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Importing Final Cut Pro XML

Importing Final Cut Pro XML

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Relinking to File-based Media

If, in Final Cut Pro, you edited sequences using file-based media, such as QuickTime movies, you can then relink the exported XML to these files in Smoke.

Verify that the files you are relinking to are supported in Smoke. See Supported File Formats.

You can relink imported FCP XML files to file-based video or audio media.

If you are importing FCP XML with Varicam support, it will be identified as such in the Source Type box.

To relink FCP XML to file-based media:

1. Ensure that the path to your media files is correct. To change the path, drag to select the media segments in the list, and then click in the Path field.

   
   

   Once the path is correct, the Found field will display YES for each segment found.

2. If you want to soft-import the media files, drag to select the segments in the list and then, in the Soft-Import column, drag left or right to toggle between NO and YES.

   Note that not all files can be soft-imported (for example, audio files at 44.1 kHz).

3. Click Import All Files.

   All the files are now imported or soft-imported but not yet relinked. The Relinkable column displays whether the file is relinkable.

   
   

4. Ensure that all media files are relinkable. Click the Relinkable header to sort the list and group any NOs at the top.

   Some files that are not relinkable may only need to be resized so as to be compatible. For example, the Soft Resize feature allows you to import Quicktime files, included with the FCP XML, at 720x480 instead of the usual NTSC 720x486.

5. Select the files that are not relinkable, enable Soft Resize, and then click Import Selected Files.

   
   

   If the files are still not relinkable then they cannot be soft-imported. Try to import the files normally, or check with your system administrator.

6. Click Relink.

   A new reel with the XML filename is created in the clip library for each imported XML file. The assembled clip in the new reel has the same name as the original FCP sequence.