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Word of caution – Premiere and FCPX sharing files
Just wanted to give a quick word of caution if you are going to try to share media between FCPX and Premiere. Luckily, I was just doing some tests, so no major damage was done.
I was using Xto7 to do some render time tests. It didn’t do a great job of translating my sequence. But that’s neither here nor there.
Then, I brought the same XML into Premiere. Premiere couldn’t open it. Note, I didn’t try sending and xml out of FCP7. I was using the one straight from Xto7, just to see how it might work.
Later, I opened FCPX and found that a bunch of the files had changed and X couldn’t re-link them. Tried manual relink, but it said that the file was changed.
I’ve seen this before with Premiere and FCP7. If you send an XML to Premiere from 7, then it will mess up all your render files in FCP7. So my guess is Premiere is messing with the metadata and FCPX doesn’t like it.
Anyway, just a word to the wise, if you choose to share FCPX files with Premiere, I would recommend copying them to another folder first.
Michael Garber
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[Michael Garber] “Later, I opened FCPX and found that a bunch of the files had changed and X couldn’t re-link them. Tried manual relink, but it said that the file was changed….
…..I’ve seen this before with Premiere and FCP7. If you send an XML to Premiere from 7, then it will mess up all your render files in FCP7. So my guess is Premiere is messing with the metadata and FCPX doesn’t like it.”Actually this happens with FCP X only if you have the XMP preferences enabled in the Adobe apps. If you intend to go back and forth, TURN OFF all Adobe app prefs that enable writing XMP metadata into the media files upon import. At the very least, this alters the modification date of the file. As a result, X now thinks it’s a completely different media file, because the parameters of the file no longer match the X database. Thus, it’s offline when you return to X.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Thanks, Oliver! Here I was thinking there was no way around it.
Does having XMP turned off mess you up in any way when using Premiere?
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company -
[Michael Garber] “Does having XMP turned off mess you up in any way when using Premiere?”
I never use their metadata XMP stuff. So for me, no.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
This same process should be used for Ae as well.
Jeremy
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Thanks again, Oliver and Jeremy. Much appreciated!
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company -
This burned me on a FCP project before…sent files to AE and then came back to FCP, and hours of renders were lost as FCP refreshed the files, so annoying!
Kevin Johnson
Autodesk Smoke Artist
FCP Editor
Washington, DC
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