12th November 2024

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+**Metaburner v1.1.0** is out now on FxFactory!
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+![](/static/metaburner-v1-1-0.png)
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+For those that have been following along, Metaburner has proven to be one of the most challenging and complicated things I've ever built.
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+The idea is simple - we just want to be able to "burn in" metadata from a Final Cut Pro project, simple, right?
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+Whilst it didn't take me very long to throw together a proof-of-concept, getting it to work well proved to be incredibly complicated.
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+**Metaburner v1.0.0 (Build 1)** hit Apple's TestFlight on **16th December 2023**.
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+Thanks to the feedback and support of some of the best minds in the Final Cut Pro community, we iterated fast and pushed out [quite a few updates](https://metaburner.pro/release-notes/) improving things.
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+By **8th January 2024**, **Metaburner v1.0.0 (25)** hit FxFactory, our first product to be sold outside the Mac App Store.
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+All our initial paid apps, such as [BRAW Toolbox](https://brawtoolbox.io), [Gyroflow Toolbox](https://gyroflowtoolbox.io), [Marker Toolbox](https://markertoolbox.io), [Recall Toolbox](https://recalltoolbox.io) and [Fast Collections](https://fastcolletions.io) were all released on the Apple Mac Store.
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+So, why FxFactory? FxFactory has a number of benefits for us:
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+- FxFactory is a highly curated store focussed on editing professionals with a huge catalog of amazing products
+- FxFactory offers free trials and watermarked versions
+- FxFactory doesn't require Apps to be sandboxed
+- FxFactory offers developers advice and code-level technical support/guidance
+- FxFactory helps with user technical support
+- FxFactory helps with marketing and promotion
+- FxFactory has a number of technologies built into their software platform to make sure Motion Templates are updated correctly
+- The FxFactory team are super smart and super lovely - you have direct contact with their developers/engineers
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+On **24th January 2024** we released **Metaburner v1.0.7 (35)** on FxFactory - but then there was radio silence... except if you're in the Final Cut Pro Discord group.
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+After pushing out `v1.0.7` we decided to go back to the drawing board on a lot of things.
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+Whilst Metaburner was working fine in a lot of cases - for example, if you just have standard clips on a timeline - it wasn't working in more complex cases, such as re-timed Multicam Clips containing Sync Clips.
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+I enlisted the help of my long-time friend and collaborator [David Peterson](https://github.com/randomeizer) to do some paid full-time work on `FCPXMLKit` - our own Swift-based FCPXML engine that's doing a lot of the magic behind-the-scenes.
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+David also wrote [Capacitor](https://capacitor.pro) (which allows you to easily convert between FCPXML versions) as a test case for `FCPXMLKit`.
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+Things that we thought would be simple, turned out to be days and weeks of work.
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+I knew that Metaburner was never going to make any money, and investing so much time and money into the project was kinda insane - but I also knew that this kind of tool was so important to editors working in long-form - it's just something that NEEDED to exist.
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+FCPXML is insanely complex - and even though I work with it all the time, [even I have trouble explaining it](https://fcp.cafe/developers/fcpxml/#getting-source-timecode) in some cases.
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+After months of work, lots of maths (I'm terrible at maths), lots of experimentation, we FINALLY got FCPXMLKit to a point where it was working great in most cases.
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+But we also hit some performance issues - Metaburner was working, but it was slow.
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+Again, after months or work, emailing every Swift/FCPXML genius I know, and lots of swearing... EVENTUALLY I was able to get performance to a good state too.
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+It's not the most zippy of applications - but at the same time, it actually performs pretty fast compared to Final Cut Pro's own exporting of FCPXML on large libraries!
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+So whilst things have been fairly quiet publicly, we did 14 private beta builds of **Metaburner `v1.1.0`** - and there was a lot of Discord discussion happening!
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+I'm am HUGELY thankful to everyone who's been testing and putting Metaburner through it's paces.
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+HUGE THANK YOU to Matthieu Laclau, Sam Pluemacher, Knut Hake, Robin Moran, Florian Duffe, Tyler Nelson, Marcos Castiel, Geoffrey Orthwein, Josh Beal, Alex '4D' Gollner and Vigneswaran Rajkumar!
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+Also, an absolutely MASSIVE THANK YOU to the incredible [Steffan Andrews](https://github.com/orchetect) - who is probably on-par with Intelligent Assistance's [Dr Gregory Clarke](https://www.intelligentassistance.com/about-us/), as the worlds best FCPXML expert.
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+We've using Steffan's [TimecodeKit](https://github.com/orchetect/TimecodeKit) under the hood, and have also had some fantastic video calls with him regarding his [DAWFileKit](https://github.com/orchetect/DAWFileKit), which is absolutely amazing if you're a Swift Developer working with FCPXML.
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+So whilst I originally hoped to have Metaburner done and dusted by January 2024, it's taken until November to finally get it to a point where I'm mostly happy.
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+Sadly, I'll never make back the money I invested in Metaburner and `FCPXMLKit` - however hopefully this tool will make it heaps easier for editors to cut long-form projects in Final Cut Pro.
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+I learnt a HUGE amount for taking on this insane project, and we'll also be able to use `FCPXMLKit` for lots of other things in the future.
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+You can download a free trial of Metaburner on [FxFactory](https://fxfactory.com/info/metaburner/).
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+**Jumper v2024.11.12** is out now!
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+It includes the following improvements:
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+**🆕 Important Changes:**
+- We've removed silence checks from the speech processing pipeline (for now, since it causes issues in some cases).
+- If you have very long silent audio/video files, simply don't check the speech processing in the Media panel for these clips.
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+**🐞 Bug Fixes:**
+- Fixed issues with `.mxf` files having malformed timecode values.
+- Error-safe parsing of `.caf` audio file metadata.
+- We no longer ignore an audio file if there is some issue parsing the audio channel count.
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+You can download and learn more [here](https://getjumper.io).
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+**evrExpanse `v5.1.0`** is out now!
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+It has the following improvements:
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+- Significant performance boost when exporting metadata, up to 4x faster on Apple Silicon and 8x faster on Intel Macs, plus optimized Finder Tags extraction.
+- Improved precision in extracting gamma curve metadata from Sony Alpha cameras.
+- Fix Gamma Notes and Color Space metadata acquisition when Sony Alpha cameras get GPS coordinates from mobile device.
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+You can learn more [here](https://www.evrapp.cloud/evrexpanse).