• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Import project (or EDL?) from Premiere Pro

  Posted by Tore Jonssen on January 9, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  I have a client who’s done some simple editing of a project in Premiere Pro. He now wants me to go over and refine his video. What would be the easiest way to import his project into Final Cut? Thanks in advance:-)

  Tore Jonssen replied 18 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Tore Jonssen

  January 10, 2007 at 4:29 pm

  Please…?
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  Debe

  January 13, 2007 at 6:04 pm

  Tore-

  I don’t have an answer for you, but I do have a suggestion.

  You might get more of a response in the Premiere Pro forum. They know what Premeire can output. Most of us would be just guessing.

  If I were guessing, I’d look under the Export menu in Premiere and see what the options are. But I don’t even know if Premiere calls it Export….

  Find out what options Premiere has, and then come back and ask us what’s the best one for FCP.

  debe
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  Tore Jonssen

  January 13, 2007 at 6:34 pm

  Thanks for answering debe. I’ve already cross-posted in that forum as well as this, but the answers to my question haven’t been numerous…as for Premiere, it actually has EDL export, but does that mean that I can export and EDL from Premiere and then open the project (from the EDL file) in FCP without any compatibility issues…?
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  Walter Biscardi

  January 13, 2007 at 7:28 pm

  [Tore Jonssen] “it actually has EDL export, but does that mean that I can export and EDL from Premiere and then open the project (from the EDL file) in FCP without any compatibility issues…?”

  I would suggest you do what I do, just try it and see what happens. And don’t just try it once, try it multiple ways with multiple formats and see if it works. If it does, you’re golden.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Andy Trimlett

  January 31, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  Hello Tore,

  Did you ever figure out how to do this? I’m preparing to do the same thing.

  -Andy
  http://www.alternatefocus.org
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  Tore Jonssen

  January 31, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  Hi Andy!
  No, luckily I talked the client into doing the job all over again in FCP, so there was no need. So I don’t really know any more about this than when I asked the question. Sorry that I am not able to help you out here….good luck anyway:-)

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