Wes Plate
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For those of you too new or out-of-touch to know, Jaime Fowler rules.
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Thanks for your reply. I checked, and this particular project has only one sequence, and one of the clips that says it is used has no little menu like you describe. Probably just a bug.
— Wes Plate
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Yes, PPro has been restarted. Thanks for trying. 🙂
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We’ve imported Nuendo OMFs into FCP using our Pro Import FCP plug-in.
You can send me an OMF to test importing if you’d like.
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Re-do the rough edit from scratch? Sure it is time-cosuming, but you’d have been done by now instead of fighting the XML thing.
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This has been widely posted, a google search of the exact error message should help you.
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Here’s info on why you need to replace your dongle…
https://www.avid.com/content/9824/ReadBeforeInstalling_DuoDongleInfo.pdf
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Lower field first, the pulldown phase really doesn’t matter.
The problems you’re seeing in the Avid could be other issues. Make sure the comp you are rendering is 720×486 if you’re doing non-DV, 720×480 if you’re doing DV in your Avid. If you are working in another comp size, like 720×540, nest that 540 comp into the 486 comp and scale it to fit (Command-Option-F on Mac, Control-Alt-F on Windows).
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Filling a need left by the host application is something that all plug-ins do, not just ours.
Different users have different expectations about what should be in the app, some expect high-quality titling abillity, some expect the ability to capture HDV, some expect volume rubber bands in their OMF exports, etc.
Developers (Apple included) have limited resources in terms of time and talent, so they cannot do every feature that every user wants, they have to prioritize. Since Boris made and still makes such great titling plug-is for FCP it probably didn’t make sense for Apple to reinvent that wheel, so they licensed a titler from Boris. Before HDV support was built-in to FCP you had to buy a plug-in in order to use HDV. Clearly this was a vital improvement to make in the application, so Apple was wise to invest their resources to add the feature. Would Apple sell more units of Final Cut if its OMF export included volume information? I suspect that it would not contribute to dramatically more sales, no. The OMF export that is built-in meets the needs of many users, for those who are more advanced and require their volume decisions to go into the OMF, a reasonably-priced option exists.
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When you go from FCP to AE just use your actual media file, if you do that you don’t have to worry about recompressing or exporting or anything. If you only want to deal with a small section of media you can export a QuickTime Reference movie, again you won’t recompress so you’ll know you’re starting in AE from a good place.
When you render, render to the codec that matches your FCP sequence preset. If you render to another codec, FCP will render the movie to your sequence preset for you. Animation is a good codec to use if you render with an alpha channel.
— Wes Plate
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