Hi all,
Two years after I started this thread:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=1766874
and after 2 seasons of importing from FCP for use in Reaper, I can tell you that it has been a major pain-in-the-arse of a hassle receiving media from my editors who use Final Cut Pro, and importing that media into Reaper via EDL, XML and/or AAF.
My workflow is such that I receive the picture locked version of an episode, along with the music Temp Track that the editor and director have put together. based on that edit, I compose my score.
There are no tools that I have tried that offer a clear-cut solution to get an integral version of THEIR timeline onto MY timeline.
AATranslator works - but only if you have a limited directory structure (you can't use very long file names or the program doesn't convert and/or truncates the file names). I find the conversion from an AAF or EDL or XML to be tenuous at best - various paramaters appear to have gone "rogue" and I get multiple dual-mono-split media, volume and pan envelopes al lover the place etc. Whether that is AAT's conversion algorithms or the editor's export variables is anyone's guess.
So, basically, using AAT, I can import - but only with major work-arounds and clean-up afterwards.
The other solution I have seen is VORDIO:
http://vordio.net/convert/
But according to their website, it requires installation and a separate conversion on the client side - which is not something I am even willing to consider. (The site does not detail if you can just export an XML file from FCP if you already have the media on your end).
So there you go - is Reaper a total BUST in the post audio department?