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importing footage captured on Avid into Final Cut w/out booting up Avid
is there a way to convert Avid OMF Media Files to QT files that I can import into Final Cut Pro without ever boooting up Avid. I have all the Avid files on my firewire drive but i don’t have the Avid app installed on my personal computer yet, I only have FCP, and I prefer to do my editing on FCP.
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C’mon, you already asked this question in a roundabout way and I gave (what I thought) was a pretty detailed and accurate reply. Check your original thread and post there again if it doesn’t work. You can find my answer to your original thread here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=45&postid=860664
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yeah i was just hoping there was a way to do it without having to buy more software that costs $500.
too bad they make these things so incompatible and difficult. -
Gotta love it when companies compete! It would be nice if there was an easier way, and there might be–but I’ve never tried it.
You say you have your Avid media an an external drive. No guarantees this will work, but you could give it a shot:
Go to the system you have your Avid app on. Select all your clips in your bins, then File–>Export all your clips as a Quicktime Reference (takes only a few seconds)–I’d put them all into 1 folder. Put that folder on your external. Hook it up to your Mac, transfer the folder with your Qtime Reference files to a different drive (you may not have to do this, but if you’re editing off a firewire I would). Now try to import these Qtime Reference files in FCP. It might work, it might not. If it doesn’t you’re going to be stuck exporting each clip or sequence as a self contained Quicktime, recapture in FCP, edit in Avid, or pony up the cash.
However, I heard that Automatic Duck only works for sequences. That means you’d have to lay all your clips out in an Avid sequence (select all in the bin and just drag the batch to a sequence–it’ll lay them out end to end), then Duck the sequence to FCP. Subclip them from there.
Come to think of it, that might be a fast(er) way to transfer your clips to FCP if the Quicktime Reference doesn’t work. Make a sequence with all your clips end to end, export a Qtime Reference file then use Sorenson Squeeze to make it a self contained quicktime. Import this into FCP, subclip your individual shots out and start cutting.
Warning Again: You will lose timecode regardless of how you go–Automatic Duck might help you keep it, but otherwise you lose it when you export a Quicktime–Reference or Not.
Good luck!
Mike.
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