PLEASE HELP!! ERROR CAUSED BY RETIMING

For your knowledge, X2Pro does not support re-timing in individual clips, but it does ignore the re-timing and pass the clips through to the AAF with the timing removed.
Because of the complexity of re-timing in compound clips, X2Pro is not able to ignore the re-timing in those instances.
If it is determined during the FCPXML parse, that a compound clip has re-timing, we will note the location of that re-timing in the project timeline and provide the information in the error message that is outputted..

As you noted in the error message, X2Pro will mention the instances of re-timed compound clips in your original project, so that the issue can be resolved quickly in your project.
There are 2 options to resolve the re-timed compound clip issue.

1. Remove the re-timing from the clip, and leave it as a compound clip.
2. Break the compound clip up into the individual pieces and leave the re-timing on those clips.

After you have done one of those 2 things, you ca re-export your FCPXML and try converting again.

Give that a try and let us know how you get on.

I've been using FCP for years and FCPX for a while - this is my first time with X2Pro and it seems like a complete failure. Apologies if I've missed something, but it tells me it won't generate an AAF because of retiming issues - and that's that.

No suggestions - no workaround. What the hell do you do - except wish you hadn't paid and go back to an export via FCP7?

Full text failure report attached as a file.



No AAF file has been generated.
X2Pro Audio Convert 3.0.13Errors were found converting from Final Cut XML to AAF

The following errors were found:
• Retiming of compound clips is not permitted. The retiming at 00:27:40.16 is not permitted
• Retiming of compound clips is not permitted. The retiming at 00:27:44.04 is not permitted
• Retiming of compound clips is not permitted. The retiming at 00:27:40.96 is not permitted

I'd like to begin by stating that I totally understand the chance of lack of interest in solving these X2Pro weaknesses. Not likely one retimes hundreds of clips in a FCPX timeline before interfacing with the sound engineer and it also means disorganization (in pre production or production or post production).
I found out that these are not cases in which the audio is to be kept the way it is by the audio guy. So... being patient and deleting all the problematic files works, not only in technical means but also as a reminder of "what not to do" or "what to consider" a priori and during the job.

In my case all retimed audio is mostly useless but needs to be there and to be reversed, retimed or reversed and retimed to fit the audio of the preview video that I exported.

Besides the reasons why I was brought here, that are mostly faults of mine and/or of both the boom operator and the director, I really think you should at least "teach" X2Pro to give a feedback of this kind for all problematic retimed media. Just so one can get an idea of the overall situation and behave accordingly.

That said, I really appreciate your feedback and your attempt to help me out.

Sincerely,

fp

At the moment, it will only notify you about 1 each time because it gives up as soon as it fails to read one file. We understand that can be frustrating, so we are working on a feature that will enable X2Pro to skip over problematic files (and report which files were skipped at the end of the conversion), but I don't know when that feature is expected to be completed.

I agree that it's also not clear when it reports problems with assets called "rXXX". What you can do when it does this is open the fcpxml in textedit (or any other text editor) and search forthe line that it finds should tell you the name of the file and the clip name etc.

Hey Jeremy, thank you very much for your answer.

Before I received this answer of yours I solved the problem with those 13 instances.

Unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to find the file reference of the asset r133 :)

But, now that you pointed at the file located in /_DEI/Scena 3/XML, I'm not surprised. That folder has already revealed itself as problematic.
Anyway, I had to go out of town just after the delivery of the audio file and, since I was in a rush, I used an XML translator, moved everything into both Premiere and FCP7 and exported two imperfect omf's that I sent to the audio guy (who's not very happy about them).

Now, the thing that troubles me is: does your 99$ dollars program just report one "unable to find asset portion" error message at a time or would it make a list of instances if there was more trouble? (I mean, like when I had 13 instances and was able to go find them and blow 'em up)
Because, if it did point at one major error at a time, it would be very very very annoying.
Not to mention the case in which you're not smart enough to find out what the asset "rxxx" is, that means feeling useless like a mule's condom.

I hope the file V1-0025__DSC3717.mov is really my only problem, so I can try again once I get back and finally send this damn thing to the audio guy, so I can make him happy :)

Thank you in advance for any answer. I'm really glad you're hearing me out.

Cheers

Just for your knowledge, X2Pro does not support re-timing in individual clips, but it does ignore the re-timing and pass the clips through to the AAF with the timing removed.
Because of the complexity of re-timing in compound clips, X2Pro is not able to ignore the re-timing in those instances.
If it is determined during the FCPXML parse, that a compound clip has re-timing, we will note the location of that re-timing in the project timeline and provide the information in the error message that is outputted..

Specifically for you, there is 13 instances of re-timed compound clips in your original project.
You have 2 options to resolve the re-timed compound clip issue.

1. Remove the re-timing from the clip, and leave it as a compound clip.
2. [Break the compound clip up into the individual pieces and leave the re-timing on those clips./li]

The error i was getting in your second FCPXML that you provided, is related to a clip named "V1-0025__DSC3717.mov".
That file is located on a drive names "Flashy" in the following folder "/_DEI/Scena 3/xml"

Would you be able to provide that clip to us to look at?

Here is my ultimate fcpxml

OK, so.... I created a Snapshot of my project and deleted every single compound clip in the entire timeline. I still have audios with some retiming effect because I applied that on the single video clips from wich I detached the audio clips.

Now, I desperately need to create this f**king aaf and pretty quick.
So, since I now only have audio on my timeline and I DON'T HAVE ANY COMPOUND CLIPS ANYMORE... Why do I get this message?

"Unable to find asset portion in asset r133 to match usage starting at 3.35423 seconds with duration 9.80333 seconds"?

Hi all.

I have a feature film (low budget production) to export in aaf and X2PRO (which I bought today) keeps wining about my retime editings. What should I do? Should I delete all retimed audios? I have already broken apart compund clips (it took me ages).

Please help me, I am losing my mind over this.