Dual Mono From Final Cut Pro X XML : Improvement Needed

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Olivier MATHIEU

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Dual Mono From Final Cut Pro X XML : Improvement Needed

PostSat May 13, 2017 6:26 am

Hello

With the fairlight capabilities coming in Resolve 14, it seems important, now, to me that importing a timeline should be flawless especially the sound.
I still have an annoying behaviour with the sound when I import my Final Cut Pro X XML. Let me explain thought some tests.
First test :
1 - Import in Final Cut Pro X a AV clip
2 - Make sure Audio configuration of the 2 channels is Stéréo
3 - Append the clip in the Project
4 - Export XML
5 - Import the XML ➧ "Automatically import source clip..." Checked
stereo_mediapool.png
No extra Clip in the media Pool
stereo_mediapool.png (13.23 KiB) Viewed 2394 times

sereo_timeline.png
Perfect Timeline with A/V linked Clip
sereo_timeline.png (26.12 KiB) Viewed 2394 times

It's all good to me

Second test :
1 - Import in Final Cut Pro X a AV clip
2 - Make sure Audio configuration of the 2 channels is Dual Mono
3 - Append the clip in the Project
4 - Export XML
5 - Import the XML ➧ "Automatically import source clip..." Checked
dualmono_mediapool.png
A new eponym compound clip appears
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dualmono_timeline.png
Audio track configuration is good
dualmono_timeline.png (23.59 KiB) Viewed 2394 times

Why is there a compound clip instead of the original clip ?
An answer is : the clip's Audio Attributes is still STEREO !!! ➧ So the compound clip appears to be a workaround for bas audio channel configuration.

Third test
1 - Import in Final Cut Pro X a AV clip
2 - Make sure Audio configuration of the 2 channels is Dual Mono
3 - Append the clip in the Project
4 - Export XML
5 - Import in Resolve the same AV clip
6 - Change the clip's Audio Attributs in Dual Mono
7 - Import the XML ➧ "Automatically import source clip..." Unchecked
Same result as the second test

How Resolve seems to work :
- doesn't care about audio configuration of the source clip from the xml: every source clip with 2 audio channels is considered as Stereo ➧ Compound Clip is created to avoid conflict
- doesn't care about the audio configuration of the clip in the Media Pool.
For me it's very poor mechanism ...
Any ideas, suggestions ?
Thanks
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Re: Dual Mono From Final Cut Pro X XML : Improvement Needed

PostTue May 21, 2019 9:31 pm

Trying this in Resolve 16 and FCPX 10.4.6, no compound clip but only getting a single mono audio track in Resolve
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Re: Dual Mono From Final Cut Pro X XML : Improvement Needed

PostThu May 23, 2019 3:50 pm

Thanks,
No compound clip ➧ that's a progress ;)
I will try
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