transferring avid adrenaline files to final cut pro

[Shane Ross]

You can download the Avid Codecs from Avid…just google Avid Codecs Mac…and see if that will work, but most likely it won’t. They typically let you view the footage in QT, but not allow you to edit the footage in FCP. FCP deals with QUicktime files, and Avid captures as OMFI or MXF…

Best to recapture the footage in FCP.

Shane

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[Torrey Harris]

Shane re-capturing is not an option, any other suggestions

torrey

lt prod

[Shane Ross]

Why do people ALWAYS say this? Anytime people want to take files from one system to another and edit them, recapturing is NEVER an option. Why is that?

Get the Avid codecs…see if they work. If they work in QT but not in FCP, then use QT to export the files into something FCP can edit. Know that all the timecode and reel information will be gone from those clips…IF they convert.

Shane

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[James Cole]

Hi Torrey,

I hope you have figured out the problem by now but just in case you haven’t, or if any other person in need stumbles upon this thread…

I have recently gone through the same problem of trying to get logged and captured footage from Avid Media Composer across to Final Cut Pro. There’s little information that I could find scattered around the net and what could be found only described one little part.

Eventually myself and a colleague worked out the process of transferring the clips as well as keeping all the logged information and time-codes. After putting so much effort in, I thought I’d write a step by step guide on how we achieved it.

You can read it in the article section of my website.

How To Convert Logged Video Clips From Avid Media Composer to Final Cut Pro

I hope this helps to ease the pain.

James Cole
Editor – Visual Effects Supervisor
HYSTERIA Productions

[Curt Massof]

Thanks for that write up, James.
Very informative.

Curt Massof
Room 39

[James Cole]

No Problem Curt.

I just hope it makes things easier for people.

And besides, what’s the point in having the knowledge if you don’t share it.

J.C.

James Cole
Editor – Visual Effects Supervisor
HYSTERIA Productions

[James Cole]

Just in case anyone is still interested in this information, I have updated my website and the URL has changed.
You can now find the article at here.

How To Convert Logged Video Clips From Avid Media Composer to Final Cut Pro

I’ve also provided a download for Sebsky Tools which no longer seems to be available.

James Cole
Director, Editor
HYSTERIA Productions