Re: 10.03 released

[Gerrit Van Dyke] "I believe you still can't export a proper XML from FCP X that can be opened in FCP 7, Avid or Premiere right? That seems to be one of the big ones. As someone who doesn't use FCP X, I'm still concerned about working with outside suppliers for colour grading, online and audio."

There's technically nothing "proper" about FCP 7's XML format -- it's not like it's an officially ratified industry interchange standard. It's just something Apple created and documented and third parties supported. Third parties seem to be stepping up to support FCP X's new XML format as well, though it will clearly take a while for such support to reach the same level. But as someone who regularly writes internal workflow tools that work with FCP 7 XML files, I have to say FCP X's new XML format looks a lot cleaner, which will hopefully encourage more tools to be written.

Interestingly, FCP X 10.0.3 can embed industry-standard CDL data in its XML files now. Resolve can use this to carry over primary color grades, and other grading apps that understand CDL could probably add support for this fairly easily as well.

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