Hi there-
I'm kind of at wit's end here. I'm a freelance video editor, and my newest client is a perfectly lovely person who unfortunately has the technological knowhow of an Amish grandma -- and judging by the trouble I'm having with this, I'm not much better.
She's used iMovie '09 to put together a rough cut of the feature-length movie she wants me to edit. Ordinarily, I'd just do my best to make the edits within the program that was used to create the cut -- but I'm running a Tiger system and can't open her project files (not to mention that editing anything in iMovie, especially iMovie HD, is a nightmare I don't particularly want to deal with).
So I exported a Final Cut XML of the sequence from her laptop, brought it over to mine, and imported it into FCP (version 6). I've retried this multiple times, including borrowing a friend's brand new computer and re-exporting the XML from iMovie '11, but no matter what, I receive a long and repetitive list of "non-critical errors" as soon as the import is done. Almost all of them look either like this:
<sequence>: Unable to edit <clipitem> "Still 9.jpeg" into <sequence> "Psycho-Path rough - iMovie".( line 30978 )
or like this (this exact message is actually repeated hundreds of times in the error log without any change):
<sequence>: Unable to edit <transitionitem> "" into <sequence> Psycho-Path rough - iMovie".( line 3 )
When I try to preview the sequence, it's completely incoherent and unrecognizable from the cut she showed me on her machine when I first got the material from her. There are massive black gaps, shots show up for a half second at a time before disappearing into nothing, and I can't even change the length of the clips in the sequence.
At first, I assumed this was a formatting issue that had to do with her original imported footage. I tried importing the raw footage to the FCP project, and sure enough, it tells me that the media isn't optimized for Final Cut. So, thinking that it would solve the problem (or at least make it easier to solve), I used MPEG Streamclip to recompress her massive amount of footage into ProRes, opened the XML in TextEdit, changed the addresses of the clip files to reflect the locations of the new ProRes files, and tried re-importing it. No change - the sequence played a little less choppily but was just as unusable.
Any help on this would really be appreciated. I'm not sure if my terminology is all correct - I haven't had much experience with XML coding. I think I just need a push in the right direction to resolve this.
Thanks!
I'm kind of at wit's end here. I'm a freelance video editor, and my newest client is a perfectly lovely person who unfortunately has the technological knowhow of an Amish grandma -- and judging by the trouble I'm having with this, I'm not much better.
She's used iMovie '09 to put together a rough cut of the feature-length movie she wants me to edit. Ordinarily, I'd just do my best to make the edits within the program that was used to create the cut -- but I'm running a Tiger system and can't open her project files (not to mention that editing anything in iMovie, especially iMovie HD, is a nightmare I don't particularly want to deal with).
So I exported a Final Cut XML of the sequence from her laptop, brought it over to mine, and imported it into FCP (version 6). I've retried this multiple times, including borrowing a friend's brand new computer and re-exporting the XML from iMovie '11, but no matter what, I receive a long and repetitive list of "non-critical errors" as soon as the import is done. Almost all of them look either like this:
<sequence>: Unable to edit <clipitem> "Still 9.jpeg" into <sequence> "Psycho-Path rough - iMovie".( line 30978 )
or like this (this exact message is actually repeated hundreds of times in the error log without any change):
<sequence>: Unable to edit <transitionitem> "" into <sequence> Psycho-Path rough - iMovie".( line 3 )
When I try to preview the sequence, it's completely incoherent and unrecognizable from the cut she showed me on her machine when I first got the material from her. There are massive black gaps, shots show up for a half second at a time before disappearing into nothing, and I can't even change the length of the clips in the sequence.
At first, I assumed this was a formatting issue that had to do with her original imported footage. I tried importing the raw footage to the FCP project, and sure enough, it tells me that the media isn't optimized for Final Cut. So, thinking that it would solve the problem (or at least make it easier to solve), I used MPEG Streamclip to recompress her massive amount of footage into ProRes, opened the XML in TextEdit, changed the addresses of the clip files to reflect the locations of the new ProRes files, and tried re-importing it. No change - the sequence played a little less choppily but was just as unusable.
Any help on this would really be appreciated. I'm not sure if my terminology is all correct - I haven't had much experience with XML coding. I think I just need a push in the right direction to resolve this.
Thanks!