Andy, Regarding the missing option of formatting text in the XML have a look at my XTI (http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTI/index.html). I use notes for the text with style notes, so you at least can search for them and "batch set up" some parameters -- not even even close to perfect, but at least a good help. In the old days I had good fight with Apple to implement the TOC feature into the Apple Event XML query -- it's a pain that both Apple Events and a real parameter based XML are lost. I did send a feature request to Apple almost the same day the XML import/export showed up in FCPX. Regarding the Events create a new empty Event and use this with your XMLs. Hope this helps a bit. -Andreas On Sep 30, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Mees wrote:
Thanks for the quick answer James. Disappointing, but it is what it is and at least I can stop trying now! Hopefully good things come to those who wait … or something like that!
Cheers Andy
On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:06 PM, James Woodman <james.woodman@acteoncommunication.com> wrote:
In answer to your first question about creating new events... the answer is, apparently, no.
I asked a similar question a few weeks ago and was told that people have been asking Apple for this feature since FCPX came out. I've been working on adding data to events, but you can only do it by creating a new event each time you import the XML.
In answer to your second question... it would be great if it was possible to query FCPX for a list of events or projects and then ask it to export the XML for a particular item. But I haven't found a way of doing that yet. If someone replies with an answer then I'd love to hear about it direct or via the list!
Good luck.
James
On 30/09/2013 09:59, "Andrew Mees" <andymees@me.com> wrote:
Hi All
I have a quick question regarding the current FCPXML 1.2 version. Is there any syntax that can be used to prevent the creation of a new event?
I¹ve just created a rather quick and dirty utility to speed things up for myself by automating simple string outs of titles in FCP X. It all works well enough (disregarding the desperate lack of control for pre-formatting the text elements) Š but every time I import a new string out I get an associated new (and empty) event, and I¹m wondering if there is any way I can suppress that happening? A less quick question: In the past I seem to remember there were Apple Events that could be used to query an FCP application instance and return a list of open projects, so a 3rd party application could present a list of target projects for an operation Š is there any functionality like that currently available for FCP X users like myself?
Thanks in advance
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