[Lawrence Gray]

It’s the whole project… feature length.

I’ll have to work out which of the project files will give me the cut that I want to work on the re-edit with.

I’m assuming turning it into an XML before reconnecting all the assets works. It’ll be a while before I can find the actual file! I’ve got identical files on several disks… identical but different! There were renders of renders of renders incorporated in fine tune edits. I need to get back to an earlier edit, but one with colour corrections already done… So it might be some time before I figure this out.

[Lawrence Gray]

Thanks. I’ve got sendtoX… it’s the realisation that FCP 7 now doesn’t work on any of the three machines I have! My old MacBook pro simply refuses to boot up despite it being mothballed seven years ago… I guess mould or something has rotten a few connections.

[Lawrence Gray]

I’m in Johor Bahru in Malaysia.. I assume it’s possible for me to just send you a project file without any of the assets and then I read the XML into my FCP X and embark upon the rather laborious attempt to reconstitute the time line from within FCP X? Not an easy task. I dumped stuff onto various drives seven years ago when a big drive was 500 gig at the most. I’m hoping they haven’t rusted over!

I did read an alarming piece of news that Logic Pro users were having a hard time because XML files were no longer working on Catalina! I haven’t heard whether they work or not on FCP X on Catalina. I have a Mojave machine and a Catalina machine so it’s not necessarily a problem but…

[Lawrence Gray]

That seems to have done the trick.

[Lawrence Gray]

I’m afraid I gave up on DaVinci as there were too many odd buggy things going on and of course I’ve got a fair number of plug-ins on FCPX that make things like colour correction simple… which is Davinci’s thing. The time line is still better than FCPX.

I assume the sound issue and rendering quirks are solvable because others seem to get on with it but I couldn’t work out what was happening.

[Lawrence Gray]

H264 , 48Hz

And now it seems OK… I have a music track on there that I deleted and then I rendered the whole time line out in xml for Final Cut. In Final Cut I discovered only half the time line. The sound was fine there. Then I opened Resolve again. And yep, half the time line had disappeared. But the sound for fine.

I’ve been using it for a week with the sound being terrible. And now after that manoeuvre it is fine, except for the lost of half the time line… The backups don’t want to open beyond the last one saved, which is the half timeline.

So… go figure.

[Lawrence Gray]

Yes. Managed to reconnect from a backup.

By the way, what do you mean by internally managed?

I am using an external drive. So I assume that’s what you reccomend?

For reasons I haven’t yet worked out the external drive seems to disconnect. Must be a loose connection.