FCPX xmld into Davinci Resolve

Hello,


I'm hoping someone can get this escalated and fixed. I am currently editing a project in Final Cut Pro and hoping to export an XML into DaVinci Resolve. However, when I export the XML from Final Cut, it exports as an xmld file which I know is a bundle and that the XML is inside. Even after extracting that XML from the bundle, it still isn't available to import into DaVinci. It's greyed out. I am fully updated so the versions I'm working with for xmls are 1.10 and 1.11. It seems really silly that it's exported as a bundle to begin with but further not being able to import it is a problem.


The solutions I've found are:

1) Export all clips as individual clips from FCP which takes way too much time and the files are huge. Especially when you're working on lengthy projects.


2) Export the entire timeline as one clip, import it into Resolve as media, and then re-blade every cut that was made in FCP. This is also time-consuming and I feel that too much can get lost in translation here.


Does anyone have an alternate solution or know if there is any headway on if this is being fixed? This is a huge problem and will make me move to different editing platforms.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.1

Posted on Jan 11, 2024 9:35 PM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2024 12:52 PM

FCPX as of version 10.6 now exports a bundled packed with the suffix .fcpxmld, which is NOT a normal XML file (like it used to be). There's a web site that converts these to normal XML so you can use them with other apps.

https://en.editingtools.io/fcpxmld/


You can look inside the package and see what is now a regular FCPXML file, but it's more than regular xml, it's got coding in it. No clue why this is considered by some a step forward, with no other app can read it. Apple isolates FCPX more and more each year.

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Jan 13, 2024 12:52 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

FCPX as of version 10.6 now exports a bundled packed with the suffix .fcpxmld, which is NOT a normal XML file (like it used to be). There's a web site that converts these to normal XML so you can use them with other apps.

https://en.editingtools.io/fcpxmld/


You can look inside the package and see what is now a regular FCPXML file, but it's more than regular xml, it's got coding in it. No clue why this is considered by some a step forward, with no other app can read it. Apple isolates FCPX more and more each year.

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