Help please! X2Pro errors: “Unable to Parse”, “Asset has no media”

I can see that there is a problem but we will need the XML to investigate further, the message is one which describes the internal name of an asset in the project but the XML is needed to work out what file that relates to. It appears that one or more assets has audio of a type which can’t be extracted by the software, it may be that they are not compatible with the AVF audio extractor or they could be corrupted (not very likely). If you can convert these assets to a proxy format the proxies will almost certainly be readable, however, a copy of the XML would allow us to identify which asset(s) need to be converted and also allow us to request a sample file to investigate the reason that the audio in them can’t be extracted.

Dear Bob,

Thanks for the xml,  looking at it the issue is that it has an asset listed
       

But it has no details and is not closed and complete,  i.e. it should look something like this.

       
           
                Ym9va5gEAAAAAAQQMAAAANEsGwCPamQiI9g1aBtJpvdFk+xD/KYpP2pvvoyAgoapuAMAAAQAAAADAwAAABgAKAcAAAABAQAAVm9sdW1lcwAJAAAAAQEAAEFGX01haW5fMgAAAAcAAAABAQAAMV9WaWRlbwAGAAAAAQEAAERheV8xNgAABgAAAAEBAABBMDU3XzIAAA8AAAABAQAAQTA1N18wNzI0NTkuUkRNABQAAAABAQAAQTA1N19BMDE1XzA3MjU1OC5SREMYAAAAAQEAAEEwNTdfQTAxNV8wNzI1NThfMDAxLlIzRCAAAAABBgAAEAAAACAAAAA0AAAARAAAAFQAAABkAAAAfAAAAJgAAAAIAAAABAMAAAFcAAAAAAAACAAAAAQDAAACAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAEAwAAbAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAMAAHoHAAAAAAAACAAAAAQDAABTCAAAAAAAAAgAAAAEAwAAVQgAAAAAAAAIAAAABAMAAKkIAAAAAAAACAAAAAQDAACrCAAAAAAAACAAAAABBgAA4AAAAPAAAAAAAQAAEAEAACABAAAwAQAAQAEAAFABAAAIAAAAAAQAAEHFODsVAAAAGAAAAAECAAABAAAAAAAAAA8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAQkAAGZpbGU6Ly8vVm9sdW1lcy9BRl9NYWluXzIvAAAIAAAABAMAAABAf+vpCgAACAAAAAAEAABBxTdkfAAAACQAAAABAQAARDhCRTRCQkQtNkUwNC0zQzQzLThBMzktMDRCODVFNzQ3MDRDGAAAAAECAAABAQAAAQAAAO8TAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAAAAAQEAAC9Wb2x1bWVzL0FGX01haW5fMgAACAAAAAEJAABmaWxlOi8vLwwAAAABAQAATWFjaW50b3NoIEhECAAAAAQDAAAA4AHj6AAAAAgAAAAABAAAQcXIHQAAAAAkAAAAAQEAADk0OUVBNDRELTQ2NDgtNEJFMS04RDU1LUIyNTc0NEE3ODYwNxgAAAABAgAAgQAAAAEAAADvEwAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAEBAAAvAAAAYAAAAP7///8A8AAAAAAAAAcAAAACIAAA9AIAAAAAAAAFIAAAZAIAAAAAAAAQIAAAdAIAAAAAAAARIAAAqAIAAAAAAAASIAAAiAIAAAAAAAATIAAAmAIAAAAAAAAgIAAA1AIAAAAAAAAEAAAAAwMAAADwAAAEAAAAAwMAAAAAAAAEAAAAAwMAAAEAAAAkAAAAAQYAAGgDAAB0AwAAgAMAAHQDAAB0AwAAdAMAAHQDAAB0AwAAdAMAAKgAAAD+////AQAAAAADAAANAAAABBAAALgAAAAAAAAABRAAAGABAAAAAAAAEBAAAJgBAAAAAAAAQBAAAIgBAAAAAAAAACAAAIwDAAAAAAAAAiAAAEgCAAAAAAAABSAAALgBAAAAAAAAECAAACAAAAAAAAAAESAAAPwBAAAAAAAAEiAAANwBAAAAAAAAEyAAAOwBAAAAAAAAICAAACgCAAAAAAAAENAAAAQAAAAAAAAA
           
           
                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
           
           
               
           
       

It should have an   to end.

So we quite rightly fail to parse it,  there is reference later in the XML but only one line and that again is not complete,  so the XML is corrupt.  We have removed the two lines and we can process the XML and generate an AAF,  will send a link with both in via WeTransfer to you shortly.

Lines removed.
         
                                 

We created the AAF using the current version of X2pro5.

Hope the above helps,  not sure how FCPX created the XML so badly but it did.

Yours Sincerely

James.

Hi Bob,

As before the FCPXML was corrupt. If you open the FCPXML in a text editor and search for r1342 you will find two references to it, but they don’t reference any media files. All I did was remove the two references and save the FCPXML. After that X2Pro5 was able to Parse and Process the AAF.

I will send you a separate email with all the details.

Thanks

Hi,

Are you using X2Pro or X2Pro5?

X2Pro doesn’t support FCPXML version 1.12, so you’ll need to export the XML as Version 1.11.
The latest X2Pro5 does support FCPXML version 1.12. You can either export the FCPXML as 1.11 or upgrade to the latest X2Pro5.

Thanks

Dear Seth,

The asset r40 is referenced in the XML but in the section describing its use, it does not have the channels that it says it should have. Probably.

If you can attach the FCPXML we can take a look here and see what we can do.

Yours Sincerely

James.