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FCP 3-Way Color Corrector In Premier VIa XML
Editing a project in FCP 7 and we now need a Blu-Ray Disc. I’ve exported the XML from FCP and opened it in Premiere CS 5. Everything seems to work except the 3-way color Corrector isn’t even close, my footage is blown out. Does the 3-way Color Corrector not translate in the XML or is there something else I’m missing? I know I could re-color everything but I’m hoping there is another work around. I’ve never really used Premiere before but Steve Jobs is forcing me to learn. The footage is ProRes (LT) 1080i. I’ve posted this in the Premiere form, but thought I’d try this one as well.
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Thanks for the response Dave, and I’m very aware of the software developers are not the best of friends. The last month of trying to make BR Discs has made this painfully obvious. But, when I’m in Premiere the 3way shows up in the “Effects control” pane, with adjustments already made but with some weird numbers that don’t match FCP. Premiere’s manual says it will take them.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSd9957a95a81082eb28f05af5126718c47be-8000.htm
Just trying to find out if the right way is to Color Correct in FCP and find a work around in XML or to do it in Premiere which would be a PITA.
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The link was from their manual and has a conversion sheet telling you what FCP Effects turn into once in Premiere, like Dip To Color is changed to Dip to Black. Just got a response from a Premiere guy who said CS5.5 is much better at this. May have to see If I can find a buddy who has upgraded.
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Unless you are also re-editing in Premiere, why bother with XML?
Just export a QuickTime of your timeline (with your corrections “baked” in ) and import that into Adobe Media Encoder/Encore to do your Bluray authoring.
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Yeah, I get ya there. I’ll hold my FCPX screaming til this fall and see how many of the Apple promises come true once the are selling a product and not a beta. Just noticed you’re in Iowa, I grew up north of Pella.
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You can download a fully functional 5.5 version which is much better. But a warning to all you “switchers” – the color tools is PPro, especially their 3-way and Fast correctors, are horrible and easily the worst of any NLE out there. If you’re really gonna try to do pro work in PPro you’ll want Colorista II and Looks 2 and forget about the Adobe stuff.
Lance Bachelder
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Really John, that’s the easy way out. Just kidding, our issue is work flow. Any given week we may produce over 50 finished DVD (1-2 Hours each) since we are an event production company. I’d really would like to not have to export out of FCP and take those files into Premiere. I understand that method would work, but that would effectively double our file size on the raid. I know it may come to that though. Ideally, I’d like to leave Premiere out of it all together and encode H.264 for BR in Compressor and use those files in Encore, but we are have tons of Chapter Marker issues with that method.
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That sounds cool about opening the project in Premiere, but not sure that will fix my Color Corrector Issue.
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You could export a ref file. Or start using a color corrector that is compatible with both systems.
Ymmv, though.
Jeremy
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I am no expert in PPro, but I just imported an XML into 5.5 and the color correction was screwed up.
Your mileage may vary.
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I’ve never been a fan of Ref files, but if I have a 3way CC on all the clips, won’t that create file the same size as a non-Ref file?
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