• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCE4 to FCP7

  Posted by Charles Fasano on February 4, 2011 at 10:56 pm

  Aloha to All:
  I’ve been editing a film in FCE4 in the HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60.
  I’ve now finally just purchased Final Cut Studio 3 for mostly the smooth cam features and DVD Studio Pro.
  Are there any considerations I need to take into account in this upgrade. Should I now convert the editing process to ProRes? and how seemless is the conversion from my previous codec? Would it be best to complete the film using the old codec?

  Any and all information would be useful in this upgrade.

  Do know I do not plan to work in FCE4 again since I cannot go from FCP back to FCE.

  Mahalos for all your advice!

  Tom Wolsky replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  February 5, 2011 at 1:46 am

  It depends how far into the process you are. If you’ve already edited then I’m stick with AIC. Also depends what you need to do, if there’s a lot of graphics or compositing them it might be worth converting.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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  Charles Fasano

  February 7, 2011 at 7:50 pm

  Thank you Tom:
  I always enjoy your insight and am flattered that you answered my question.
  The film is 95% complete All that is left is to polish it with the smooth cam filter, reason for buying fcp7, and to create the dvd, reason for buying DVD Studio Pro.
  I have very elementary graphics in the film, using only LiveType that came with the FCE, so I guess I’ll just keep it in AIC 1080i60.
  If you’d like to have a look at the trailer, it literally has all the graphics used in the entire film:
  https://www.fasanounderwater.com/Fasano_Underwater_Productions/HUOPage.html
  Please know that I am a marine biologist first and a film maker 2nd, so please excuse the elementary production.

  Also, I will be editing a different movie using footage that I currently have due out this fall. I will be using some footage from this current film in the next film, though not much, about 10% of the next film will have footage from this one. Should I edit the next film in ProRes and how easy is it to do the conversion?

  Thanks again…ALOHA!
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  Tom Wolsky

  February 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm

  What I’d suggest would be to recapture that 10% of footage that you need in FCP using the ProRes setting. Unless you need to go back to tape, then I’d suggest recapturing using the native HDV codec.

  Very pretty video.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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  Charles Fasano

  February 10, 2011 at 2:05 am

  Thanks again for your advise Tom.

  So I installed FC Studio 3 (I only needed FCP7, DVD Studio, Color and Compressor) and I noticed that FCP7 was listed as an upgrade and not an install as the other components where.
  Does this mean FCE upgraded to FCP7? Should I delete (uninstall) FCE from my computer or does FCP7 need it?

  Aloha
  Charlie
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  Tom Wolsky

  February 10, 2011 at 8:29 am

  FCE is not effected up the FCP upgrade. You don’t need to uninstall it if you don’t want to.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

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