color xml file back to FCP
by Ace Cruz (editcrib)
on
May 20, 2008 at 5:03:00 pm
I have an xml file from color and I opened it with FCP 6, which opened fine. I then selected everything on the timeline and asked FCP to reconnect everything. When I do that I hit the locate... button and find the folder with the color media in it and hit choose. I get a "file attribute mismatch" message and I hit continue and it only links one shot at a time.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. I want it to connect to all the edits at once not one at a time.
Re: color xml file back to FCP by Ace Cruz on May 20, 2008 at 5:34:32 pm
well, can you please explain to me how it does work. My friend who colored the project in his computer links up fine, but when I copied the files to my computer, I have to link one by one. I am also getting an unspecifed path: under the offline files: in the Reconnect Files box when I ask FCP to reconnect the media.
help anyone.
Re: color xml file back to FCP by Joseph Owens on May 20, 2008 at 7:22:37 pm
sorry, I thought you were trying to re-link in COLOR. My bad.
You have a project that was rendered out of COLOR, created an XML export file, which opened in FCP... and you saw what? that needed to re-link media? Where is the COLOR rendered media and is it the same codec and clip length as the media sent to COLOR?
It might be as simple as clicking the "Reconnect All Files in Relative Path" radio button in the Reconnect master dialogue. However, if there is an error in the file type (mismatch), then it may not operate exactly as advertised.
Why does this not work as a "Send To... FCP" Media Manage if the project needs to be transported?
Re: color xml file back to FCP by Ace Cruz on May 20, 2008 at 7:55:12 pm
The COLOR rendered media is in a folder in my harddrive that was copied off another computer, it's the same codec and clip length.
I do have the "reconnect all files in relative path" checked already.
also in my reconnect files box it list all the color render files to reconnect under unspecified path. my "search single location" is also checked it will find the file, but will not "reconnect all files in relative path" it also stops at file folder 99 in the color folder.
My colorist gave me the files this way, so I don't know if "send to...FCP" media manage would of worked better.
Re: color xml file back to FCP by Joseph Owens on May 21, 2008 at 6:20:20 pm
The XML export generated out of COLOR is likely looking to reconnect to something with the path structure: Volume/Project Folder/Render Folder/Clip Folder/ClipN_gX.mov. If all the rendered QT movie clips have been stripped out of their safe little clip folders, then there is a piece of the address missing, and there will probably be file type mismatches, for sure if it was transcoded into uncompressed or ProRes, but probably suffers from clip length mismatches. That will occur with speed change clips, for example.
The best method that I have found is to Media Manage the project out from the resident FCP seat that the COLOR project was done on. Then its only a click away for the receiver.
