I have one rather annoying workflow issue. When dragging clips between Libraries in FCPX, it creates duplicates of the clips that are already in the destination. h

It’s a multi-day shoot (like 30 days) of a 16-episode series (multicam, dual system audio). Thousands of clips.

I’m not getting all media at once, it’s in batches. I use one library with…

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yeah, it’s a compound clip created by Resolve on import of the XML. It works there but not not when exporting back to FCPX.

You’re right. I’ll assemble the rough cut in Resolve using the transcript and then reassemble it in FCPX. Shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours.

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your answer! The idea of using Resolve for text editing came AFTER I had already made some organization inside FCPX, hence the cumbersome attempts for roundtripping.

I’m using the builtin XML imports and exports – Resolve 20 can natively import and FCPXMLD files. The issue starts upon importing – Resolve for some reason doesn’t show…

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I’m about to start editing a documentary. I prefer working in FCPX (11.1) but I want to use Resolve 20.2 for the AI transcripts, and to do the assembly edit using text editing.

The footage is a two-cam multicam with synced audio (so, each MC clip is 2 video angles with camera audio and one multichannel WAV jam-synced by TC).

I am able to get these…

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I’m about to start editing a documentary. I prefer working in FCPX (11.1) but I want to use Resolve for the AI transcripts, and to do the assembly edit using text editing.

The footage is a two-cam multicam with synced audio (so, each MC clip is 2 video angles with camera audio and one multichannel WAV jam-synced by TC).

I am able to get these…

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In Avid, if I do not specify an In point, the current frame under the playhead is used as one. That is very weird coming from another NLEs that do not assume this and if I/O is not set, it uses the entire clip. Avid’s way throws me off for clips that are used in their entirety (VFX, animations, SFX…) and it forces the user to either Home the…

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Hi Mads, thanks.

I have used BMD Proxy Generator to do this in the past with FCPX without any issue. It just doesn’t work now with 10.7.1.

I like that it retains the original folder structure, which FCPX does not do. On the off chance some files have the same filename, this doesn’t lead to FCPX confused or appending numbers to the clips.

The…

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FCPX 10.7.1 won’t let me link to externally created proxies (by Blackmagic Proxy Generator – I need to retain file/folder structure).

It links okay, no error messages, BUT there’s still only the Original under Media Representation.

What is super bizarre is when I do Reveal Proxy, it DOES reveal the correct proxy file, BUT when I unmount the drive…

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Hi, I have a project with two editors, I prefer FCPX, the other editor uses Premiere. I use Sync-n-link to sync dual audio and multicams, it works great and quick. I use XtoCC to transfer stuff into Premiere BUT it cannot transfer multicam clips at all.

Is there a way to transfer MC clips from FCPX to Premiere? I tried going through Resolve but it…

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As of June 2022, TC is still not supported in Descript, making it kind of useless for documentary editing.

…which is exactly what I’m doing 🙂 with markers galore. thank you!

I’m about to embark on my first reality editing gig. I have edited scripted shows and some docos for broadcast but this is very new to me. I’m usually not very big on editing from stringouts, I prefer to work from Source viewer with the traditional 3-point editing style.

What I got from the production team is different from what I’m used to. All…

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That was exactly it! I haven’t used AMC for a while, I thought this was some sort of background rendering… Not very intuitive wording from Avid. Thank you!

When parked (stopped) on clips with effects (such as 3D PiP), I’m getting blank Record window. It all plays correctly but no image when stopped. What can I do to fix this? Thanks!

Media Composer 2021.12 on iMac 5k on Monterey 12.1.

The thing is, when exporting from Character Animator, it always defaults to Cineform. Oh well… you’d think with stuff like deep neural learning and whatnot, surely you can set a default preset. I’ll just pester support and feature request forms some more. Thanks!

Thanks but that doesn’t answer my question. I want to set a default preset for any future encodings. Right now it defaults to a preset I don’t want, ever, and I have to manually change it every single time.

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere but I can’t search a subforum on new CreativeCow.

How can I set a default preset for my exports? I’m exporting a LOT of Adobe Character Animator files (video with audio and alpha) and I just don’t want them to be the default Cineform files as they don’t play in QuickView and generally suck in MacOS.

I want it to…

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I don’t have Protools and I want to check before sending to the sound mixer. I had ProTools guy complain about this before so this is not a Logic issue. There’s also an entire role missing in the X2Pro UI (Port 3), so there are issues even before the conversion. I see similar issues on their support forum, it’s not my user error. I’m just checking…

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This is a more typical example of my woes.

I edit mostly multicam, dual audio stuff (kids’ show at the moment). AAFs exported from X2Pro are always all kinds of faulty, with clips’ channels all over the place, seemingy randomly desynced, clips starting at wrong TC etc. It’s completely unusable. This is going on for a while now. Unless I completely flatten all the synced clips and multicams…

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I have never NOT had issues with X2Pro. I do mostly multicam edits (kids’ TV shows) and without fail, clips come out of X2Pro desynced, all over the place, some are missing (NOT disabled in FCPX)… The screenshot is pretty typical. Unless I manually flatten the multicams, I get faulty AAFs, but that’s no way to live…