[Nick Swinglehurst]

QT Edit does what I need, thanks very much

Nick

[Nick Swinglehurst]

I think when Avid imported the files, it stripped out one of the audio channels completely. If you only have the Avid MediaFiles then unfortunately that missing audio data probably isn’t recoverable.

But if you have the Quicktime files that FCP generated before you imported them into Avid, then just reset the audio channels for each Quicktime file to Left and Right. I’ve done this in Quicktime Player 7 Pro under Movie Properties > Sound track > Audio settings.

Nick

[Nick Swinglehurst]

It turns out the XDCAM .mov files were created using Log and Transfer in FCP which assigned audio channels in a way that Avid couldn’t/didn’t interpret correctly.

I’ve now got the original BPAVs, I’ve linked them with AMA and I’m consolidating the media.

Resolved.

Nick

[Nick Swinglehurst]

In Find choose Timeline and Monitors then it will search the text of Locators on the timeline, but not in a bin unfortunately.

Also each time you hit Find, it will jump you to the next locator result, it doesn’t give a list of all locators containing your search string

Nick

[Nick Swinglehurst]

The fact that Recompress All Frames solves the problem suggests that it might be corrupt Render Files.

I would try using Render Manager to trash your current render files, or just re-render the clips that are known to be glitchy.

WIth the FCP titles, are these created using FCP’s “Text” generator? I’ve experienced this aspect ratio export problem with certain compositing modes before. Try a different compositing mode, e.g. Screen instead of Normal. Also, depending on how many you have, try using PSDs or Boris Titles instead. Yeah, I know it’s annoying…

Nick

Nick Swinglehurst | Film Editor | Colourist | Compositor

[Nick Swinglehurst]

What was the audio from the recorder converted to? Is it AIFF or WAV or something else?

I’ve had little issues round-tripping with Soundtrack Pro before, so I generally only send TO Soundtrack and then just flatten them down to AIFFs back out of Soundtrack and re-import them manually to FCP. It reduces flexibility back in FCP, but it’s reliable.

Alternatively have you tried in FCP using Tools > Render Manager to delete any audio render files, and then doing a Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown. Does that fix anything?

Nick

Nick Scale | Film Editor | Colourist | Compositor

[Nick Swinglehurst]

Thanks, but it’s the combination of maintaining master clip associations while also maintaining logging data that’s the problem.

I’ve found a solution. The logging data has to go into the XML. I can use the batchlist to generate an XML sequence containing all the clips. I import that into FCP and use Tools > Create Master Clips and there you go. All logging data maintained, timeline clips connected to master clips in the browser.

Now I just need a script that will generate XML from a batchlist. Anybody know of one?

Nick

Nick Scale | Film Editor | Colourist | Compositor

[Nick Swinglehurst]

Currently XDCAM EX (1080p24 35mbps VBR).

The same issue also affects projects I edit in ProRes 422 and ProRes Proxy. How might the choice of codec affect this?

Nick

Nick Scale | Film Editor | Colourist | Compositor

[Nick Swinglehurst]

Hi there,

I would use a script to modify your exported XML sequence, such as AppleScript or Python or even some advanced use of Excel.

First, open your XML in whatever you want to type your transcription into (Excel can handle that) and enter all the transcription.

Next, you’ll need to run a script on it. Wherever the script sees a marker in the XML, it should add a text layer above your video layer and put your transcribed text into the text layer. It will need to be nicely formatted as Final Cut Pro XML which you then reimport into FCP.

You will certainly still need to go through manually to check timings, positions, line breaks, etc, but the script will save you a lot of time and is very flexible if you need to do this again, e.g. for other languages.

In any case, the scripting approach is the most efficient solution but you will need to adapt it to your needs. If you don’t have the expertise yourself, you can hire a freelance Python coder for a one-off job very affordably.

Nick

Nick Scale | Film Editor | Colourist | Compositor