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file formats b/n FCT and Premiere
I’m new on this forum–hope this is the place to get help with this:
I work in Final Cut Pro but have a client who owns Premiere. Client wants me to film and edit their promotional video and then provide them with all video clips captured during production for their future use. Client will also provide their archival video captured in .avi clips for use in building the project.
I have tried placing their .avi files onto the FCP timeline, and though it warns that this is not the optimal format to work in, I can see no significant loss of quality. I have not experimented yet with how video files captured in FCP will transfer to Premiere.
Two questions:
1.) What’s the best way to work with .avi files in FCP? Conversion process? Just use the original file?
2.) And vice versa, for placing all files in a format that the client can use in Premiere later on, should I convert my media? How?
many thanks,
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4 Replies
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What do you mean, Final Cut Tudio is awesome!
In all seriousness, it’s not advisable to mix different formats of different NLEs. They all work differently with different media types and capturing into the NLEs favorite format is best especially when working multi-platform.
Perhaps when you are finished you can export an EDL (if Premiere accepts EDLs) and then your client can then recapture on their end. This might get a little easier once Premiere for the mac is released, but then your client would need a mac.
Client should also provide you with an EDL of their archival stuff to recapture in Final Cut Tudio so you won’t have to render every time you change something on the those clips.
make sense?
Jeremy
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A couple of considerations. FCP will capture as QT media and generally doesn’t add the .mov extension. If you are capturing in a codec that is available via QT on the client’s PC, then Premiere Pro should be able to import them, if it recognizes the file type and codec. This might require manually adding a .mov extension to the end of each captured file.
Secondly, in the summer, Adobe will release CS3 Production Premium for Mac and PC, which includes Premiere Pro CS3. If you can wait, you might have better success capturing on PPro Mac for PPro PC. However, the same media considerations will still apply, since the PC versions will be optimized for AVI and the Mac versions for QT.
That assumes you you’d want to purchase this software.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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that is a big help. I’ll start experimenting with how well my Final Cut video (QT format) loads up in a Premiere timeline for my client.
I’m still curious, though, if there are any suggestions for how to convert a large quantity of captured video clips from an Apple optimized format (QT) to a PC optimized format (.avi), if this is possible.
again, thanks for the help. -Chris
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