FCP EDL Import from Color Misbehaving

I have successfully imported an EDL/Master file (from FCP)into Color, it razored automagically. I've done the grading and rendered out the graded media. Now how do I get the rendered media, with each shot in it's own folder, back into a timeline for output? I tried the export edl command in Color, but when importing it into FCP I get one long clip with a few markers that indicate errors (no duration)and media offline??? Tried an XML export/import with no success. Thoughts?
Thanks

ColorBob wrote:
I have successfully imported an EDL/Master file (from FCP)into Color, it razored automagically.
Automagic razoring in Color?
ColorBob wrote:
I tried the export edl command in Color, but when importing it into FCP I get one long clip with a few markers that indicate errors (no duration)and media offline??? Tried an XML export/import with no success. Thoughts?
I don't know why the XML won't work. You probably should check out the manual on the EDL workflow - which might lock you into that workflow in FCP. But I'm not sure and might be wrong.
However, all is not lost. Your clips when rendered are numbered in the order they appear on the timeline. So... write yourself a quick and dirty Automater script to pull out all the .mov files and drop them into a new folder. Import that folder into FCP. Select all clips and drop them into the timeline and they should sort automagically, head to tail in number order.
HTH
- pi

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