• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting a seq

  Posted by Pedro Casais on May 29, 2009 at 2:15 pm

  I like to just export a FCP sequence without the project, only the sequence data, no media, and open it in another fcp project. Can this be done?

  best,
  PC

  Pedro Casais replied 16 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  May 29, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  You can drag a sequence from one project to another. Is that what you’re trying to do?

  All the best,

  Tom

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  Pedro Casais

  May 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm

  I’m trying to export a sequence, save it on a flash drive and go to another location/different computer and import it to another project. I like to do it without the need to carry my own project around just the sequence I need, can that be done?

  Thanks,
  PC
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  Mike Raff

  May 29, 2009 at 3:08 pm

  Hi, Pedro

  I think we’re confused by the way you’re using the word “export”. (Around here, when you say you want to export a sequence, that usually means creating a new piece of media–a QuickTime movie for example–that is a single file comprised of all the media and effects represented by your sequence).

  It sounds like what you want to do is copy your sequence to a portable device and move it to another system, without also moving all the media. Is that what you’d like to do?

  If that’s it, then the answer is that it’s possible, but not quite the way your imagine.
  Tom is correct that you can copy a sequence between projects. What you need to do, then, is to copy your project file to the flash drive, copy the project file from the flash drive to the second system, open your project and copy the sequence from your project to a project on the second system. (If all the media on your original system is on the second system, you’ll be able to play the sequence, but you may have to reconnect all the media first and, possibly, render all the files that need rendering. If the media is not on a drive attached to the second system, then your sequence will open, but you won’t see or hear anything if you try to play it).

  So, to clarify, you can copy projects to external drives, but you cannot copy sequences or bins independently of their projects. Fortunately, the project files are relatively small. It’s the media files that are large.

  I hope that helps.

  Mike Raff
  Richmond, VA
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  Pedro Casais

  May 29, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  Thanks Mike and Tom, you did answer my question.

  Best,
  PC
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  Arnie Schlissel

  May 30, 2009 at 2:36 am

  [pedro casais] “I’m trying to export a sequence, save it on a flash drive and go to another location/different computer and import it to another project. I like to do it without the need to carry my own project around just the sequence I need, can that be done?”

  You can export an XML of a sequence or of your whole project & import that into the other computer. File>Export>XML

  your FCP manual can fill in the details.

  Arnie
  Post production is not an afterthought!
  https://www.arniepix.com/
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  Pedro Casais

  May 30, 2009 at 5:22 am

  thanks Arnie and the rest of the team.

  best,
  Pc

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