George Mandl
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I have tried both v4 and v3.
I’m using ProRes 422 HQ 1920×1080 24p.
Yes, File > Import > XML. -
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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A sad truth about FCP and feature work (especially in a shared environment). Add this bug to the list.
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Christian,
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Thanks, Jason. Its not so much an issue of how to make the poster frame, but rather an issue of getting an accurate poster frame when audio and video are synced into a merged clip. The merged clip thing seems to throw off the poster frame, and it becomes a bit of trial and error to find the “correct wrong frame” to scrub to in order to get a good poster frame. Maybe one of the Yodas on CC has a solution. FCP doesn’t have an obvious option for poster frames preferences.
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Jason,
You are officially the man. I went through my track 1 (the one that seemed to only want to export itself), and found one little pesky clip that had been disabled, under a fade. After I enabled it, the OMF came out nice and clean. Thanks for your insight. A fine piece of troubleshooting.George
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The oddness continues…..
So I went through the reel, and found no MP3 files. All of my extra audio is AIF. So that’s good. I cleared out my audio render files and tried to export again. No difference. Then I tried to turn off track 1 and export an OMF. This worked, and gave me a nice big OMF file which contains tracks 2-26. So by this process of elimination, I can tell that something is off on track 1. With this in mind, do you know of a way to verify my files on track 1? The reel plays through just fine, and everything looks and sounds OK. I’m at a loss. I might try to ask the post sound guys to accept two separate OMFs for this reel, and combine them on their end, but I’d love to figure this one out on my end.THANKS again.
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Sorry, I think its my fault for not being clearer. My goal is to deliver OMFs to my post sound guys. I’ve finished editing a feature film, and they’ve asked for OMFs in reels of less than 15 minutes. Everything is fine, except for one reel that keeps exporting with only one track, even though there are 26 tracks of audio, all enabled. When I bring my other 6 OMF reels into STP, I see everything that should be there – 26 tracks of glory. In this particular reel, I only see one track.
The original audio was recorded on set to DAT tape, then transferred with the film at a lab to DVCAM tapes for me. I ingested everything through FCP and Cinema Tools via .FLX files.
Everything was captured the same way, from lots and lots of tapes. There are also music tracks, and other SFX which came from various files. The problem is definitely not in the capture, but there is some kind of hiccup with just this reel on export to OMF.
-george
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Thanks Jeremy,
All of the tracks are enabled.I don’t completely understand what you mean by “Open one of the QTs in quicktime then hit apple-i and see how many tracks of audio you captured (each audio track is listed separately). ”
Did you mean to open the OMFs there?
OMFs don’t open in quicktime, but I’ve opened them in Soundtrack Pro and been able to see many tracks for most of my reels, but only one track for this particular reel.-george
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Thank you, Steve. ReadXML did the trick. I applied my motion to the 400+ clips that needed it, and placed a sequence marker over each one, with the motion info in the comments box. Then I exported an XML, which I ran through ReadXML. From there I exported the needed info, and now have it in a nice, pretty spreadsheet, ready to go to the lab. Of course it would be nice if apple would eventually allow me to export all the basic motion info (or any other filter/fx info on each clip) as part of a sortof enhanced EDL. This would be great for anyone dealing with film, labs, DI, or anything along these lines.