Use Resolve to import FCP7 projects into FCPX

[Steve Connor]

The horse isn’t dead, in fact it’s just a Pony, some of us think it’s worth the time and effort to help it become a racehorse. 🙂

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Andy Field]

if Resolve could do this – why couldn’t Apple have spent 10 minutes and created a sequence translation program? (instead of having to plunk down 900 dollars more for resolve making FCPX no longer the bargain Apple markets it to be)

How much bad press would they have avoided? – giving you best of all worlds — using Final Cut Pro X to do what it does well (speed – fewer transcodes – the magnetic timeline for anyone who needs or wants that) and Final Cut 7 for what it does well – broadcast monitor monitoring – tracks – easy export for audio mixes – 10 years of muscle memory for FCP editors etc…

If Apple’s team was as up front and as open as Adobe now appears to be (and Avid is becoming) Apple could have made everyone from pro-sumers to pros happy. Instead they’ve angered so many people they’ve undoubtedly lost a large percentage of them for good.

Textbook case of terrible marketing and customer service.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Craig Seeman]

[Andy Field] “if Resolve could do this – why couldn’t Apple have spent 10 minutes and created a sequence translation program? (instead of having to plunk down 900 dollars more for resolve making FCPX no longer the bargain Apple markets it to be)”

CatDV can do this for $499 I believe

Resolve Lite can do it for Free.

Yes Apple should have a utility to input FCP7 sequences for FCPX use. Granted that’s no panacea but it really would have helped especially since that level of support seems relatively easy to achieve.

Regarding FCPXML is that I suspect many programs are gong to support it making Automatic Duck less important. Of course Duck will do this for Adobe FCPX to After Effects work as well as their other programs.

BTW the next level of FCP7 to FCPX support might be something like a means to Media Management FCP7 Bins into Named Folders in the Finder. FCPX imports Folders as Keyword Collections. Subclips and Nest would probably be another tangle but Bins to Folders would be another step forwards.

[Chris Conlee]

Hmmm, let’s see… 20+ hours of synced dailies for a feature, 2 and 3 cameras grouped… Different animals, but both very time consuming.

Chris

[Morten]

Yes works flawlessly in the free Resolve Lite – but no audio!

– No Parking Production –

2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
…. and FCPX in the garbage bin