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  • can you email a bin?

    Posted by Paul01 on May 2, 2005 at 9:20 pm

    can i email a bin to somebody?
    i am helping out an editor and we are each working from our homes. instead driving back and forth can’t we just email a bin? and if i have fcp xpress will she be able open the bin in fcp 4.5? i used to do that with avid all the time.
    hope somebody can show it to me. i am in the middle of my first fcp gig – i thought the transition from avid would be easier…
    thanks in advance for your help!

    Bret Williams replied 21 years ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Digihead

    May 2, 2005 at 9:46 pm

    You can email the whole Final Cut Project file, or if you like create a new Project file and drag the bin you want to send into it. Save it and then email it. It’s as easy as that.

  • Bret Williams

    May 2, 2005 at 11:32 pm

    I was under the impression that FCP doesn’t do timecode. So how does this help?

  • Bret Williams

    May 2, 2005 at 11:33 pm

    I was under the impression that FCP xpress doesn’t do timecode. So how does this help?

  • Bret Williams

    May 2, 2005 at 11:33 pm

    I meant fcp xpress. Doh!

  • Paul01

    May 3, 2005 at 4:36 am

    tried to email project, the reciever couldn’t open it, it said wrong type file…
    so annoying…
    it is about 240 mb, i don’t know.

  • Mark Raudonis

    May 3, 2005 at 6:49 am

    Try compressing the file using stuffit. For some reason this process “protects” the file in transit and proves to be more reliable.

    Mark

  • Martti Ekstrand

    May 3, 2005 at 1:29 pm

    You don’t have to use StuffIt – just ctrl-click (or right-click) the file in Finder and choose ‘Create Archive of …’ and a .zip file is made. StuffIt is not working that well in OSX and StuffItExpander isn’t even included with Tiger.

    cheers

  • Bret Williams

    May 3, 2005 at 4:29 pm

    Another option. Maybe too simple. Export the bin as a batch list. Then email that. Then on the other end, create a new bin and import the batch list.

    However, still begs the question – does FCP Express support timecode? If it doesn’t then it obviously wouldn’t support batch lists either.

    But this method works great for FCP Pro to FCP Pro.

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