Apple

Let me set the scene (this is a really common real world scenario; if we could find a solution for this I guarantee it would be massive).

I have a large documentary project being cut in FCP. There are three editors in total working on the film, each with their own sets of identical media. At the beginning of the job, all editors had identical projects with just the ingested media represented by lots of master clips. Each editor creates their own sequences which eventually need to be brought together as a whole in one single project.

Editor A controls the master edit whereas editors B&C are cutting specific scenes which they will then send back to Editor A using XML export/import workflow.

My problem? When Editors B&C send their XML exported sequences back to Editor A, on import into FCP the master clip relationship is broken between the sequence clips - in other words the sequences now contain independent clips. Sure enough FCP can now create a bin of new master clips associated with the new sequence but we need the sequence clips to be affiliated back to the original master clips in the project from whence they came; this minimises media management issues, project size and unnecessary confusion.

(I am aware that once a sequence leaves a project in FCP, the master clip relationship is broken and this is what is causing this issue. Is there any way that an XML doc can be edited in order to search for and then reconnect to existing master clips in the target project, rather than creating a bin of often identical new master clips?

Thanks

Alexander Snelling

Slack Alice Films