Avid and FCP living together!

[Gary Hazen]

FCP can be used with Avid Unity sytems (5.1 and above) It doesn’t require any special third party program. Depending on the Unity configuration you might need to install a fiber channel card in the Mac and some Unity software to access the workspaces.

https://www.avid.com/unity-approved/

[Hugh Haynie]

thanks! now is there a a way they can share media digitized by the FCP system? for me this would ceate the ultimate offline on FCP, online in Media Composer situation.

-Hugh

[Shane Ross]

[Hugh Haynie] “now is there a a way they can share media digitized by the FCP system?”

Yes, but you have to capture all the footage with the Avid. Then use Automatic Duck, or MXF4Mac to make the footage usable in FCP. But if you are offlining and onlining, then you don’t need to SHARE media…you recapture. But I figure that the best thing to do is offline on Avid, online on FCP (and Color). And for that, Automatic Duck works great.

If you captured media with FCP, then you’d have to import and transcode in the Avid.

Shane

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[Hugh Haynie]

Thanks Shane!

-Hugh

[Job Ter burg]

You might be thinking of this product that was featured at the IBC 2009:
https://www.dynamicdrivepool.com/avidfcp.htm