Originally published on hexisteme notes.
I run pre-registered checks against a live system, read the verdict, and move on — that's the whole point of pre-registering them, so I don't get to argue with the result after the fact. Most of the time the discipline pays for itself. This time it passed, and the pass was wrong, and the reason it was wrong is more interesting than the failure itself: the check could not have returned anything else, whatever had actually happened to the file under test.
The question
I was probing something narrow: does a hand-made audio crossfade survive a round trip through DaVinci Resolve? Build a timeline with a crossfade sitting on a cut, export it to FCPXML 1.10, re-import it, and see whether the crossfade is still there.
Third-party documentation says transitions are invisible to and unmodifiable by the scripting API. Believing that, I pre-registered a judgment method that never looks at timeline structure at all: render audio around the splice and classify it by waveform shape.
