Export FCP in which format to Premiere Pro CS4

[Sean Oneil]

[Khu Suh] “5. I convert the quicktime to AVI through After Effects CS4”

Don’t do that. Very bad. You’re re-encoding with a very lossy codec.

[Khu Suh] “Collegue import it in FCP and export to Tape”

And then you’re doing it again. Very, very bad.

[Khu Suh] “There are quite a few areas where things can be improved. The biggest being if I can somehow export my premiere pro cs4 project and just send him that which he can open in FCP. (If not possible, does a PPRO CS4 on mac and PC share the same project files)”

Projects or media? Premiere Pro CS4 on the Mac will handle Quicktime media natively. I thought it did on the PC as well. Have you even tried importing the .mov without converting?

For sharing project data, I read that Premiere CS4 can export and import Final Cut XML project files. I don’t know if that is Mac only or on both platforms.

Sean

[Khu Suh]

I imported the quicktime directly, but the timeline is red for me to render. However, it was playing back fine, so will be possible to edit it. So on paper after edit if I export to quicktime NTSC DV, there should be no quality loss.

I did some research on project data, and PPro can import Final Cut data, but can’t seem to have a user friendly export system built in.

It has EDL and OMF export, but I am completely unfamiliar on how to use those functions.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Khu,
[Khu Suh] “5. I convert the quicktime to AVI through After Effects CS4
6. Import it into Premiere Pro CS4 “
I have no idea about PP and I don’t work with PC’s, but can not you open the QT DV files in the PC if you have QT Pro? If so you can skip the QT>AVI step. One generation less for your footage.

[Khu Suh] “There are quite a few areas where things can be improved. The biggest being if I can somehow export my premiere pro cs4 project and just send him that which he can open in FCP. (If not possible, does a PPRO CS4 on mac and PC share the same project files) “
I think that PP projects can be open both in PC and MAC.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Rafael Amador]

[Khu Suh] “I imported the quicktime directly, but the timeline is red for me to render. However, it was playing back fine, so will be possible to edit it. So on paper after edit if I export to quicktime NTSC DV, there should be no quality loss.”
If you have the red line thats means that must to be rendered that means another generation for the picture.

[Khu Suh] “It has EDL and OMF export, but I am completely unfamiliar on how to use those functions.”
Try an XML. Is just a document that you need to open later in PP with the media available.
Most part of your sequence is translated to the PP sequence.
In the FC Help you have all the info.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Khu Suh]

I got QTPro and yeah now Premiere CS4 does not need a render. So two step eliminated.

I tested EDL and my colleague was able to open the project, however, two different video files were imported as one. We are still trying to figure out how to link two media files separately.

If EDL doesn’t work I will try XML export also…