Won´t send back to FCP

Hi everybody.
I have a big problem: When I´m done with my grading in Color, and has rendered, I go to " send to FCP"- it sends a xml file- but it doesn´t show up in FCP with the ( from Color)?? FCP doesn´t seem to read it?
I´m completely lost- I have used Color a lot with no problems so far. I changed my preferences just for the sake of having enough space for the render files- but that shouldn´t mess it up.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks- Adam Simonsen.

As I wrote i another post: my project concisted of many different sequences- the projectfile was 32 Mb- so it was actually huge. If i copied and pasted one of the sequences into a new clean project- then everything worked flawlessly- going from FCP to Color and back again. Don´t ask me why- maybe there is a limit of filesize- maybe the project got too big?? Even this doesn´t make so much sense. Thanks for good advice!

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I've finished a film and graded it. when everything is rendered, I export using either send to or as an xml. Both stop at around 50%. on the xml I get the following report.
I started out at a 20 min sequence then a ten minute sequence now I'm down to 5 minutes. i've got a 146 minute movie to grade and get back into fcp.
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On your first attempt, you tried sending the entire 146 minute project, graded and rendered it. Correct?
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And 146 minutes is too long for any single subject unless it is a remake of Warren Beatty's "Reds" or "Spending a little over two hours on a beach with Jessica Alba" so make it shorter... ;-P This is an undocumented feature of COLOR. No, really!
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Hi Hope someone can help. I send my (Clients) sequence DV PAL 720X576 16:9 anamorphic to color. BTW this was footage down-converted from HDV1080i50. Do all the color corrections and grading, footage looks great, send to FCP and hey presto smeared images in the viewer and canvas, thumbnails look ok in the timeline. Now what i mean by smeared images is not just a slight smearing but unrecognizable images, useless video.
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FCC63

Next time I'm across the pond (not that often) we'll break out the Bushmills, unless its Jamesons.
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jPo

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hi everyone, Please help if you know, I am very frustrated
i finished editing a music video HDV 1080i - 5 minutes long... a lot of the clips have variable speeds.
i sent the sequence to color and a lot of the clips are different than the ones in final cut. (what is weird is that the thumbnail on the color timeline has the right icon) but the video that plays is different, and when i go to render it, it shows its length as 1hr or so even if the edited clip is a few seconds long. so i can't even render it to check it out.
with all that, when i render and send back to FCP i'm getting a blank sequence (that is IF i get it to show).
NOte: i tried deleting the corrupted files before sending back and nothing good :s
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The "COLOR changes my ins and outs" is usually related to a Variable Time Remap, or some kind of fps incompatibility. Sometimes its the result of nested sequencing, which is in a way related to Multicllip -- all of which are deal-breakers as far as a round-trip is concerned. Final Touch used to re-create the entire source clip, but only insert the selected frames where it thought they should be, which was usually wrong, but there'd be a half an hour of black to wade through. Now it renders the entire source clip, and "you figure it out", is what it tells Final Cut, and sometimes it actually works, but only with constant speed remaps, so there is some math involved instead of pure guesswork.
But trouble shooting:
First, check to see if the media is properly rendered somewhere, anywhere, by using the FInder and Quicktime Player, that is, take Final Cut out of the mix as a possible error element. Try doing a Reveal in Finder on one of the Black clips that you have... "follow the money".
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There is a correct sequence of events in loading the RenderQueue, in that your target folder must be selected or created beforehand, otherwise everything will go to the pre-existing default directory. Then the XML created by the Send To Final Cut request will specify the folder that you subsequently created -- which, of course will be blank. This is a big, big problem that might be solved by moving the whole works into the created folder where you thought everything was going. maybe.
You MUST do an explicit "SAVE", not an autosave, after Render, to prompt COLOR to remember that it has done the render. If you don't, there is a good chance you will be doing it all over again.
jPo
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Any ideas why?
Not really, but it has been a continuing problem. You're sure it is the audio that is out of sync, and not the video? (Just checking) There are a lot of complaints, especially with HDV about frame drift.
Best solution is to lift the audio from the previous timeline and paste it into the graded (from COLOR) sequence. Even when a mixed stereo final is part of the workflow, it almost never comes back the same, so most, if not all, users avoid sending and retrieving audio as part of the COLOR roundtrip. In my experience, even if it somehow mysteriously lands back in sync, the pan settings are all slammed over to one side.
So we all just pull the original audio forward from the previous sequence and Apple can go onward in its delusional mindstate.
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Ok Shane, So actually just went over my Color outputs and I did render everything as ProRes 422 at 1280x720 ...and the clips back in FCP are scaled at 100% so that's good...for some reason I remember having some that came back at 133%...maybe that was just a couple clips somewhere that were wrong...I'll figure that out...but I didn't check Broadcast Safe on the renders so I guess I can go back and re-render with broadcast safe on...so we did shoot 720p HD and I AM going back still in HD from Color.
Now I'm having another issue with the HDV 1080p24 stuff...which is actually only 20 shots of the entire film. But for some reason I'm noticing that they are interlaced when viewing on my FCP timeline, which my settings are HDTV 1080i 1920x1080...now when I export the scene out to Compressor as a ProRes 422 1920x1080 .mov it actually looks great on my computer monitor...no interlacing that I can tell, looks great. However, if I drop it onto my FCP 1080i timeline then there is interlacing again...and worse, when I make a SD DVD it is also interlaced...most noticable an actor's shirt, there is a bit of Moire effect going on...this must be because I'm downconverting to 720x486?? So I've been killing myself trying to figure this one out. Doesn't appear that deinterlacing in Compressor helps any either. Is my only option to blur it out with a gaussian blur of around 2? (the HDV clips do show as 1080p24 in FCP) Not sure if the interlacing would be gone if I were to burn a bluray since it's a higher resolution?? My settings in FCP are 1920x1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9) Pixel Aspect: Square, Apple ProRes 422 BTW.
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At the point of sending color corrected files back to FCP from Color a window entitled "Send To Sequence Option" come up with the message: "Change graded Final Cut Pro sequence to match the Quicktime export codec?"
I'm using Apple Intermediate Codec in my FCP project and want to keep re-compression to a minimum. Being new to Color I'm not actually sure what is a stake here. If I press "No" does that mean my work within Color will be wasted or will if actually keep the color corrected footage in the Apple Intermediate Codec? I'm not anxious to switch codecs if I don't have to.
Anyone have info on this?

Stuart:
I am having the same trouble and am really mystified. I am working on an XDCAM EX 1080p24 35Mb timeline in FCP. I send all my files to Color, do corrections, and when I am ready to send my graded timeline back, I am asked whether or not to "change graded Final Cut Pro sequence to match the Quicktime export codec?"
Here's the mystery - if I click "yes", the sequence sent back to my browser in FCP is a 10 bit uncompressed sequence which will not play back smoothly for editing. Worse, if I click "no" the sequence comes back in what appears (according to sequence settings) to be an XDCAM EX 1080p24 35Mb timeline, but it also stutters, hesitates and won't play back, just like the 10 bit sequence, making editing impossible. (No rendering is necessary on this sequence when it is sent back from Color).
I have no problem playing the original XDCAM files on their timeline, but no matter what I do, I can't get my XDCAM files to come back to me graded from Color and play smoothly on their new sequence timeline even though Settings says it is exactly the same kind of timeline as the original.
Does anyone have any idea what is happening here and is there something I am doing wrong?
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