Sending to Color

So I'm trying to send a project to color, but every time I try I get an error saying "XML Export Was Aborted Due to A Critical Error"
I've tried to just make an XML, not sending it to color, and still no dice.
Anyone have a solution? I'm going insane trying to get this working and it seems that others have had the issue, but not the solution,

It is multi-clip, but I did collapse it first.
I sated this earlier, but just for anyone who may stumble upon this later...
So after a long experiment I found 2 things that caused problems.
First it's a DVCpro project... If i had the time and disk space to media mange it over to ProRes I would, but I can't From what I'm seeing Color is not best friends with DVCpro... So I found working in segments under 7 mins worked just fine. Not a big deal, this is a concert so I'm sending each song individually. This has made life good getting into Color.
I then had issues throwing back to FCP from Color. The issue was that I had freeze frames in the edit... After I removed them and went back to Color, no more issues.
Unfortunately I didn't edit this project so It need a lot of prep to get it into Color.
thanks for the help everyone.
Tommy

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I have just installed FinalCutStudio2 and am trying to use the File>send to color command, (on a sequence)
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if i export an XML and open it with color it works but the send to color command will not work,
Any idea's???

I had the same problem and it was related to the clip being in a folder with an ampersand (&) in the folder name. If there is an ampersand in the file name or folder name that the clip is in Color will close right after opening.
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Hi all,
When I use the function "send to color" in Final Cut 6, the sequences are sent to color, but they are totally messed up. I got wrong "ins" and "outs" in each sequence. Does anybody know the answer for this kind of bug?
Thanks a lot.
- Andrea

Several reasons:
I believe that that is referring to as directly IMPORTED media, not SEND TO COLOR sequences. The two are not the same thing. I could be wrong, but that's what that part of the manual is addressing (look on that section heading on the page before).
Then, from page 41:
"Step 3: Recapture the source media at online resolution if necessary If you originally captured your source media using an offline format, you’ll need to recapture the media used in your project at the highest available quality prior to
sending it to Color. "
"If your media was originally recorded using a compressed format (such as DV, DVCPRO-50, DVCPRO HD, or HDV), then recapturing it using the original source codec and resolution is fine; Color can work with compressed media, and automatically promotes the image data to higher uncompressed bit depths for higher quality imaging when monitoring and rendering."
"Note: Some codecs, such as HDV, can be more processor intensive to work with than others. In this case, capturing or recompressing the media with a less processor-intensive codec, such as Apple ProRes 422 or Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), will improve your performance while you work in Color, while maintaining high quality and low storage requirements."
Clearly they included HDV in the workflow and not in a transcoding sense.
Also DV NTSC is approved on that list and it does the same thing.
And if you media manage and transcode to Pro Res it still does it. That would make it one of the approved formats on the list. Problem is still there.
In FACT, the ONLY way that you can get HDV in and out with the right in and out points IS the direct import method rather than send to Color, and its not even supported on according to the list you're quoting!
Sorry its just not that simple. Its either broken or the documentation is faulty.

Send to color from FC timeline

Color does not appear in list of send to options when I click in the timeline of Final Cut Pro. It does appear in the "send to" list accessed from the top of the screen.
Any idea why?

Yep - that's the way it works.
You don't send cuts out off your tl.
You send the seq out from the Browser by rt clicking your seq>Send to>Color
or from the File menu.

When sending to Color from FCP, my video is mostly black, with some green highlights.

I have a sequence of ProRes 422 (LT) and I'm trying to send to Color from FCP, however, when the project opens, the video shows up as mostly black, with most highlights green, blue and red -- but 90% of the frame is completely black. The weirdest part is, in the Color timeline, I can see the thumbnail for the video and it looks just fine.
Currently, I have a 2010 Mac Mini with 4gb of RAM and it's hooked up to my monitor through the HDMI port. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Send to Color Error

