Sharing Projects Between Intel and Power PC

[Mark Raudonis]

[Chris Babbitt] “as long as I’m working in the same version of FCP”

yes.

mark

[Dog Food]

I just spoke with a guy at the MAC store. He said that as long as you are using FCP 5.1, the EDLs should transfer between a POWER MAC and a MAC BOOK PRO…

I want to purchase a MAC BOOK PRO but I need to know for sure that the EDLs can switch BACK & FORTH between these two computers.

Can anybody confirm this. The guy at the MAC store was only 99% sure that the EDLs go both ways.. I need 100% conformation.

thanks
for any help..

[Ron James]

EDL’s are just text. As for project files, I’ve already exchanged and they’ve worked just fine, but you might have to update your project if it’s coming from a previous version (like 5.1.1 to 5.1.2, for instance).

[Shane Ross]

Don’t do EDLs….just exchange the project file. Make sure that you date them and add your initials, so that you know whose is whose.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Dog Food]

Thank you..
Please clarify.. The individual FCP icons on my desktop (different projects)….

Is that a “project file” or is that an EDL.. I always thought that the icon I double click to open individual FCP projects was called an EDL…

cheers

[Uli Plank]

No. An EDL is a relatively limited form of interchange between different editing systems, transferring information about edits and a few standardized effects.

The project file holds all the information about your project, i.e. all edits, all effects and all the links to your media sources. If you used logging and batch capture (and still have the originals), you can reconstruct your whole project from this file. But it’s strictly FCP and version specific (not backward-compatible), but hardware agnostic.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Walter Biscardi]

[dog food] “Is that a “project file” or is that an EDL.. I always thought that the icon I double click to open individual FCP projects was called an EDL…”

It’s a Project File. EDL is a “Edit Decision List” file you Export from FCP for use in another application such as Avid.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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[Dog Food]

Thank you Walter.. AGAIN.. you rock!! That’s the answer I was looking for..

cheers

[Ron James]

This is pretty basic stuff. Give the calf forum a try to get familiar with the basics:

https://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=8