AVID to FCP Migration

[Sean Oneil]

Google “Automatic Duck”

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

You require the Avid editor to export an OMF or AAF of the project.

You require the purchase of Automatic Duck Pro Importer to open that project in FCP.

As for a codec that will work in FCP, I don’t know of one that works reliably, if at all. Whenever we bring in an Avid project, we re-capture all media on our systems since we’re usually doing the finish conform.

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Biscardi Creative Media
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[John Pale]

[Anand Kamalakar] “I need to move all the bin information and be able to reference the digitized AVID media. The project was created on AVID EXPRESS PRO, the newest version”

You can’t do this, even with Automatic Duck. Automatic Duck is for interchange of sequences.
There really is no workflow for total project migrations, since the two systems work completely differently and Avid is not a Quicktime based editor, as FCP is.

[Jon Smitherton]

try this

https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/

does bins and is FREE!

Jon

[John Pale]

The author ceased support for Sebsky Tools more than a year ago and it no longer works reliably on the current OS, but it may still function for some.

Worth a try, i guess.

[Bob Roberts]

Here’s an article about the other direction, but maybe it can provide some useful information:

https://www.buttonpusher.tv/how-to-get-final-cut-pro-clips-bins-to-avid-mc/

[Misha Aranyshev]

FCP reads ALE. It is under Import>Cinema Tools Telecine Log. That will get your Avid bins into FCP. You will have to recapture all the media. You can transfer sequences via Automatic Duck or EDL but it won’t reconnect to the media. You will have to manually replace all the clips on the timeline. In short you better finish this project in Avid.

[Dylan Reeve]

Automatic Duck moves sequences.

You can use the ALE option to get bins in, or (and this is just me thinking, I haven’t tried it) take all clips in Avid bin, create a new sequence and dump all clips into that sequence. Export that sequence through Automatic Duck into FCP – the clips that built the sequence will be created, so you’ll have them that way.

Reading the media is going to be a problem. You can install the Avid codecs on your Mac, and they do work in FCP (although no reliably I hear) – but you will have to relink your media manually and it probably isn’t easy.