James Carrick
Hi David,
We have discussed at length here with Product Management and Development, it appears after raising with Apple that they are probably not going to resolve any time soon the discrepancy between the XML detailing X streams with Y channels each, referring to media that is X streams of Y and Z channels. Therefore we will in the next release of X2Pro shuffle the audio down and take them as they are, and not as they are detailed in the XML. This is not something we want to do as ideally Apple should resolve and reconcile the difference between the FCPXML and MOV specifications, but we are where we are.
Regarding media, yes we totally understand, and just so you are aware we only ever use media in the lab to investigate an issue and then delete it, we have several NDA’s in place with Sony. But we would normally confirm which covered which before arranging any media, and provide a drop only ftp site. However we don’t need any media from yourself as we are 99.9% sure what the issue is. You can confirm it yourself by checking the audio layout of the file.
The only workaround we can see is to regenerate the mov in question so that the number of channels is equal in each stream. You may have to import this into an Editor, and in this case copy channels 5 and 6 to channels 7 and 8. Or create it as one audio file with 6 channels, and then replace the one in the FCP project.
Hope the above helps.
Yours Sincerely
James.