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Relinking clips from projects edited in FCP
We want to finish a project in Premiere CS4 that will be initially edited in FCP by using the new XML FCP project import feature. The source footage is P2 and XDCAM MXF files, and HDV M2T files currently living on the Premiere system. I want to give the FCP editor a copy of the source material on a hard drive, and be able to relink to the original when we import the FCP XML project file back into Premiere.
If I convert the files to Quicktime on the Premiere system (using AME) before giving them to the FCP editor, I lose the timecode. (AME won’t pass the timecode to Quicktime. Adobe please fix this.)
If I give the FCP editor copies of the native files and have him do the conversion, the file names will be different in the imported FCP project (.mov suffix), and I would have to manually relink every clip when the project is imported into Premiere (right?)
Is there some way of changing the file name suffixes back to the original suffixes after the FCP project is imported into Premiere, reopen the project, and have the clips relink? Would you have to rename the clips one by one?
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no. however. if you convert the files to DVCPRO HD (and get Raylight’s decoder for the PC side) you can use the same files in both programs.
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Thanks, David. Good point. But I know Premiere won’t handle HDV Quicktimes. How about XDCAM QTs?
I’m thinking I may be able to link the FCP Quicktimes to the MXF and HDV originals by selecting the offline QT clip on the timeline, loading the original file in the source viewer, and selecting the “relink-Match Frame” right-click function on the selected clip (presuming the timecode matches).
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The answer is actually “yes.” As long as the only thing that’s changed with the clip name is the “.mov” you can use any text editor with “find/replace” functionality.
Open the Premiere project file with your text editor (or Adobe Dreamweaver for added ease) (the Premiere file is in XML format) and do a “replace” with “.mov” in the find field and “[whatever the file extension should be]” in the replace field.
You should be good to go. I do this all the time going back and forth between FCP and Premiere, changing the .mov extension (Final Cut proxies) to .r3d (original RED).
DON’T FORGET to back up your original Project file in case you screw something up editing it at the code level.
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