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fcp 7 to xPosted by davidblumenfeld
Hi. I have a project I shot on tape and edited 2 years ago on fcp7. The client asked me to do a follow-up on the story and I shot it with 5DMarkII and now want to edit it on x. They want me to make a few changes to the original and then add on another 2-3 minutes to the end of the video.
So, basically, I want to take the old project on 7 and upgrade it to x and then add new scenes. Is the 7 to X app the best way to go? I tried it and the subtitles are all misplaced and look terrible, and the clips don't look as good as in the original, I guess because they are being re-converted to another format now (ProRes) to match the canon 5d formatting...any suggestions on a good workflow for this? Thanks
7 to X would have no impact on quality. You can control the proxy/optimization process in X (turn it off).
It's possible it is having issues with titles. Make sure you have current version and contact the developer Philip Hodgetts as he's very good with bug fixes as well as documenting known issues. Usually he'd ask for the XML to see what's happening.
David,
7toX is the only way to go. Audio link errors definitively can be handled with XML. So I think Philip can help. Titles and subtitles can't be handled via XML since the new FCPXML can't handle, means does not support settings for them. So it's not Philip's fault and he can't change anything -- 7toX does a best guess, that's all it can do, titles in FCP are totally different from those used in FCPX. You have to re-edit them all. Just make a short test to understand. Create a little project with a few titles, tweak each title a bit, export as FCPXML, import the FCPXML. You will see that all of your settings are lost. One thing you can do -- it's cumbersome -- you can download my gRender app. It will create a new FCP legacy XML where each title is one frame long. Open the XML in FCP and export as image sequence. These images can be imported into FCPX and you can replace the titles with the images, they will look the same as in FCP but you can't change them i.e. text, font etc. Some workflow tools for FCP [www.spherico.com] TitleExchange -- juggle titles within FCS, FCPX and many other apps. [www.spherico.com]
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