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Final Cut to AVID?
I am working on a long-form documentary project and a talented young editor wants to work with me. Trouble is that she lives 200 miles away and uses Final Cut, whereas I use AVID exclusively. I am wondering if she might be able to digitize from my HDV tapes, edit scenes on Final Cut, then send me the lists of shots and time codes, which I could then plug into my AVID Media Compose, which would then — voila — create the identical scene in AVID. Is this just a piple dream? Or is there any way to make the two editing systems compatible?
Thanks,
Ross
Never Give Up
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3 Replies
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This is a pipe dream. There might be ways to get this to work, if you REALLY work at it, and buy a couple Automatic Duck products, and FCP Reconnect. And really work hard to get things right.
Sorry, they need to get Avid MC. Keep things simple.
Shane
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What Shane said. You can try to make this work and buy a bunch of 3rd party stuff to do it, or they can spend $1,000 on the Media Composer crossgrade offer, you can send them a drive with your media and original project, then you email bins back and forth and everything automatically relinks. Fast, easy, pretty much bulletproof (just don’t edit via AMA – it’s not bulletproof yet).
Why should you waste your time rebuilding their edit because they want to use different software? Make it easy on yourself – require they use Avid.
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Michael Hancock
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True. By the time you buy both versions of Automatic Duck needed to do this…and that would be problematic…you could buy Avid MC 5.5 for $1000.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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