How best to use old media in FCPX

[Tom Wolsky]

FCPX will work with either DV or HDV media. Render files are useless to it.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Craig Alan]

what about prores 422 files or any flavor of QT?

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[Tom Wolsky]

ProRes is what FCPX works natively. QuickTime doesn’t mean anything. You’l have to specify exactly what codec you’re talking about. Most likely it will work, but FCPX is not QuickTime based.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Craig Alan]

Sorry Tom. Let me ask this in a different way. My work flow over the last year or so in FCP 6 and 7 is to either capture HDV footage in FCP as prores 422 or use a Ki Pro to create a Prores file and then import that into FCP. When I am done, I usually export the timeline as a self-contained QT movie (original settings). So I have exports of all my projects on an external drive as self-contained QT movies. I gather those cannot be used in FCP X? So if I reopen a project in FCP 6 or 7 I have a prores 422 timeline. What should I export this as so that FCP X can use the media as a single clip? Or better, I read here:

https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2011/06/what-are-the-answers-to-the-unanswered-questions-about-final-cut-pro-x/

that, “My understanding is that there will be an Apple-provided utility for importing XML from older projects to Final Cut Pro X.”

Are we still expecting this to happen?

Do you have any other suggestions for being able to use footage from prores 422 previous projects other than recapturing the original footage?

Before these I had DV timelines with standard def 4:3 footge and 16:9 footage. DV in DV out.

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; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Mark Dobson]

Sure you can import your completed Pro-res films and cut them up. And bring in all your original HDV clips and then if you want rebuild the project from the ground up. So if you are asked to make revisions that’s all possible even if its a real pain.

I’m currently replacing an interview in a film we completed last year and decided it was far easier to do it in FCP 7. So it’s going to be a slow transition between version 7 and FCP X.

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv

[Alban Egger]

FCPX accepts all files that FCP7 created; ProRes is the best since it is an Apple codec.
The only problem comes with RefenceFile, quicktime-files that were not selfcontaining, I believe i was not able yet to import thos (or create those, which was always a nice way to save space).

So yes, you can import your old edits and also the RAW material from those projects, if you have to rebuild them.

[Tom Wolsky]

What Mark said about importing exported files.

“My understanding is that there will be an Apple-provided utility for importing XML from older projects to Final Cut Pro X.”

In fact Apple has said quite the contrary. They have no plans for providing XML import and have said it can’t be done properly in their view. They will probably provide XML out at some stage.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Kevin P mcauliffe]

Hey Craig,

On a side note, I’d be interested in hearing why you would convert your HDV footage to ProRes, instead of editing it in it’s native format. Just curious.

Kevin P McAuliffe
Creative COW Trainer
kevinpmcauliffe@gmail.com
Twitter: @kpmcauliffe

[James Sullivan]

The test I ran on some old dv footage this weekend revealed that the new final cut does not pick up the reel number!!! You will have to add a reel number back to the footage if you need to keep track of that kind of thing.

James

[Craig Alan]

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/capture_hdv_prores_fw_balis.html

OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.