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:

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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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