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Premiere to FCP
I need to take over a job that was done in Premiere. I assume that the only way to do this by exporting an EDL from Premiere.
Being a newbie at using an imported EDL, I am wondering if there is anything I need to take into consideration?
An basic help/ideas would be appreciated.
Chris
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EDL is a 30ish year old technology designed for tape to tape linear edit systems, so it doesn’t work like a modern, multi-layer NLE.
In order to use an EDL successfully, you’ll need to reduce all or most of your video to 1 track. If you need additional tracks, you’ll have to paste those into new sequences & export those separately.
Also, most transitions will not translate to an EDL. In many cases, they’ll show up as a simple dissolve or wipe. And most filters won’t translate, although they may be noted in the comments.
Arnie
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hey Chris, this is what I did to go from Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to FCP 6.0.2
It took me about a two week or so but it can be done. My project was edited on a PC with CS2 PPro and eventually had it transferred over to an Intel Mac that has CS3 Adobe PPro and FCP…
1st: Save PPro project in the latest Adobe PPro in CS3…if you don’t have it on your PC, you can download a 30day version for free and reconnect all media. (My project was done w/ PPro 2.0)
2nd: In FCP go to easy setup and click on correct setting for format you shot, e.g. 24p, 24pn, 30, 60, SD…also go into your FCP TIMELINE and make sure you have the same video and audio tracks that match in PPro…
3rd: In FCP set your scratch disk settings to find your “capture scratch” folder and “drag and drop” all of your media the same way it is on your PC
4th: Have your raw clips and your PPro proj on a external HD and firewire your media into your new FCP “capture scratch” folder…
Now what I did was open the project and it will ask you that it will open it with FCP…you might have to reconnect but that should do it…I did this about 2 months ago and after 2weeks reconnecting a 30min short I was spent…but well worth it to edit in FCP, good luck.
Roberto Lopez
If you have an Intel Mac, your PPro project has to be saved as a Pro project in CS3
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Hello Roberto! It’s been a while since you posted about getting your Premiere Pro project to work in Final Cut Pro but I was trying to do as you had written in here but couldn’t get it to work. It’s the end of it #4 that seems to be off. Something seems to be missing. I tried going the EDL way but that didn’t really work. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out as I have a project that I would love to get into Final Cut.
Adam
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