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Moving project from fcp7
I have been using fcp7 since it came out but realize all my work arounds will only continue to get more aggravating. I have a very long project I have picking away at for a year. It’s done and Compressor won’t take it without crashing and just rendering gives me out of memory errors and takes days. Premiere has many benefits I am looking for so I just got the cs6 package. I was going to send a self contained movie to media encoder but can I send the unrendered project over to Premiere? Maybe an XML file. I will be going through the learning curve on the next project from scratch, but on this one, how would you proceed? Thanks
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Either way will work, if under time crunch I would export high-res master from FCP and drop that on AME for deliverables.
Otherwise, export a XML file from FCP and import that into Pr.
You’ll have to spend some time tweaking, replacing, linking but you’ll get it all there and then can render out from sequence.
Chris
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That’s great news. Will there be an appreciable quality loss exporting hi rez deliverable to ame? I assume an xml move to be more native.
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Well, this is it, yes, you will have another compression step so there is a generation loss, though, most (not in the biz) would not know the difference.
The XML route would save you that step, but at more work and time.
Chris
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Thanks Chris. I have appreciated your help over the years in the fcp forum. Nice to know you hang out here too!
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I did the XML import into Pr and was amazed at overall how well that worked. While importing, there is a progress bar in the lower right hand corner, while working each file it reads video files as .mov files. Is that normal or is there some kind of conversion going on? I always edit in ProRes 422 in FCP. There are small issues like audio clips where they are supposed to be but no waveform so I assume they got disconnected, not sure how to reconnect. Colored text boxes are just outlines and don’t respond to correction, but are there in spirit. Playback freezes and stutters but probably needs rendering. Anyone know of a tutorial on XML importing to Premiere? Thanks.
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[Craig Johnson] “I always edit in ProRes 422 in FCP”
[Craig Johnson] “t reads video files as .mov files”
Video files have two basic components: the video codec and the file format. So ProRes 422 is the codec and it is .mov (the format).
In order to see the wavform in Premiere, you have to twirl down the little triangle.
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In order to see the wavform in Premiere, you have to twirl down the little triangle.
You also have to wait for the software to build them, like when you first imported the XML file…
Chris
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I wasn’t sure what to expect either format or codec or other. That explains it. As far as the audio clips that are empty. I let the timeline populate for hours. Audio clips that are fine were the ones I figured out how to see the waveform. I need to figure out how to reconnect the audio, I’m using FCP terminology, maybe it’s called something else in pr.
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Right or control click on the clip and choose “relink”
Chris
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Learning curves suck. Getting tons done as I learn this software but can’t find an answer to this so far. The audio portion of a clip was muted in the original and a voice over audio clip replaced it. The muted portion is now at full volume. I pulled the volume bar down as far as it goes on the waveform. I use a few bits of audio in the clip and they now sound reversed. I unlinked the audio from video and the audio won’t delete. Any ideas?
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