In the past this has worked but in the last week every time I try to export to Color I get the same edit which is not even loaded as a sequence.
It is an early assembly of the same project but I have closed all other sequences and only have the sequence I wish to Send to Color open.
I have even tried Exporting an XML and when I open it in Color it is the same incorrect sequence.
I've deleted preference in Color(1.0.2) and Final Cut Pro (6.0.4) but with no better results. I may have missed something in trying to reset the problem.
Does anyone have any clues on how to fix this bizzare fault?
Also posted this in the Final Cut Pro forum
TIA
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"Have you checked that you don't have any nested sequences in your timeline?...and you have read the manual about preps for sending from FCP to Color right?"
Yes to both of these questions and the 'send to Color' process was working correctly previously.
I've just spent about 40 minutes on the phone with Apple Professional Software support and trashed both my FCP and Color preferences under their instructions.
Unfortunately this hasn't cured the fault. I have now confirmed that more than one separate project is giving sililar results.
Each project, with different source media on different drives, ends up with an earlier sequence, which isn't loaded on the timeline when I Send.
I've tried sending from
1) The time line with only one sequence open
2) By right clicking on the sequence
3) By Exporting an XML and loading it manually in Color.
In all cases I get a totally different sequence from the same source media.
It's really weird and I need to get this bug solved.
I've repaired disk permissions, and repaired disks (with no errors)and I'm stumped.
Appreciate any help offered.
New Hope Media

"Send to Color" command yields dark clips in Color...

HDV 1440 x 1080
Send to Color = dark video
Send back to FCP = still dark.
I have made sure to send my video from FCP with out any filters (other than widescreen filter), but it shows up looking all dark.
Why is that?
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The overall luminance drop in the non-corrected render has the feel of a gamma incongruity. I don't know how the "black & white" is being generated. Whether it is straight "Y" with CB,Cr multiplied by zero or what might be going on there.... COLOR expects full Y,Cb,Cr as incoming media and converts it to RGB... so in this case, if its only Y, then R must equal G must equal B or there will be a tint. This math can be inexact, and I have to wonder what else is going on in the render engine, which is a different path than the preview display.
If this footage starts out as HDV, I'm wondering if there is a Quicktime thing happening in the render to whatever your chosen format is. Have you tried that format conversion outside of COLOR, that is exported directly out of Quicktime for example?
jPo

"Send to Color" Not appearing.

When I installed Final Cut Studio, I opted to not install Color to save space on my computer; I had no need for it at the time.
Since then, I have installed Color (I did not reinstall Final Cut Pro), but when I right click on a clip in my sequence, the option "Send to Color" does not appear. The option "Send to Motion" appears, and works. I installed Motion at the same time as Final Cut Pro.
Do I need to reinstall Final Cut Pro and Color at the same time to get this to work? Or is there another solution?

"Send to Color" appears in the browser when you have a sequence selected, not a clip in the timeline.

SEND TO COLOR SHORT CUT VANISHED

HI All
i've just clean installed my mac pro quad and the time line short cut send to color doesn't show up although it is present in the edit menu can anyone help? is this a bug in the latest update? i have reinstalled the entire suite FCS2
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How's about selecting a sequence, have you tried that?

Send to Color is not available in FCP

Hi,
Last year I installed final cut studio 2, and have FCP 6.0 and Color 1.0 installed on the same computer. When I go to the Send command on FCP, the option to send to Color is not available.
I'd like to mess around with Color, but can't get any clips on it..
Anyone had this problem or knows how to fix it ?
Thanks !

Do you mean...
COLOR is not there at all in the "Send To.." pulldown tab... or
it is greyed out?
Can't help much in the first instance because its not in my experience base... might be a prefs or install issue. If its not offered, but is named, then its a case of selecting the open sequence.
It is also possible to open COLOR separately, name a project, SAVE it, and have it become active. You should be able to navigate to a media directory in the SETUP/Shots dialogue, and import clips from there. Be sure to set the project fps rate before importing any media... that is a project deal breaker from the getgo. There are very few after-the-fact "sequence setting" options. After adding media, it is not possible to change the frame rate of the timeline. It was the first thing to check off in Final Touch before proceeding with anything else.
Kind of like setting frame dominance and interlace in SHAKE. Immediately.
jPo
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I just installed Final Cut 6. The "send to Color" is not an option from the send to section from the clip. Does anyone know why it is not present or how to fix the problem? Thank you!!

If you haven't found any bugs in it yet, you will. I just finished a two-day training session, and we all experienced instability on some level. Even the instructor had things happen that weren't supposed to. Color promises to be one of, if not the most important piece of the FCP Suite. But it's no more stable than Motion 1 was. In fact, it might even be less so. Give it time. It will come of age.
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All software has bugs and glitches. I've never seen a perfect program. If you use an application long enough, sooner or later, something will happen that isn't supposed to.

