FCP to Premire

[Dennis Radeke]

Yes, there is a way to move from FCP to Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro CS4 has a Final Cut Pro Importer. All you do is export your project as XML and then import it into Premiere Pro. It way more than an EDL but not everything will come acrosss. Things like PIPs and transform properties will for the most part come across, but things like weird transitions will not.

Check out this link for an overview: https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/11/new_cs4_and_final_cut_import.html#more

[Marc Daniel villarin]

Unfortunately I don’t have the luxary of a cs4 on my workstation. I use cs3. But there is a feature like that in cs4, Then my definately buy a copy in the near future.

Many thanks to you Dennis

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Look on the Bright Side…

[Zane Barker]

A bigger issue may be the codec that the video is in. Some of FCP’s codecs are only avalible with FCP. So there is a chance the video files may not play on a machine that does not have FCP.

What format of video is it?

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Dennis Radeke]

Hi Zane,

While FCP does employ ProRes for much of it’s overall workflow, Premiere Pro can read any and all of those files. Premiere can pretty much read any codec that is available on a Mac system including ProRes. I’ve got a demo coming up where I show 16 codecs all on the same timeline. This includes native AVCHD, XDCAMEX, P2, ProRes, RED R3D files, and several more.

[Zane Barker]

[Dennis Radeke] “While FCP does employ ProRes for much of it’s overall workflow, Premiere Pro can read any and all of those files”

Unfortunately ProRes is NOT used by all editors, I’m actually willing to bet that most people using FCP are not taking advantage of it.

[Dennis Radeke] “Premiere can pretty much read any codec that is available on a Mac system”

There are actually some vary popular codecs used by FCP that Premiere cannot read. DVCProHD, Apple Intermediate Codec, and the codec that Apple uses for native HDV for example ONLY come with FCP, and are NOT available for windows.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Dennis Radeke]

Zane,

You would probably know better than I, but I will say that ProRes among other codecs has been bundled into later versions of QT. To that end, I took Apple DVCProHD (as ProRes) and Apple HDV and several other codecs on a single timeline on Mac. It played fine. Then I took the hard drive over to an XP system and opened up the project. I played every clip with no problem.

[David Keslick]

FYI, for dvcprohd on windows you just need DVFilm Raylight Decoder. It will allow you to work with dvcpro50 & dvcprohd on a windows platform.

Hope this is helpful,

Dave Keslick
DVFilm.com