[Hugh Hartford]

Hi Caroline, it sounds like I’m in the same situation as you. A change in editor has meant we need to shift a feature film cut in FCPx to AVID and its down to me to make this work.

I’ve imported all the raw rushes into avid so all the video and audio is in avid (not ama linked but transcoded as avid mxf files). ‘All’ I need to do now is bring in the 90min rough cut from FCPX. I can get the cut from X to Resolve 15 and it plays and relinks to the raw. I’ve decompressed all secondary timelines and unpacked synced clips.

The problem is now getting an AAF out of Resolve. DR just crashes on AAF export.

Did you ever find a workflow that worked getting a timeline from X to avid?

[Hugh Hartford]

Thanks Oliver. Its a 90 min edit. We can flatten the video to 1 or 2 tracks but it will be tough to get the audio under 8 tracks. Re-building from scratch would take maybe a week.

But thats just the current cut – we’d want to bring across to avid at least 20 assembly timelines too making rebuild from scratch a pretty epic task! I’m going to do more research and some tests once I have the whole project transcoded to QT prores. Any thoughts very welcome.

[Hugh Hartford]

Did you find a good workflow for this? We’re migrating a whole feature doc cut in FCPX to AVID. We have all the rushes as quicktime pro res. I’d prefer not to go via the AAF route unless you can add handles when exporting from resolve that include the entire original clip.

Any suggestions?

[Hugh Hartford]

Thanks Shane. That’s very clear!

[Hugh Hartford]

Did this ever get resolved? We’re some MC versions on…

I’m faced with a similar challenge. I have a feature doc migrating from FCPX to Avid MC. We have all raw footage (a huge mix of codecs and frame rates) transcoded to Prores QT HQ. Using davinci we kept the same folder structure as the raw so we can relink when we do the grade back in davinci.

What is best way to import into avid AND keep the folder structure (INSIDE avid not necessarily on the drive)? I know avid will make its own mxf’s in its own folder structure – that is fine. I, like the original post, want to keep the clips organised within avid the same way the raw rushes is organised on the drive. Is it possible without manually importing every folder as a new bin? There are 1000+ folders.

BTW – drive space is no issue.

[Hugh Hartford]

Thanks for the response, you’re right I can ‘read’ the files – many quicktime clips still play, but nothing can be copied to the drive and no files on the drive can be changed. When transferring the data off the drive there were about 5 video files (out of 2.5TB of data) that made the transfer crash and I’d have to relaunch finder. Could it be that these files corrupted and caused the problem with the drive? Just trying to avoid it happening again.

[Hugh Hartford]

I have this same problem with a 4TB Gtech raid drive on macs using OS X 10.6.8. The drive mounted with an error message and although all the files are there the drive can no longer read/write and Disk Utility can’t verify disk. I am copying all the data on to a working drive now but wanted to work out what caused it so can avoid this happening again.

I’m not sure it is the operating system as it has the same problem on another mac running OS X 10.7.5

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Hugh Hartford]

I have this same problem as well. When using Blackmagic 3 HDMI out from FCP 7 on a Mac Pro running os 10.5; FCP constantly crashes when scrolling through clips.

Using the HD SDI output it is stable or simply turning off output via Blackmagic it is stable.

Has anyone found a solution to this?

(The monitor we use is an HP Dreamcolour LCD)

[Hugh Hartford]

I found the problem. The sequence settings was Pro Res HQ and exporting as DVCPro HD was squashing just the text. Exporting the same as the sequence kept all the text the right shape.

[Hugh Hartford]

Hi Brian, could you tell us how?