iTunes playlists into FCP 2007

[Steve Eisen]

Absolutely illegal! Take your post somewhere else.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Tom Wolsky]

Eh? It’s perfectly legal. Or was that humor, and I missed it?

Playlist2FCP is the only way to do it that I know of.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Walter Biscardi]

[Steve Eisen] ”
Absolutely illegal! Take your post somewhere else.”

He did say it was non-DRM music and actually some people use iTunes to organize their music and SFX files. In fact, Shane Ross covers how this is done in his new DVD on getting organized in Final Cut Pro.

https://training.creativecow.net/dvd_store/get_organized_fcp/get_organized_fcp.html

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

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Ben Oliver]

you can also just make sure you rip your cd’s as 48k aiff files….then just ctrl click, show in finder, and drag into your bin.

its not absolutely illegal. i get free music all the time from friends who have bands, I store it all in itunes, and use in my projects all the time.

[Neil Ryan]

[Steve Eisen] “Absolutely illegal! Take your post somewhere else.Steve Eisen”

Whilst it might be easy to reduce myself to name-calling as a response to your comments Steve, I have been sharing with the Cow community long enough, now, to know that the majority of its users are fair-minded enough to know that you have shot yourself in the foot and that there’s nothing to gain by me debasing myself by following your lead.

I have a FCP suite which includes of course, iTunes and some large storage.
The iTunes library contains music given to us by companies such as EMI, BMGZomba and Extreme.
In total, there are over 35,000 songs in iTunes which I can listen to and short list for use in an FCP project.
Once that short list is in FCP, I can play with those songs, maybe edit bits together, try them against the picture cut, etc., to see what tracks I will ultimately use.

When all is said and done, the royalties are paid.

Steve, which part of that is illegal?

Running a music library like this might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but getting a playlist FOR THIS PURPOSE from iTunes to FCP IS legal and, at times, a sensible workflow.

As an alternative, I often use the online preview and download libraries that these companies have, which negates the iTunes playlist issue.

Steve, please go and do something positive for the world. Even if it’s as simpler as making a coffee for someone else, and restore some good Karma back to the Cow.

Enough said now, all; my question’s been answered.

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Post Production
The Pod Multimedia
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