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From Avid to FCP
Hello,
i have never used avid, but have just received 4 hard drives full of footage which was edited on Avid. I have only Final cut Pro which uses Quicktime, could you tell me whether I will be able to play the footage and use it on FCP or not? And if not… what do i need to do?
Thank you soo much for your help
Jasmine
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13 Replies
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Can you just take a look at the files on the harddrives and see what they are? They just might be QT files and then you’d just import them into your FCP project.
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Thank you,
I have tried, this time with another file and it works, however it recommends me to copy the file? For quality purpouses? because apparently it is not set for FCP. In any case it works and they are QT
Merci
Jasmine
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Not to familiar with Avid and what does or doesn’t do to QT files, maybe someone else can chime in. You may want to look at the properties of the QT files and see if that can shed some light on the situation.
You could also copy one of the files and compare it to one that wasn’t saved.
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[boydmcc] “Not to familiar with Avid and what does or doesn’t do to QT files, maybe someone else can chime in. You may want to look at the properties of the QT files and see if that can shed some light on the situation.”
Avid does have a proprietary Quicktime codec I believe called Meridian or something like that. Would be difficult to work with the material without that codec on your system. I have no idea if you can get it from the Avid site.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Why not recpature from EDL’s using automatic Duck?
If the AVID session was DV then you might be able to batch rename the files so that they have an extension like .mov. This would work if it is DV footage. if you are talking about one of the AVID compressed codecs then you will not be able to use the media unless it is transcoded, or you put a new wrapper on it.
AVID uses proprietary encoding that does not work anywhere on planet earth except in AVID land.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Avid codecs are free to download and use.
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You can not capture with Avid Codecs in FCP. Actually, FCP will not load with the AVID codecs in the Quicktime Folder.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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I’m not surprised Avid has a proprietary codec. I’m curious though – at what point does it get applied and how? Is it during capture from your deck, when it gets imported for use with Avid, or on output? Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Boyd
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It has to do with the QT wrapper it put son the file and the relationship to the MOB file that AVID creates when teh media is captured. The file is basically photo -jpeg compression (which to me is no longer a nessesary compression since the DV codecs and massive hard drive space came on the scene)
This is a huge advantage in AVID as the media management is very tight. SO tight that once the media is in AVID you need to export new media to work with it in AE for example, whereas in FCP at it’s QT based file structure you can just go to the root hard drive and work with it from there.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Exactly… basically Final Cut rules…
just kidding and actually do not like having a mono-corporate knowledge
in any case thank you very much it was all very helpfull 😉
Jasmine
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