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Capture in Final Cut – Edit on Premier– Can it be done???
Is there a way to import and use files captured on a MAC in Final Cut Pro into a PC using Premiere?
I shot a music video on the Panasonic SDX-900 (DVC Pro, 50mb/s, 16×9) My friend captured it on his MAC using Final Cut Pro (because he has the DVC Pro Deck)into a brand new external hard drive as a copy for me to have and add to my DP reel. I have a PC and use Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. When I open the hard drive on my PC I see the files but they do not have usual file extensions like .mov. Premiere will not let me open the unknown files. I attempted to add the .mov file extension to one file by renaming it and imported it. Adobe conformed the file but it is nothing but white video.
Is there a way to import files captured/created in Final Cut on a MAC into a PC using Premiere through an external hard drive?
Tom Ciciura
Director / Cinematographer
The Prairie Soul Company
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There are possibly EDL options if both workstations were
wired up to a server, possibly, but you’re asking for the
moon on a stick with this one. It’s a codec catastrophy.
Aside from individually exporting each FCP file as MOV or
AVI, you’re probably going to have to wait a year or so
until the whole Intel/Mac/Premiere back on the Mac issues
have settled down and Adobe and Apple start working more
closely again.Darren.
myspace.com/xgfmedia
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Adobe and Apple have never stopped playing nice. The problem has more to do with crossing platforms. And, as far as I can tell, with FCP, which doesn’t play especially nicely with anyone on any platform. That is, Apple the company and Apple the company that develops FCP aren’t all that closely related.
The only way I’ve seen this done successfully is with Automatic Duck’s PPro Importer. Send the XML files for a sequence out of FCP, then recapture in PPro. The good news is that a significant part of your project — most layers/effects/speed changes/keyframes. In that sense, miles and miles ahead of an EDL. But you will have to recapture in PPro.
Worth noting: the workflow that PPro Importer is designed to support is OFFLINE in FCP, FINISH in PPro. I think this is about right, don’t you? 🙂
tw
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I’m not the authority here, but you are able to export captured mov clips and save them as avi. I don’t see (subjectively anyway) notable quality loss.
I use FCP with Motion and LiveType to turn out announcements, which are then output to an avi file and sent to a projector directly from the hard drive of a PC. In that application, I don’t notice loss but I’m not using it for broadcast or sale, and have never evaluated the process in that light.
But it’s possible. Whether it’s a time saver or waster, I really don’t know. It’s likely though that it wouldn’t save you a whole bunch of time. The only exception to this is if you were able to string a bunch of clips on a timeline (less than ten minutes long in each batch) and export the timeline to a single avi file. If you let the Mac do this in the background, it could save a fair amount of time I suppose.
Anyway… my thoughts.
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