From Avid to FCP

[Walter Biscardi]

Do a search on this forum. http://www.automaticduck.com has been recommended dozens of time for this very process.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[David Battistella]

Automatic duck.

It is expensive and worth it.

you can also try XML.

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[David Battistella]

walt,

you beat me by six seconds on that last post.

geez.

david

Peace and Love 🙂

[Walter Biscardi]

[David Battistella] “walt,

you beat me by six seconds on that last post.”

sorry man, I was just looking and I saw it. Next time I’ll count to 10 before I answer something. 🙂

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[John Steventon]

I was tearing my hair out using EDL’s from my MC v11 – until I was shown the light by the nice people on here about Automatic Duck. You’re looking for Pro Import FCP.

Strangely, part of this varies for me sometimes, but the safest workflow is:

1) Edit with Avid (duh)
2) Duplicate your sequence into a new bin
3) Decompose the sequence (whatever handles you choose, and click on Imported clips if you want to seperate them too)
4) (I mark an in and out on the sequence with all tracks selected as a point of anality here, but I don’t think there’s a need)
5) Export an OMF version 2 – check the settings to be sure that ‘Link to current media’ is selected for both Audio and Video (and that the checkbox to export Audio and video is checked too of course) There isn’t any media to link to – but that’s ok.
6) Transfer the OMF file (it should only be a few Mb) to your FCP system, then using Automatic Duck Pro Import – (it’s in the Import menu once you install it), locate the OMF, and import it.

You’ll get a sequence and a bin – just re-conform the bin clips, and you’re set.

The option on this is to make anothe OMF from Avid from your original sequence that JUST has the Audio – and embed that so you dont need to recapture all the audio again – but it’s probably easier, safer, – and time allowing, better to just take it all in through FCP.

Hope this helped – like I said, it REALLY opened my eyes to how it should be done. All the dissolves, motion effects, basic titles, basic resize effects etc were all included – and made onlining SOOOO much easier (though don’t tell the boss that “-)

Oh, one last thing – be sure to order the FCP version, not the AE version like I did at first… DOH!

J

John Steventon – Author of DJing for Dummies

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