Problem with export to Color with L & T plugin

[tunemonkey]

Hello all. At work I'm trying to use the Log & Transfer plugin to import R3D files into FCP, cut a spot and then send to Color. I can import the R3D files, and cut a spot, but when I send to Color, nothing appears in the timeline of Color. The FCP timeline is a simple one with no effects, transitions etc. It's just to test the workflow before the real job next week.

The Mac Pro that I'm using is a 8 core 3.0 with 5 Gb of RAM and an ATI X1900 graphics card. Quicktime has been updated to 7.4.5 along with the ProApps update. The machine is running OS 10.4.11.

As an aside, I have a Mac Pro at home and this workflow works for me on my machine. The only difference is that I have an nVidia card and I am running Leopard.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can get Color to show the timeline from FCP, please let me know. Maybe upgrade to Leopard or reinstall the FCP suite?

Thanks,
TM

 

[Manuel Wenger]

did you look in the message window in color if you get any problems reported ? (setup tab)
Instead of "Send to Color" try to export an XML from FCP and open the XML in Color.

If that doesn´t work either, my guess is the combination of QT 7.4.5 and Tiger isn´t a good one. Have no problems here with Leopard and QT 7.4.5

Manuel

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Export EDL, perhaps... And locate the folder with the files

 

[Jerry Hofmann]

i saw this behavior once too... what I did was duplicate the sequence involved and place it in a brand new project file... viola. Hope this works for you..

Jerry

 

[timecodemultimedia]

Jerry is right. I do the same thing -depending on the project-. A lot of times FCP gets the sequence corrupted. You don't really notice until a problem happens. And usually, the solution is to bring your timeline into a new fresh project.

It also happens when using the media manager. Every time I conform an offline for an online (whether traditional or digital) I start on a fresh project to avoid media manager sucky way of reading the usable media in the timeline.

 

[tunemonkey]

Thanks for all the good info. I'll try those things and report back.

Thanks again.
TM

 

[tunemonkey]

There are no messages in the messages window in Color when I send from FCP. I exported both an xml and an edl and in both cases, no images appear in Color. The only thing I haven't tried is to upgrade the Mac Pro to Leopard.

Are there any further workflow downsides to upgrading to Leopard on a Mac Pro with a Blackmagic card that I should look for?

TM

 

[tunemonkey]

Installed Leopard, but still no go. Might try to reinstall Color.

TM

 

[Alex Carr]

i'm going to test the same thing when I get home, I want further reasons NOT to use this feature of FCP, as its screwed up two VERY good workflows,

 

[Paul Lee]

tunemonkey,
I ask a very stupid question (as I have not used the L&T function), but the media you are editing is ProRes and not the proxies, correct? The proxies are fine in FCP but Color refuses them.

Also, I recommend stripping-out any non-video clips and even audio. We went through a lot of this in the FInal Touch days.

 

[Aaronzo]

The suggestion to create a copy of the sequence and strip out the audio before sending to Color worked for me. Thanks!!

BTW -- I was able to send my ProRes 422 (HQ) versions of the RED files to Color just fine... it didn't refuse them. I'm running Tiger OS 10.4.11 / FCP 6.0.3 / QT 7.4.5 / MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16 / 3 GB RAM.

tunemonkey,
I ask a very stupid question (as I have not used the L&T function), but the media you are editing is ProRes and not the proxies, correct? The proxies are fine in FCP but Color refuses them.

Also, I recommend stripping-out any non-video clips and even audio. We went through a lot of this in the FInal Touch days.