Audio Outputs added on XML import

When I import an XML file containing a sequence, I have found that Final Cut will ensure that it has at least as many audio outputs as the default preset.
So if I import a 4 channel sequence with my default output as 2, it will give it 4 outputs. But if I import this sequence with my default output as 8, then it will add 4 more (unwanted) outputs. This is unfortunate, as due to the repetitive nature of my work it's highly beneficial to have 8 as the default.
Is there any way I can specify in the XML file that I only want 4 outputs?
Thanks.

I think you might want to repost in the "Final Cut Studio" forum; this one is for FCP X only (not FCP 7). It works completely differently.

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Now, everything is in my premiere project nice and clean, however there's one big problem:
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Ok so i order to help anyone who is interested.
The only ironic solution to this problem i found was to use a plugin called xto7 to convert the xml to the old fcp7 format.
i then imported this into premiere pro.
this was then able to export an OMF that when imported into logic 10 that was using the correct 6ch mono setting as separate tracks.
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I planned on kicking off my journey attempting to edit a massive multi year documentary on FCPX with a nice introduction of the blog I'm going to keep about the experience, but I've run into a bit of a roadblock, or maybe major speed bump at least before even getting to that point. I wanted to share what is working as a work around for me and you guys can tell me how I'm doing it wrong.
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I use more then one account on my recent Macbook Pro. For the first account I like to have the audio output set to the speakers but for the other account I want the audio output set to the headphones.
With Mavericks the Macbook remembered the last audio settings for each user account.
With Yosemite any changes to the audio settings (input, output,system sound, etc.) on one account affects the audio setting on other the user account.
I tried various audio settings to see if it affected them all. It seems to.
I tried seeing if it happened only when the users accounts were logged in or it was different on boot etc. It seems to always change the settings for all users no matter what.
I tried resetting the PRAM but that did not solve it.
I tried a 3rd party program called AudiSwitcher from the App store to see if this could help but no luck.
I searched here and more widely to see if anyone else was reporting this and found one other person who seemed to mention the same problem and they concluded "I did some tests and came to the conclusion that the system now does not remember settings for each user, and applies the current setting of audio output for all accounts."
Curious to know:
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     b) Is this intended behavior or should I look for a way to report it as a bug?
     c) And most importantly if there is a way around it?
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I'm also have the same problem. I tested it on fresh Yosemite installation without any additional software. Your mentioned my conclusion about tests.

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I've been fighting with my recently purchased Zotac mini-PC for about 2 months now trying to get the HDMI audio output to work. I tried extensive modifications of /etc/asound.conf, different versions of ALSA, and even OSS without success. I've finally succeeded using ALSA and GNOME.
First I installed ALSA according to the Arch wiki.
Next I verified that ALSA detected my sound card(s):
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 28
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfcf7c000 irq 18
Next I checked which sound card had the HDMI jack:
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Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
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card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
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card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI]
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Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
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Arch Wiki ALSA Page
ALSA FAQ for how to change default sound card
ALSA FAQ
XBMC Troubleshooting for ION HDMI

@sprince09 Can you hear sound through HDMI when you run aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav -D plughw:1,7 ?
(8 and 9 also worked, device 3 gave static...)
- what does it mean? How do you know that they are working?
What options do you have for snd_hda_intel in /etc/modprobe.d/ ? Can you play the following:
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1,7 file.wav
BTW, can you hear sound form video files in xine? If yes, can you post your ~/.xine/config ?
Last edited by knedlyk (2012-01-21 23:41:57)

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But so far, they don't seem to provide me any special access to anything going on under the hood of an AIR app. When you stream live audio in through RTMP or RTMFP, the details of the audio are hidden from you. There doesn't appear to be any place where you can actually access the audio bytes that are being sent over the wire. You can specify a certain SoundTransform object for the NetStream to use, but that class is final and a vanilla Flash construct, so even if it may have a way to access the audio bytes, they're not acessible at all.
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Couple quick thoughts..
Limits are important. There's a large amount of work done to keep a clear separation between a users decision and a developers decision. For instance, you can't change a users default audio output because that clearly violates a users decision. That said, here's a whole mess of people debating the issue and actually eventually an undocumented COM API you can find that will actually let you do it in Vista/Win7 (but not 8), however don't expect that to be a 'good thing to do':
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9ebd7ad6-a460-4a28-9de9-2af63fd4a13e/programatica lly-setting-the-default-playback-device-and-recording-device?forum=windowspro-audiodevelop ment
You might want to get a beverage before reading that.
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp.html
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That isn't to say you can't use a multitude of ways of getting the data going across the default output device. Plenty of apps (fraps/etc) capture video and mixed audio streams. But Adobe isn't going to give you the keys to the kingdom and let you decrypt their protected media protocol.

