Can’t import FCP XML into Premiere 4.0.1

[Jonas Bendsen]

Exactly the same problem we’re having. The machines with FCP 7 installed won’t export an XML that can be imported into Premiere. Our assistant editor is actually having to export the XML’s from FCP 7, import them into FCP 6 on an older machine, and then export from there, so we can import into Premiere.

Anyone with an idea of why this might be happening please post.

My only theory is that Final Cut actually made the change on purpose because they don’t want you leaving their domain to work in Premiere. ;-o

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[Cee Marsden]

hi. i’ve been having the same problem since upgrading to SL & FCP 7.

two possible workarounds:

1) export the xml interchange format 4 from FCP 7. that has worked but not consistently.

2) if you’ve preserved your version of FCP 6, open the exported FCP 7 xml sequence in FCP 6, then reexport the sequence to xml interchange 4, then import into PR, then save PR project and import to AE. a pain, but it does seem to work.

[Jonas Bendsen]

We tried simply exporting using format 4 from FCP 7, but it didn’t work. Had to go back to FCP 6.

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[Auke Kruithof]

I just had the same.

It finally worked by exporting the XML from FCP 7
– copy it to another mac running FCP 6
– opening the XML there
– exporting it again (to xml4)
– copy it back to the mac running Premiere Pro 4.01.

The only thing is I had to relink all the (Red) footage, which takes a lot of time, is there a workaround for this ?

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[Jonas Bendsen]

I have had mild success with editing the XML or .pproj (also XML) file in either a text program, or an XML editor like Adobe Dreamweaver.

You can do a “search/replace” to change all “.mov” references to “.r3d” files, and thus Premiere will auto-find most of the files (as opposed to having to re-associate every single file).

If you try this method, BACK UP YOUR ORIGINAL. It’s easy to mess up a project/xml file doing this.

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