

Thanks, Jeff.

The XML was created in FCPX, with Metadata View set to “General” and XML Version set to “Current Version (1.6)”

I didn’t bring the XML through any other software, just straight from one apple computer to the other, both with the same version of FCPX running. I appreciate your guess at what’s going on here!

– Ellen

Thank you,
Ellen

[Ellen Bittner]

Hey Doug and Noah,

Thanks so much for helping me out on this! Yes, copying and pasting to a new project worked. I used custom settings to set up the fresh project at 23.98 instead of automatic settings based on first clip, just to be safe. The project settings of the “issue project” in question were correctly at 23.98, but I still thought I’d just go clean slate on the new project just in case some clip in my project had been throwing things off.

I’ve definitely seen a similar issue now that I think of it when I worked as an AE with the legacy final cut 6 and 7. We’d sometimes have to export an XML of a 23.98 timeline and import to force conform it to a 29.97 timeline — the new 29.97 timeline (now filled with the cut from the 23.98 timeline) would have some extra frames of black and nudged audio, which we’d have to smooth out and fill in where needed. So this felt like a similar result: the new project I created and pasted my cut into got all the video tops and tails to line up at full frame points (and not between frames ~ hallelujah! ), but it did create a few frames of gap clip on the primary storyline and nudged my secondary storyline video and connected audio clips forward and backward by 3-5 frames at random.

So even thought the “issue project” in question said it was at 23.98, either it was off or some clips in there were causing an issue. I had a mixture of 23.98, 119.88, and 24fps footage in the timeline with a mixture of codecs (animation, h264, and MXF). I had to give it a thorough QC and nudge things around to get them back in place, but all in all now I have a clean timeline to work with. PHEW!

Thank you guys,

Ellen

[Ellen Bittner]

Hey Doug,

Thanks so much for sharing your experience and giving some insight. Yes, I’m curious if there are others out there who have experienced this and found a quick way to clean it up and a reason why it’s happening in the first place… Thank you for taking the time to contribute to this post ☺

Anyone else have some insight? It also causes an issue when attempting to overwrite to the primary storyline with the keyboard shortcut or using the position tool… It pushes content on the primary storyline left and right in strange ways and won’t overwrite the material. See screencap example of this here: https://youtu.be/klrsyZdNrgs?t=38s

– Ellen

[Ellen Bittner]

Thank you, Noah. Here are the links from my post:

YouTube Video example of the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtYyLAO1_w

Article with someone else experiencing this issue as well and describing it: https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/26931-snap-problem-between-clips-fcpx-10-3-2

Thank you,
Ellen

[Ellen Bittner]

Hi JT,

Pro Video Formats will appear as a software update in the App Store if you downloaded your version of Final Cut Pro, Motion, or Compressor. When you download the update it will automatically install the following items: MXF Reader for importing.

To get to the app store, click the apple icon in the top left corner of your mac screen and select “App Store…” from the dropdown. Then in the App Store click on Updates and update your software.

Got your answer from this Apple Support Page if you want to read further: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204322

– Ellen