Best way to export Premiere 6.5 EDL to FCP 5.1

[Jerry Hofmann]

https://www.automaticduck.com sells software that will do exactly what you want… CMX lists can have only 2 tracks of video and 4 tracks of audio at the same time, so you need to export separate EDL’s containing no more than these each, then remarry them in FCP without Automatic Duck in your arsenal. And if you have graphic files involved, there’s all sorts of gotchas that will crop up with CMX technology… it’s really old and just isn’t the best way to go here…Also CMX lists with any error in them whatsoever will not import into FCP, so there’s a lot of gotchas there too.

Jerry

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks for the information, Jerry.

I checked out the http://www.automaticduck.com website, and their software tools seem to specifically work with Premiere “Pro,” and not Premiere 6.5

Perhaps the best solution is to try to reduce my timeline to 2 video and 4 audio tracks.

I appreciate other suggestions,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

I wonder which of these other EDL formats (which Premiere 6.5 can generate) would import best into FCP 5.1? Do any of these retain more than 2 video and 4 audio tracks?

Generic EDL
Grass Valley EDL
CMX 3400
CMX 3600
Sony BVE 5000
Sony BVE 9000
Sony BVE 9100

At the moment, I have 5 video tracks (including the track 1 A and B), and 5 audio tracks.

Thanks for your help,

Khashyar

[Jerry Hofmann]

The Sony 9100 or CMX 3600 work much the same Don’t think any EDL can deal with more than 2 tracks of video… I’d send an edl over to the FCP bay before the booking too to make sure all’s well.

Jerry

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thanks, Jerry.

I actually am going to import the EDL to a new FCP suite that I purchased, so I can do testing myself to make sure that it will go smoothly.

I will go over my timeline in Premiere and try to reduce the video tracks to 2, and audio to 4.

By the way, if I need to batch digitize from 2 different decks (a DV and BataSP via a Kona LHe), can the FCP Batch digitizing command handle that?

Thanks again for your ideas and feedback,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

I am assuming that since I cannot export the premiere Title files to FCP, I could just delete the track that contains the titles in Premiere, as a step to reducing my total video track number to 2.

Am I correct in deducing that I cannot import the title files from Premiere 6.5 to FCP?

Khashyar

[Jerry Hofmann]

Yes, good idea… the premiere titles won’t come forward in an EDL at all.

Jerry

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you, Jerry.

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hi Jerry…

One more question that I hope you can answer:

When FCP looks for 2 video tracks, does the EDL consider the “Video 1A” and “Video 1B” tracks as two seperate tracks, or… does the EDL that is going to be imported into FCP consider “Video 1” and “Video 2” as the two distinct tracks.

In Premiere 6.5, the Video “1A” and “1B” are handled as seperate tracks, with different video being able to be placed in each of those layers of the “Track 1”.

I am trying to understand whether I can keep my two separate tracks on the “Video 1A” and “Video 1B” tracks, or whether it is best to keep video ONLY on “Video 1A” and “video 2”

Thank you again for your help,

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Unfortunately, FCP tells me that it cannot read the EDL that I exported with Premiere 6.5… It gives me an error message after I open the Premiere-generated EDL in FCP.

I may need to reconstruct the film by hand, after I hand create all of the clips in a batch list in Ms Excel.

This is much more difficult and time-consuming that I had planned.

Khashyar