fcpxml - "DTD version is not recognized."

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alrightmates Author

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fcpxml - "DTD version is not recognized."

1) I exported an fcpxml file on an iMac (in Romania).

2) I copied and pasted the fcpxml onto an SD card.

3) I placed the SD card into a Macbook Pro (now in England) and dragged it onto the desktop.

4) The fcpxml file won't open. A window pops up saying: "DTD version is not recognized."

Any thoughts on how I can get the timeline that I worked on on the iMac (in Romania) onto my MacBook Pro (in England)?

I already have all the raw mov. files on the MacBook Pro, so I could just start the edit from scratch, but obviously that's the last option.

Posted on Sep 17, 2019 8:51 AM

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Answer 1

alrightmates Author

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Sep 18, 2019 11:37 AM in response to spherico

Thanks spherico. FCP 10.3.4 can read only 1.6 and 1.5. Looks I will have to upgrade my FCP.

As a side note, I imported the fcpxml 1.8 into DaVinci Resolve (which worked) and exported as 1.6 to load back into FCP. But FCP rejected it saying"DTD validation failed. (No declaration for attribute roll-up-height of element text").

But anyway, will probably upgrade my Final Cut Pro as you suggested. Thanks for your help!

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Answer 2

alrightmates Author

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Sep 19, 2019 3:18 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi Luis. Thanks for helping. I did what you said but it came up with this: I've now uploaded the DaVinci Resolve exported 1.6 fcpxml into dropbox. You can download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahszei8d82p91c9/1.6%20Tara%20rejects%20%28Resolve%29.fcpxml?dl=0

Many thanks for taking a look!

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Answer 3

Sep 19, 2019 2:55 AM in response to alrightmates

I have seen this error before on a thread here.

At the time, it was easy to fix, and I expect you will be able to fix it as well.

The solution is to open the .fcpxml in a text editor (like BBEdit, or even TextEdit) and remove the offending attribute:

basically do a search for "roll-up-height" and delete that occurrence.

If you want, you may post the fcpxml file somewhere and I will take a look.

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Answer 4

Sep 19, 2019 3:27 AM in response to alrightmates

In lines 750 and 765, change from

to just

<text>

(I am guessing that you may have deleted the tag completely, which would have the effect that you reported; there would be a "text-style" tag but no "text" to go with it; and also later there would be an error when encountering the closing tag "/text" in the following line)

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