FCP User now defecting to PP5

[Bill Kelly]

I’d recommend Walter Biscardi’s tutorial that he just recorded about bringing old fcp projects into PPro.

https://vimeo.com/25506555

I tried doing it but ran into an issue. Exported the XML from Final Cut and imported into PPro. I kept getting the following message:

This project contained a sequence that could not be opened. No sequence preview preset file or codec could be associated with this sequence type.

After a couple of attempts of doing different things, I finally changed the sequence in my fcp project to DVCPRO HD, saved, exported the XML and PPro imported it correctly.
Then I undid changing the sequence settings back in Final Cut and saved, so my FCP project remains essentially unchanged. My original sequence had been HDV, and I also tried it as a ProRes sequence and that didn’t work either.

As a note I was exporting from FCP 6.06 using XML Version 4 going into PPro 5.03. Since I would be editing in PPro with a DVCPRO HD sequence anyway, I figured why not change it beforehand and that seems to have worked.

That box with the Mercury Playback engine is unselectable for me as well. I’m split between thinking it’s working but the only option available so it can’t be changed, or it just isn’t applicable to my system.

[Chris Knight]

When it’s greyed out like that, Mercury Engine is working in software only mode (so, there’s no need to worry – it’s working). You’ll need an nVidia graphics card with at least 1GB of RAM to enable hardware acceleration (at which point, that pull-down menu becomes active).

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Another thing is that the card must support CUDA, be fast enough for GPU accel (GTX285 or faster), and either be supported by Adobe for it, or you would need to a do a little “hack” to enable it for GPU accel.

I.e. not every NVidia card will work.

Alex (DV411)

[Eric Sanders]

Hi there,

This is what I use:
https://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_fx_4800_for_mac_us.html

Very nice board, works on mac and win, so you can bootcamp into windows 7 x64 on the same rig. Read the limitations though, I seem to recall you have to be on Rev 3 or 4 or higher of the Pro Tower hardware.

Hope this helps!
-EricS