Batching on PC to FCP?

[Ben Insler]

I’ve done this from Premiere to FCP before. You kind of need to work around the differneces between the software, but once you do it works fine. I’ll see if I remember it, and I’ll check my PC to confirm when I get home if this method doesn’t work for you as is. KEEP IN MIND though that you can only log footage if you want to go from one to another. Do not try to capture at home on Premiere/Avid and then bring your footage to FCP – you will regret the day you decided to try it. Here goes…

– Log footage like you normally would in premiere.
– Once you’re finished, Hide all the bin columns except name (don’t think you can hide this one), media start, media end, reel.
– Export a batch list from Premiere.
– Open the exported batch list in excel.
– Change the names of each column on the batch list to conform to FCP standards (you may want to export a batch list from FCP as well to confirm the names of each column – if the names are wrong, FCP will not import the column…or possibly the whole batch)
– Save the file in excel (just save/overwrite, not save as)
– Take your batch list to your mac, click on your project tab in the brower window of FCP and then select File::Import::Batch List.

That should do it for you. If it doesn’t work, post a response and I’ll check it out for ya.

Good Luck,

Ben

[Austin Ray]

Hi!

Thanks for letting me know how to import the batch-list from Premiere! But what should I export the batch-list as? What is the function called?

And what I also was wondering is if it’s possible to do the batch in Premiere, then export a batchlist and relink the clips? Both premiere and FCP write clips in DV?

[Ben Insler]

I’ll check the premiere functions for exporting the batch list (I think it’s “export bacth list,” but not positive) when I get home later and post here.

However, the answer to your question re: batch capturing on PC and then taking the footage to FCP is no. They both use DV, but Apple uses quicktime to handle video, while PCs use avi to handle video (and avid uses its own codec). So, footage from one will not edit natively on another. You need to caputre on the same type of system that you’ll be editing on (so if you’re editing in FCP, capture on an apple, etc)

-Ben

[Andreas Karoliussen]

Hi,
If if you are just logging , no digitizing, i can also recommend sebskytools converting avids ALE files to finalcuts batch list.
(Because then you altso get Log notes…)
Log in avid,
remember to show media start, end , reel , log note and if there is other essential info for you.
choose export as ALE.
download Sebskeytools on your mac, and convert the file to fcp batch list…

just a tip;-)
Andreas