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more questions re: transfer from vegas to Final Cut
First of all I just want to thank everyone for your answers, they’re invaluable!
Ok, so when i asked how to transfer a project from vegas to fcp without having to re-capture all of our media, douglas told me to:
“export as .mxf (XDCAM HD) and it’ll cross read perfectly.”
which sounds great but what, exactly, am i exporting? we have media spread across several different harddrives – one glitch here is that the drives were formatted for pc only – the content doesn’t show up if you plug them into a mac…so one problem is the media that needs to be converted to some format readable by final cut (on a new drive, of course), and then the project itself – i have no idea if it’s possible to transfer a project to final cut and preserve volume settings, fades, etc – does anyone know, and if so what i need to do exactly?
thank you so much for the advice!
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Try MacDrive7 to make PC disks readable by the mac. I am using it & it works.
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It’s not about the disk type, unfortunately it’s about the file type. Final Cut is very specific about what it will accept. And once FCP has touched a file, for the most part it renders that file useless in most PC NLE systems and some Apple systems.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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MacDrive7 will work great, but if anyone out there just wants a free solution for reading and writing to NTFS (Windows) formatted drives on their OSX macs, check out https://www.ntfs-3g.org/
We’ve got it installed on all the OSX 10.5 macs here at work and it works great for us.But to answer Angela’s question, no there’s no way I know to edit in Vegas (fades and what-not) and have any editing data transfer over to Final Cut. If I recall, earlier you were talking about an EDL and worried that exporting to mxf then moving to FCP wouldn’t preserve timecode so the edl could work in FCP? Would it be possible to enable the edit list on Vegas, then just render out the remaining footage to MXF and transfer that to FCP?
Of course at that point, why not just do the whole thing in Vegas 🙂
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Maybe finalcut doesn’t have the codecs that it neeeds to play the file. Make sure the drive that you are trying to play the clips from ins writtable. NTFS will no be writable in FC. Fat32 works great but the limit is 4 gigs per file.
Have you try importing a very simple file into fc…maybe a quicktime time and make a few simple edits.
I havent tried this myself because i dont have vegas 8 but i learned to edit on vegas and now only use FC.
Also check this article about vegas to AE
https://createdigitalmotion.com/2008/06/24/super-fast-editing-and-post-production-vegas-importing-into-after-effects/
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