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Mark Dixon
February 13, 2016 at 11:57 pm in reply to: FCP X why is snapping always disabled when I retime a clip???

Agreed. Still not working in 2016.

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Independent Filmmaker
Canon C100, Panasonic GH3
FCPX, FCP7
Mark Dixon
June 19, 2015 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Clips coming over as black on timeline

I’m able to regularly reproduce this behavior by exporting a particular FCP7 project to XML, then converting to FCPX with 7toX, then opening in FCPX. Not only do I get strange black frames (sometimes entire black clips) when skimming around the clips, but the behavior leaks into all of my other open libraries from other projects that previously had no problem. All libraries are negatively affected by this behavior until I remove the problematic library that contains the clips imported from FCP7 and restart FCPX. Then all the libraries that had previously received the “leaked” bad behavior are fixed. If I re-open the problematic library, however, then all the other open libraries get re-infected with the strange behavior.

A few additional considerations to help us debug this thing:
– I tried resetting preferences and that didn’t help.
– The footage appears to be fine in FCP7 (HDV 1080p30 – actually 29.97fps – 1440×1080 – shot on Canon XH-A1)
– If I import the raw footage from problematic FCP7 project WITHOUT doing any XML/7toX conversion (i.e. ID the video files from that project and import them separately, unassociated with the FCP7 project file/sequences/bins) the footage shows up fine in FCPX. Something is getting gummed up in the conversion.
– I have successfully converted many other projects from FCP7 to FCPX using 7toX without this problem, even though the same camera and workflow as the problematic project were used.
– I tried re-linking the problematic files and that didn’t help.
– Some of the problematic files show up in FCPX with a compound clip icon instead of the expected thumbnails.
– I wonder if there was a frame rate mismatch somewhere that FCP7 deals with more gracefully with than FCPX?

I’d love to be able to import this problematic project and get working on it in FCPX instead of FCP7. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Independent Filmmaker
Canon C100, Panasonic GH3
FCPX, FCP7
Mark Dixon
September 13, 2014 at 1:58 am in reply to: Audio retime creates echo in FCPX but not in FCP7?

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a shot (deleted the renders) and the slight echo effect remains. Strange. I’m still open to suggestions. Hopeful that others have encountered and conquered this issue.

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Independent Filmmaker
Canon C100, Panasonic GH3
FCPX, FCP7