Rob Davis
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Bingo! I opened the project under a differnt user account and it opened right up in 4-angle mode. I never would have thought to try that. Thanks so much to everyone!
I was just about to update to Mavericks but I’m currently putting the finishing touches on a feature documtary in FCP7 and I don’t want to risk having to deal with problems after updating. I don’t know what I’d do without the cow!
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Matt–Here is the file for you to download and test. Let me know if you have any luck and thanks again!
7621_currentversion.fcpevent.zip
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Thanks Matt! I would love for you to test it on your system if you’d be willing. Can I send it via email?
Update: I re-installed FCPX and updated to 10.0.9 and the problem persists! I’m surprised I haven’t heard from anyone else who has had this issue. I would try updating to 10.1 but that would require upgrading to Mavericks and I’m not ready to do that quite yet.
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And yes, I have tried trashing prefs several times. i.e. deleting these two files plus a third one that hasn’t been re-created by FCP yet:
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Nope–no change at all.
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When I click “9 angle” or “4 angles” or “16 angle” absolutely nothing happens. It’s as if it were greyed out (though it isn’t).
When I try to go to 9-angle view in the event viewer its the same deal, no change:
This is what the angle editor looks like:
Thanks for everyone’s help. This is a real mystery.
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Yep-tried trashing prefs but no change.
The Canvas is what’s set to 4%, not the viewer. I just made the viewer as large as possible for the screenshot to show that it wasn’t an issue of screen space, which made the canvas very small. The angle view is resized automatically by scaling the window. This is a 15″ MacBook Pro and I’ve never read anything saying only 2 angles will fit on a MacBook screen. Could that be it? I’m sure I’ve done multicam edits on a MacBook before with no problems.
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This is the screen it’s stuck on. When I click “9 angles” it stays in the 2 angle view. As you can see from the seven boxes in the bottom of the viewer window, there are 7 angles.
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Yes–everything is synced up in the angle editor. I can shuffle through the angles two at a time in the viewer. I just can’t switch to the 9 angle view to see everything at once.
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Hey Dennis,
Unfortunately, I don’t know of a solid workaround and I really wish this was something that could be solved. I just spoke with Davinci the other day (day after latest update was released) and they confirmed there are still problems with bringing multiclips in with both FCPX and Premiere projects. With Resolve X, something has changed because I’m getting a different error and now the timeline created out of FCPX’s XML have no clips, whatsoever–even less usable then before.
Anyway, I have two suggestions for you:
There is a $50 program available called FCPXto7 that can convert FCPX XML back to FCP7 XML. I haven’t tried this yet but wonder if you could convert your xml to 7 (this automatically flattens the multiclips) and bring that in to resolve. (note: i don’t believe you actually need to open 7 as the multiclips are flattened in the conversion)
As a last resort, you can simply export your project from X (remove or burn in all dissolves, transitions and effects), then import that single video clip into Resolve and use the “scene detect” feature to cut the clips appart. This kind of sucks because you would have to create groups and add clips from each camera angle to have the ability to do global grades, where otherwise, Resolve would automatically detect edits from the same source file and group them. Honestly, on many multicam projects that didn’t need drastic correction, I have just opted to do the grading in FCPX for speed but I am not a fan of X for grading or much else for that matter.
One more thought–We have just gone back to pluraleyes for syncing because its much faster than X. I’m wondering if we started by making a set of synced masters and brought those into resolve before imorting the XML (and deselecting auto import clips so it reverts to the masters already in the library) but I doubt this will make any difference because the issue seems to be with the way FCPX deals with timecode in XML.
Please let me know if you figure out any better solution. I’m hoping for answers with the new version of FCPX. If not, I am probably going to go to Avid or some other NLE for multicam.
