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Moving Footage From Unity to FCP
Hello all. We have a good amount of footage on our Lanshare Unity drive that we want to move to FCP. I know automatic duck takes OMF files and can convert them to FCP projects but requires you to re online or re digitize. I heard some where there is a utility that allows you to move footage from a Unity to FCP without Re digitizing. Does anyone know of anything like this?
We have a Lanshare 2 TB Unity running on Avid Media Composer (Version 13.1.1 I believe). Its an old version from 2002 or 2003.
We would be moving the footage to FCP 6.0.5 on G RAID 1TB or 2TB drives.Thanks
Daniel
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I thought that the newer versions of Automatic Duck also convert the media to FCP.
Your MC is likely to be MC12, BTW.
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Hi, thanks for your response! Yes I just checked it is 12!
I forgot to mention that what we need is ALL footage. ALL raw low res footage BINS captured low res 20:1 on Avid and all SEQ’s that are in Low Res 20:1 and HI RES 2:1. We essentially need to move a whole job (A very big one) from Avid to FCP without having to re digitize every single raw footage tape.
We’d be moving it from one client to another (in this case, external G Raid drives).
Thanks.
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Automatic Duck only works with sequences, though the new version will allow you to use Avid media without recapture.
As for recreating your project structure, with bins….you are kind of out of luck. Nothing really does that.
BTW…it would be very problematic for you to work without recapture. Avid media is NOT Quicktime…which is what FCP uses. You will not have ANY realtime performance within FCP of Avid media.
If there is anyway for you to keep this in Avid you should. Trying to make this workable is going to be a nightmare.
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If you need all footage and bins, do yourself a favour, and don’t do it. Or be prepared to start over from scratch.
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Why do you need to switch?
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Well we are moving to a smaller office space and the plan is to only bring one Avid and have 2 Final Cut Stations as our main workstations. So, we thought about moving one job completely over to Final Cut but without re digitizing and keeping all clipped out and logged bins in tact.
Also, in regards to moving an Avid (and getting rid of Two) to another location am I wrong to think that this requires a job of an Avid Engineer to come in and disconnect and re connect our system (patch bays also) in the new space we get? I look in our machine room and the wiring for blackburst, unity, and patch bays is beyond my knowledge.
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[Daniel Garriga] “I look in our machine room and the wiring for blackburst, unity, and patch bays is beyond my knowledge.
“If that’s beyond your knowledge, then yes…bring in someone who does this for a living. This is your business you are talking about. If things don’t work right you lose money….and its harder to fix stuff once you start using it. Make sure its set up right from the beginning….in the end you save money.
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