Send to Color results in single still frame

When I send to color, some of the clips only display a still frame of that clip. The clip in the color timeline is of the correct duration, but it simply repeats that single frame. This happens even if I export the XML from Final Cut and import it into color. It also happens if I start a new sequence that includes only the problem clips.
I'm using a RED camera workflow in which the Final Cut sequence is using a 1k proxy of the 4K master .r3d files.
I'd be grateful for any tips.

Got me then...post the question in the COLOR forum. More knowledgeable people there when it comes to COLOR.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1138
Shane

Artifacts showing up in my file-- send to--- color XML workflow

I lurked these forums, couldn't find anything covering this issue.
I am kicking out my picture lock from FCP to Color using the file -> send to-> Color utility.
When Color opens up, with my XML data in the timeline the image in my viewport ends about 100 pixels from my frame. the remaining 100 pixels are artifacts generated by taking the final pixel in every row and repeating them to edge of my 2048x1024 frame, looking like a stretch filter was applied on it in After Effects.
These are not in my 2k prores HQ clips in FCP.
My project settings look okay.
Where should i start trouble shooting this?
The clips are Apple Prores HQ 24fps
thanks in advance, folks.

What video card are you using?
On the project I just wrapped I noticed the same thing when pulling up still stores. The bottom 100 pixels or so seemed to have come from a previous image. Toggling the still store on/off fixed the issue. But every time I pulled up a new image on the SS I'd have to toggle it to fix.
This happened on both a ProRes and a DVCPro HD workflow.
- pi

XML or Send to color

hi im very new at this, i have gone over the manual and i see you can either export a XML or do send to Color im just wondering if one is better then the other and other part of this question is i also saw that you dont have to render an XML out you can just export it and then bring it back in to FCP is this true.

"Send to FCP" is a convenience. If you're having trouble with correctly re-linking clips back in FCP or the command just doesn't work, then move on to "Export > XML".
"Export > XML" generates a 'cleaner' or more tidy XML than the "Send to FCP" command. I've found that it will frequently work when the Send To command fails. I think this is because the Export command modifies as little of the original XML file as possible and is therefore more likely to correctly round-trip. I forget the exact details, but I noticed on one job where I moved media around and had to use the Relink command in Color - Send To FCP relinked properly but Export > XML was still pointing to the original directory of the source footage (only half the project was rendered out).
I've gotten into the habit of first doing an Export > XML and saving it until I've done a successful Send To FCP. When the Send To command fails it can sometimes cause Color to "forget" that it did an overnight render and lose those links. Doing Export > XML first saves that data no matter what happens later.
This explanation is a bit more lengthy than I intended. Hope it's not too confusing.
- pi

FCP Wont Send To Color???

Hello All,
I am running FCP Studio 2 on my Mac Pro Quad and when I select my sequence to send to color it does nothing as if I didn't click on it. Does anyone have any suggestion on what's going on? Please help. Thanks

I'd start with a quick REPAIR PERMISSIONS in the DISK UTILITY application under UTILITIES folder (in APPLICATIONS folder).
Sometimes aps can't find correct permissions to things... oh heck, I have no idea why it works sometimes - just do it.
THEN, if that doesn't work...
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CaptM

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Hi. I am a film student and am using Final Cut Studio to edit a short film.
It's been recorded in PAL Anamorphic. I edited it in FCP, and when I select the sequence and send it to Color, Color opens, and crashes while "Importing Final Cut Pro XML".
Color seems to load fine if I open it by myself, but when it imports the sequence from FCP it crashes.
If I try to do it again, it even asks if I want to overwrite the project. I accept and it crashes again.
I can launch Color and open the project file, but it has no video inside.
I don't know why this can be happening. I could use Color before (8min projects), and I could even use it today (30sec project), but the video didn't load completely (3 shots, only the one in the middle showing, the others had a cross over them). I sent a larger file, to see if the problem wasn't with the "starting" and "ending" shots, but it crashed.
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Thanks,
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Have you read the release notes for Color and made sure that there are no 'gotchas' in the sequence you are trying to send to Color?
There's a chance that there's something in the timeline that Color doesn't like. Take that out or depending on what it is, 'bake' it in and you will increase your chances of getting the Send To to work.
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