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Apple’s official FCP7 EOL
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[Andrew Kimery] “Yeah, I keep forgetting that SG was added so long ago. I really didn’t start paying attention to it until they implemented Direct Link.”
The round trip workflow between Premiere and Speedgrade had quirks but was really a nice way to work. Press a button and your sequence appears in Speedgrade with all its full-feature grading tools at your disposal. Finish grading, save and your sequence appears in Premiere with your grading effects implemented as Lumetri color FX. Everything, including key-framed masks comes over. Super convenient, especially if you need to re-tweak your sequence. The Lumetri panel is good but it’s got a long way to go before it does everything Speedgrade could. Of course, with Resolve’s NLE getting better with every release, it may be that Resolve winds up being the best of both worlds.
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Just had a client from 7 years ago say they wanted to update and add on to an old FCP7 Project (we use Premiere Pro Now) Popped open 7 — XML out – open in Premiere — 90 percent carried over (remember Live Type….yeah that doesn’t translate) Some CC didn’t either and specialty transitions
but ..very easy otherwise.
Apple – come on – just make a widget that opens FCP7 Project and creates a universal XML – can’t be that hard — Premiere Opens them without any translation
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[Andy Field] “Apple – come on – just make a widget that opens FCP7 Project and creates a universal XML – can’t be that hard — Premiere Opens them without any translation”
Seriously? If you still need that over six years later, spending a measly 10 bucks (for a far better translation btw) is somehow asking too much?
Oh yeah, “pros”.
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– RK
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Seriously? If you still need that over six years later, spending a measly 10 bucks (for a far better translation btw) is somehow asking too much? Oh yeah, “pros”.”
I think the problem is extracting data from .fcp files without FCP7, not reading XML files.
Walter Soyka
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Seriously? If you still need that over six years later, spending a measly 10 bucks (for a far better translation btw) is somehow asking too much?”
I think you misunderstood the request. The issue is getting access into FCP projects if you don’t have FCP 7 running any longer. See this article:
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Would it be fair to say that if you were running FCP7 and had clients with projects on FCP7, you should have migrated them to X or Premiere a long time ago? I mean, you all knew this day was coming. The writing was clearly on the wall. Perhaps it’s not ‘shame on Apple’, but ‘shame on the editor who did not see this coming and migrate projects a long time ago’?
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[Scott Witthaus] “Perhaps it’s not ‘shame on Apple’, but ‘shame on the editor who did not see this coming and migrate projects a long time ago’?
“I gotta agree. FCP7 is simply ancient and so there’s no need for any company to maintain any level of support for it.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Would it be fair to say that if you were running FCP7 and had clients with projects on FCP7, you should have migrated them to X or Premiere a long time ago?”
Actually, no it’s isn’t fair to say that. The more common scenario is that a client provides you with an old project – possibly done elsewhere – that they’d like you to leverage. If you’ve abandoned FCP7 years ago, what’s the solution? Say “no”? Find a friend with FCP7? Something else?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] ” If you’ve abandoned FCP7 years ago, what’s the solution? Say “no”? Find a friend with FCP7? Something else?
“My first approach would be to attempt an xml export of the main timeline in fcp7 and then attmpt to rebuild in Premiere. I have an older mbp that still has fcp7.
An alternative to that time consuming process would be to attempt to work from a pro-res master of the project instead.
Either way it’s going to require re-constituting and re-building and so it really would depend on the client budget for dealing with such an old project.
But realistically, how relevant is a video made 5-10 years ago going to be? Most likely a client is going to want to update that project with new content so that the product they put to the world out doesn’t look old or dated.
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[greg janza] “But realistically, how relevant is a video made 5-10 years ago going to be? Most likely a client is going to want to update that project with new content so that the product they put to the world out doesn’t look old or dated.”
I’ve received FCP “legacy” projects finished within the last 2 years (still).
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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