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Sure,
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Hello,
I'm importing XML files in InDesign via a XSLT transformation.
The source file location is on a web server (it works perfectly, you can import an online XML file in InDesign). This is a generic source file, wich contains urls to specific XML files that will be effectively imported. This multiple-input transformation is performed in XSLT with the document() function.
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Thanks for answering.
I've found a solution so this is just to let you know.
I use the desktop version of InDesign. I'm importing in it, with a script, "specific" XML files located on a web server (an OAI-PMH repository). So the paths of these files start with http.
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A template would look like :
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The InDesign's XSLT processor can get an input from an online repository, but it doesn't seem to handle the document() function so it can't make multiple input. My solution is to let Saxon do this work. The script writes a batch file calling Saxon with some parameters, executes it and waits for the output, which is then imported in InDesign with no more processing. I would have preferred to let InDesign do the transformation but this is ok.
I hope I was clear enough.
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How can you send quality application audio to the AV amp (via TOSlink probably) BUT, keep system sounds on the Mac itself, or better to a small local pair of PC speakers (contained in the monitor perhaps)?
There's nothing worse than some good quality high volume audio being interrupted by deafening beeps and other system alerts. So how best to arrange 2 audio outputs that can be differentiated in the System Prefs so System sounds go out one port and other sounds (e.g. iTunes etc) out the other? Are USB and/or Firewire adapters the only solution?

Soundflower looks interesting, but I don't think it'll do what I want.
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2) I have considered taking my airtunes apart and tapping into the audio output and adding a second analog output. My warranty is already up but I am afraid the case of the airtunes cannot be opened without it breaking. This option does not fix the same audio distribution problem when I hook up my laptop.
I thought the integrated digital outputs on my macs and airtunes were ingenious till I ran into this problem with my new receiver. Too bad the receiver doesn't have a couple more D/As to route digital signals. With the number in there already for 7.1 channel audio I feel this shouldn't be a problem at least when listening to stereo digital signals.
Sorry for the long post, I will keep looking for a better solution, please post if you do as well!

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After watching Sountrack Pro reset all my compresors on export, and runing the mix, I tried an xml export from Final Cut Pro. After a half an hour and two crash outs -NO GOOD.
It maybe was a Quicktime 7.2 error - who knows.
It opened the XML and it asked to set Logic at 48K and said I had 2 files that were 44.1K which I didn't. I said OK, and it started up and started converting two DV captures that were about 30 minutes each. (Both where 48k already)
Then I got an "out of memory message" and the converstions kept processing --( I have 5 gigs of main memory and was on a 700gig drive - yeah ok.)
I finally cliked OK on the out of memory warning and it gave me about 30 more in a row when I gave up and shut down the program.
I tried opeing it a different way, setting 48k myself, it never did anything but have the same fit.
I just had a WMV encoder give false data rate info from a Quicktime file, it was not Quicktime 7.2 compatable, they had an upgrade - so anyway - this is so fun... like dropping barbells on your foot.. Why mix when you can debug..
XML -- Good Luck!

Hi,
I've been trying to do some XML export. It does work fine even if in the import process with Logic it won't take into account the first audio channels. It does import music so far. So I need to check if I change the channel settings what goes on anyway.
We want to do a mix out of Final Cut Pro with a Tascam DM-4800. It won't work fine with soundtrack even if I didn't try yet the 2.02 version. I may try tomorrow anyway.
I'm going to make some new tries and let you know.

How to Output Nodes from XML web service to a FLV?

Hi
I've used AS3 to query a web service and obtain the resulting XML. I need to parse the result down to just a few nodes for a given location. I can tackle that separately. I am wondering how I output the parsed XML to a flash video file (.flx)? The video has place holders for the XML node values. What do I need to do to place the XML results in the video?
Thanks,
Sid

Andrei1 wrote:
What is a content of XML nodes? I am not sure what you mean by "inserting nodes". Do you mean that you want to display some information over the video?
And yes, encoders do take XMLs to inject metadata into video. But this is metadata only.
OSML = Open Source Media Framework:
http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/
By inserting nodes, I mean that the XML web service returns data for each city, which needs to be parsed to just high temp, low temp and current condition. Those 3 values needed to be dispalyed over, or woven into, the video at each city location. My thought was that AS3 could somehow recognize the 3 placeholders for each city and insert the high temp, low temp and condition icon into each placeholder. However, when I import the FLV file into Flash, there are no elements into which I can infuse this data.

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