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export video from FCP for use in Premiere 2.0 or CS4
Hello all, I’ve looked for an answer to this question on the forum and haven’t found a solid answer yet so hear goes.
I use Premiere 2.0 (and CS4) on a PC. My friend uses FCP.
I’m about to take over the job of editing her timeline (footage was shot in HD) and for a variety of reasons I wont go into here, the way we are going to do it is for her to export the footage as one big clip off her timeline and I will import it into Premiere.
I would like her files with minimal loss of quality, if possible, none. The question is this: what codec should she use to export from FCP? She is working with hdv3 files (.mov) and I’ve heard that there is no codec for this for the PC. Hopefully this is just a case of using a different container file…
Over to you guys….
(I’m going to post this on the premiere forum too!)
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[John Kis] “the way we are going to do it is for her to export the footage as one big clip off her timeline and I will import it into Premiere.”
Not a vary productive way to do it. With doing it that way you might as well start over from scratch.
As I see it you have 2 options.
1. Come to the light and use FCP to finish the project.
2. Use media manager in FCP to convert all the captured material to ProRes, export a xml file from FCP. Then install the ProRes codec for windows on your machine, and continue corking on the project in its current state using Premiere.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Hi Zane, thanks for the tip.
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CS4 has a FCP importer and chances are, if the footage is SD, you do not even need to convert to Prores to edit it. Regardless, export an XML file from FCP and open it in Premiere Pro and you should be good to go.
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Thanks Dennis. Unfortunately the footage is in HD.
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There are a couple QuickTime wrapped files that do not go to the PC side… I assume because of some sort of licensing limitations.
The QuickTime-wrapped HDV file is one of them.
If you exported to ProRes, you’d likely not lose any significant quality. The PC version of the ProRes codec is in newer versions of QT anyway…
I’ve edited QT ProRes on a PC in CS4…it works fine.
TimK,
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[John Kis] “I’m experimenting with VLC at the moment – it seems to have the functionality to export”
VLC has horrible exporting/converting capabilities from what I have seen.
Using media manager in FCP to covert all the materiel from the project is the easiest way to convert it.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
I’ve discovered 2 programs which can play the .mov hd3 files on a pc – mplayer, and VLC. I’m experimenting with VLC at the moment – it seems to have the functionality to export to a variety of different containers/compression types. Hopefully I have some luck with this – otherwise the ProRes solution is looking likely. Thanks.
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Thanks Zane. Yes, I’m quickly discovering that VLCs export capability leaves a lot to be desired.
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