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From Final cut to Protools to Final Cut
I’m thinking of purchasing protools LE (software only) and mixing on the same MAC system I use for FCP. I would then export AIF’s of the 4 channel mix back into FCP and lay back audio to tape with the final video.
I’m curious if anyone has gone this route and if I will encounter issues if I try it. Not going to an audio facility every week would save me about 5-10k a month. I would still hire a freelance protools engineer to mix the final product, but would use FCP hardware to lay back to tape.
I believe in theory this would work, but want to make sure I’m not missing anything fundamental.
Has anyone tried this?
Cheers,
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I’m lucky enough to have my mixes come to me all done, but there should be no reason whatsoever that your idea would give you any problems.
Jerry
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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Only issue would be how you monitor the ProTools session. You need a Core Audio compliant I/O. My AJA IO is not core audio compliant. Check to see if your Kona is. Otherwise, you won’t be able to monitor the audio.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.3.8 QT6.5.2
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP4.5 DVDSP 3.0.2
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG12.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.20
AJA IO driver 1.3.1 firmware v21-26
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Sweet. AJA says the Kona 2 Driver is CAC, so it looks like I’m set!
Thanks guys!
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If you want to use protools you’d need at least an mbox or one of the new m-audio boxes that support protools. If you want to import an OMF from FCP into PT, then you’d need Digidesign’s DigiTranslator or whatever they call it now.
I own this setup, but only use it when forced to. In normal usage I use Digital Performer. It doesn’t need any specific hardware to run, it will run on the built in speakers, though it will work with any core audio interface.
OMF import and export are built in and work very well, I’ve imported OMFs from FCP hundreds of times with no problem, I’ve sent OMF files to POP where they’ve imported them into their AMS Audiofile system with no problems.
If you want to play a DV quicktime movie, no problem, and you can send it out firewire and there is built in delay to keep the video and audio in sync.
For us this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are lots of ways that DP is more suited to Post than protools.
Its our opinion and we’re sticking to it.:).Thanks,
Vince Sanchez
G5 DP2.0ghz 2.5gig ram
AJA IO
OS10.3.9 QT7.01
3X250gb SATA Hitachi HD 8meg cache stripped in array
Sonnet 133mhz Sata card
OWC firewire card
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