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FCP to Vegas 9 and back
I am an audio engineer helping out on a low budget indie and need to edit dialog from a FCP project. I have Vegas Pro 9 on PC. Is there a way for him to give me a hard drive that I can read his project files, make edits to the audio and possibly video, add more audio tracks and save that back in a project format that he can open and continue to edit?
The original video files are .mov files from a Cannon DSLR. Would it make more sense to just have him render the scenes with a separate audio file and deliver back to him the audio files in Broadcast Wave format for easy syncing?
Thanks for any help. The last time I did any film sound design we just traded the ADAT tapes back and forth 😉
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There is really no way to trade projects back and forth between FCP and Vegas so I would have him do the latter, that is, render the scenes with a separate broadcast wave audio file and have you use the video as reference, add/edit the audio, and give him back the new broadcast wave audio file for him to use in FCP.
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hey there Travis, I’m sure this solution isn’t 100% reliable, but it actually worked in my instance.
My situation was I was given a 90 min documentary edited in FCP and I was to color correct, clean up and mix the audio in Vegas. For the most part it was a cuts only edit with some crossfades. I had a friend with FCP download the 15 day Boris FX AAF Transfer demo plugin and I emailed him the FCP proj file. He then opened the proj (he didn’t even have the media) and then simply exported via the Boris FX AAF Transfer and emailed that file back to me. I wasn’t expecting anything when receiving it, but the project opened (with a little help on my side by telling Vegas where the media resided).
Everything from what I could tell was intact and in sync. Even the few crossfades where intact. Automatic Duck also have an AAF Transfer tool, but they don’t have a demo version and their program is quite expensive. Oh yeah, you’ll also want MacDrive if the media is on a mac formatted disk and you’ll have to ensure to turn off the option where Windows will add the presumed extension to the filename.
Going back to FCP, I cannot tell you if it works that way since I was finalizing in Vegas.
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