LE Crashes when trying to Parse FCPXML

Hey James,

Thanks. It's been doing my head in as I've never had a problem in the past.

Anyway, the file was a 2pip from a ancient stock footage film burn ... it was 7kHz and some change. Very odd indeed.

Understood about the conforming rates ... its a 24p project, but there is definitely a few frame rates mixed in. I've copied the report and attached it to my AAF for the Audio House. But glad that it flags the files in the ProTools session.

Appreciate you sending the request up ... figure it would be good to know a prep process for XML>AAF ... I kind of have my own when I'm sending a XML for grade.

Thanks again,

Jonas

Dear Jonas,

Well done on your investigation. Regarding the 8kHz file I have to ask what device created it, as I wasn't aware that an audio file could be that low.

"Conform rates not supported" probably best to describe where this originates. In FCPX if the frame rate for a clip is 'close' enough to the project frame rate then FCPX wont run a conversion but just play it out at a different speed, i.e. if you had a 24 frame clip in a 25 frame project it will play the 24 frame clip faster to match the duration. X2Pro does not support re-timing and we therefore also cannot support conforming, what we will do is transfer the clip into the AAF with a conform warning so that you know which clip will need to looked at in ProTools.

Will talk to Product Management about a "do's and don'ts guide" however the basic theory should be we should be able to cope with any valid XML, and state in the transfer what if any clips need further attention on in the AAF.

Yours Sincerely

James.

Seems I may have found the issues after reading the usually annoying Apple Bug Report! One of the audio files was less then 8kHz ... converted file and it processed without error! Not sure how it passed my scene by scene test though ... maybe wasn't selected?

Couple things though:

What does "Conform rates are not supported. The Conform rate at 00:06:05.12 has been ignored." mean?

Also, is there any chance you could publish a guide that details some of the do's/don'ts when making a XML? I know auditions cause issue and now any file outside of 8-192kHz ... would be great to know anything else that causes problems!

Look forward to hearing from you and I'll let you know how it goes with the Audio House.

Cheers,

Jonas

Hello,

I've tried numerous approaches, but every time it seems my FCPXML crashes X2ProLE mid process. The crash consistently happens after X2Pro has been parsing the XML for approx. 1-2mins. I assumed there was something in the timeline that was causing the crash, so I tried breaking the film down scene by scene and exported an FCPXML. Each scene converted with no problem and generated the AAFs. I've even tried deleting the app and reinstalling it.

Is there something I'm missing or have overlooked? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I've attached the FCPXML of the project for you to review.

Details are:
X2ProLE (3.0.5)
FCPX (10.2.2)
OSX (10.11.2)
MBP 15" Late 2013 - 2.3GHz i7 w 16GB RAM and 2GB NVIDIA GT 750M

Cheers,

Jonas