The continuing saga of FCP to Resolve to Avid

[Oliver Peters]

[Caroline Rowlands] “Although I will be bringing some of the rushes over again, to overcut a 90 minute feature is a big task and then any audio that is not synced to the picture you would have to go back to FCPX and figure out the take and timecode. “

Type in the TC and bang away. Just stick with sync audio. After all, if they are bringing in another editor to recut it, how accurate does this rough cut really need to be? It’s going to get trashed anyway.

[Caroline Rowlands] “I guess one thing your answer tells me is to maybe give up on the clever way and just go for manual which is helpful so thankyou! “

The trouble with trying to bring over audio is that I don’t believe it will represent any sync relationship to the master clips. It will only be independent audio clips on the timeline, which isn’t very useful for making meaningful revisions.

[Caroline Rowlands] “I’d just love to know why the aaf from Premiere looks like it has all the right metadata but just will not relink..”

Because project migration is largely a big lie told to us as editors. Simple things come across, but a LOT of stuff gets lost along the way. And relinking inside Media Composer is the most difficult process of the various NLEs. It’s really picky.

[Caroline Rowlands] “There must be something in the way XtoPro makes an AAF that differs from Premier in my mind”

X2Pro is designed to work with ProTools. Not really anything else.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Simon Ubsdell]

Have you looked at AATranslator?

https://www.aatranslator.com.au/

It’s an incredibly versatile solution for audio interchange that might just be useful here.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Hugh Hartford]

Hi Caroline, it sounds like I’m in the same situation as you. A change in editor has meant we need to shift a feature film cut in FCPx to AVID and its down to me to make this work.

I’ve imported all the raw rushes into avid so all the video and audio is in avid (not ama linked but transcoded as avid mxf files). ‘All’ I need to do now is bring in the 90min rough cut from FCPX. I can get the cut from X to Resolve 15 and it plays and relinks to the raw. I’ve decompressed all secondary timelines and unpacked synced clips.

The problem is now getting an AAF out of Resolve. DR just crashes on AAF export.

Did you ever find a workflow that worked getting a timeline from X to avid?