How to Export from PPro CS5 (Windows 7) to edit in Final Cut Pro?

[Andy Garrett]

Thanks again Jon.

Perhaps you could give me some advice on a similar, but opposite problem I’m having.

I have an MTV music video from the 90’s saved on Digital Betacam. I took it to a post house yesterday to get it digitized from Digital Betacam.

They use Final Cut Pro and gave me MOV files (one uncompressed) the other supposedly in an HDV container, however neither one will import into Premiere (or play in Quicktime on Windows 7).

Is there any specific filetype and settings I can tell the Final Cut editor to render it out in a format Premiere on Windows will recognize.

Thanks

[Lokendra Parajuli]

Hi andy,

Greetings from Nepal!

Option 01
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To digitize your media, your post house must have used an I/O hardware (ie, AJA, BlackMagic, Matrox, Blufish etc). These cards use their own properitory codecs. Ask your post house for vender of the that card and search the website of that card manufacturer to find the SOFTWARE only version of the codec which is also known as VFW (Video For Windows) codec which makes it possible to work with the digitized file without the presence of the actual hardware through which it was digitized in the first hand. This way you’ll avoid any re-encoding of the file. (I own Matrox cards, so when I digitize something, I provide with the Matrox VFW codec along with the digitized files to the client so the file can be played back on their machine without any Matrox card.)

Option 02 (works only if the file is playable in FCP)
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Use ProRes 422 HQ. This needs re-encoding, but you get a quicktime file in decent quality indistinguishable by eyes from the original capture. Ask your editor to re-encode the files to PrpRes 422 HQ in Final Cut Pro. With the presence of Quicktime for windows ver 7.6.6 or later, Premiere CS4/CS5 can playback it in real time.

I’m a colorist and I use ProRes 422HQ everyday to render from Apple Color to master out it from Premiere CS5 later in windows 7.

Hope this helps.

Also Hats Off to Jon Barrie for his clear, straight and sincere words. This it what preserve the spirit of the forums like this.

Cheers!

Lokendra Parajuli
Colorist / Post Production Consultant / VFX Artist
Kathmandu, Nepal

[Andy Garrett]

Thanks Lokendra, that worked.

[Lokendra Parajuli]

Hi!

Nice to hear that!

Can u tell me which of the options you followed? Just curious.

Cheers

Lokendra Parajuli
Colorist / Post Production Consultant / VFX Artist
Kathmandu, Nepal

[Katy Lundsteen]

Hi there, I am in CS5 needing to deliver cut video to an editor in California working on FC7, and I am also needing to know how to get him just the clips, and not the whole footage. Could you explain what you did following Lokendra’s advice? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much, Katy