7/3/2023 0 Comments Clipexporter for fcpx![]() ![]() That's a big drawback for creative work and had to be fixed! Finally I found a way to reverse engineer the clip's unretimed duration and in-point. In my own work I tried to avoid using retiming, when I knew that the clip has to be exported as a Quicktime file with ClipExporter later. (See above video.) They are a hell to handle and I undertook multiple approaches to support them with the prior version - but I failed each time. I hope people recognize the potential this app has. It took me 4 months with 10-12 hours of labour a day to finish coding the app and making the demo videos. But soon I realized that parsing the XML from FCPX requires a new and better approach in order to stay future-proof. As a music video maker I use multicams a lot, so this began to bother me. Bugs affected especially multicam clips and all I could do was "cheat-fix it" which would not work in the long-term. As stated in the "Whats New" video, ClipExporter 1 became unreliable since Apple changed the XML structure over time.To ensure its development and support, I had to work on it on my own for months – the only way to achieve this, was to make it commercial again. ClipExporter is an important tool for VFX workflows in the FCP X eco-system. So ClipExporter did not evolve (on the base of voluntary supporters) and this was sad. I was hoping for developers to join the open source development and help ClipExporter to grow, but no one was interested. To implement them would have meant a big time investment, which I could not afford. Users sent me feature requests that I had to deny because I didn’t use these specific features in my own work.Why I rewrote ClipExporter and made it commercial (again)? Also the support for export of trimmed, native RED files that opens the app to a new user base. ![]() This is something that I was missing in my own workflows. For example the linked mode, which rebuilds some kind of "consolidated" timeline in After Effects using the exported and trimmed video files. It took several months to rewrite it and I am excited about some features. ![]() ![]() I am happy to announce that ClipExporter 2 is available in the App Store. Thomas explains in these videos and in the text below: Things have moved on and Thomas wanted to update ClipExporter, after all it was a tool he designed to make his life easier! So we welcome back a completely rewritten ClipExporter 2.0. Keeping the app updated to match Apple's mutating XML and providing support was too time consuming. It then got removed from the app store and the source code was made public. You might recall that ClipExporter started life as small $16 application for taking a clip from FCPX into a third party application. There is 19% off until the 23rd of November bringing the price down to $89.99. Monday morning and we are pleased to announce that ClipExporter 2 is available to download for $109.99. Thomas Szabo wrote to us last week indicating that his ClipExporter software had been updated and was about to go back onto the MAS. Want to export a section from a clip (or clips) out of FCPX for use in another application? ClipExporter 2 is now live, new features and it's back on the Mac App Store. ![]()
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