Tangier Clarke
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I keep running into issues with the FCPXXML and Logic Pro X. LPX ends up crashing or not playing sound for certain tracks (roles). I haven’t had that issue with X2Pro yet. I also haven’t tried the latest update to LPX yesterday (10.2), but I don’t think XML fixes were a part of that.
Tangier
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Jeremy you have saved me an enormous amount of time on a project I am working on. If we ever cross paths, coffee (or whatever drink) is on me….after I say, “Jeremy who?”. So you’ll have to remind me.
Tangier
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I think it’s as simple as importing the new event via XML and deleting the old one now that I look at things; not merging them at all.
The new exported XML (when imported) will have the old data and the newly updated date before import.
Problem solved…I think 😉 At least that’s what I am seeing at the moment.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/38561
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Oy vey maybe the caffeine just hasn’t kicked in yet. I think it’s as simple as importing the new event via XML and deleting the old one now that I look at things; not merging them at all.
The new exported XML (when imported) will have the old data and the newly updated date before import.
Problem solved…I think 😉 At least that’s what I am seeing at the moment.
Tangier
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I’ve noticed this as well that randomly FCP X will load a project that I am not working on or referencing. I’ve tried to find something consistent about this behavior, but I can’t and it’s annoying and time consuming.
You can hold option to force opening a particular library, but that still doesn’t prevent the random loading of projects sometime.
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You know folks, the more I play around in Logic Pro X and get familiar with the tools and built-in features I find myself appreciating even more the tools that are available directly in FCP X. I am not saying one is better than the other necessarily and I do recognize how it’s faster to tackle audio in LPX with a wider variety of options. However I am able to see more clearly just how capable FCP X is at delivering quality audio with it’s built in tools; within reason of course.
I wouldn’t go tackling large amounts of audio tracks in FCP X, but for simple D,M,&E with a few subjects it seems pretty good. Granted I am speaking from the perspective of someone who doesn’t do audio as their primary bread and butter skill set so allow me that leeway for the time being.
Either way, I am enjoying learning LPX. I particularly look for ProTools users’ perspectives as well when I search different forums. I am also doing some objective comparison of features and output quality between FCP X, ProTools 11, and LPX since I have access to all of them. https://sound-editing.softwareinsider.com has provided some cursory feature comparisons (some of which I found incorrect), but hearing from you all, experimenting, reading LPX and ProTools users’ experiences with LPX leads me to believe it’s more than capable for post sound (not necessarily ideal, but capable – all subjective), but also not always necessary when all you need is some decent EQ, compressor(s), room noise removal, DeEssers and DeCracklers, and levels adjustments.
Tangier
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That’s exactly what I did – do some minimal work in FCP X, exported the roles, brought them back in and used iZotope on those. This seemed to work a little better. Figured this out having learned the hard way, but such is the way of learning new things I suppose.
Agreed on the workaround. It should be something Apple has already done and it’s amazing that simple feature isn’t there.
I haven’t tried using the standalone of RX3.
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I had them silent – deactivated in the inspector. However they do have dialogue content in the channels so they’re not silent in that regard.
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Oliver, I don’t know why I didn’t get this reply in my inbox, but thanks. Your answers are helpful. I did exactly what you explained – isolating roles. I exported those roles as tracks and brought them back in to FCP X and added them to my multicam clip that way I’d still get the edits in my storyline resolved on my newly imported audio clips.
Downside to this method is if I need to use filters that don’t allow key framing of their effect then the filter is only good as a blanket affect unless I make further edits on the audio.
An example of this most recent mix included:
Levels adjustments
Compressor
Adaptive noise gate
iZotope RX3 vocal Denoiser
iZotope RX3 vocal DecracklerI even had to resurrect Soundtrack Pro to remove ambient noise (from an AC system( being that I don’t know if Logic has something like that – the set noise print feature.
By the way Oliver – I use this audio only plugin for crossfades on the same “track”
https://blog.alex4d.com/2011/07/11/fcpx-transition-sound-only/Tangier
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Having four channels (of a seven channel audio file) active and visible in expanded view on the storyline for a 28 min. edit. Selecting multiple clips of one channel to apply compressor or other sound processing filters. This is just to start. Toggling channels off and on per whatever I selected was slowly responsive as well.
Granted there could be many factors causing this. I went so far as to extract the individual channels and make them their own audio file in the finder then bring them back in to see if there’d be any performance difference.
I am on a 6-Core and Dual GPU Mac Pro with 32 GB Ram connected to an 8TB RAID 10 via thunderbolt.
FCP X just got so slow, beach balling a lot. Applying the filters caused a lot of waiting. I made sure to only be in waveform view – meaning their were no frame images showing on my storyline.
Using iZotope RX3 eventually bogged FCP X down so much it would take 7 minutes to open the library and at one point it just would open; sometimes the OS giving me an error that I ran out of application memory. Luckily I had an XML backed up to get be back go basics before I applied sound filter application which allowed me to open the project.
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