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Using FCP and M100HD
I have a question for you intelligent folk who know way more than I do. I also posted this in the Media100HD forum, but thought I might get some additional info or perspectives from this forum, as well.
Upon reading forums and doing some research, I understand that the Media100HD can use media captured in FCP. It also my understanding that the process does no work in reverse. But here is my questions:
Is there a simple and reliable way to capture footage in FCP, cut it on the Media100HD, but then still be able to deliver a FCP sequence to clients? A lot of my clients like to walk away with a drive array that has all of the media and project files readily accessible, and they often want it in FCP for many obvious reasons. Am I limited to working in FCP (not that I am not a fan of FCP and use it quite often) in these situations, or is there a solution? These would be for offline edits, predominantly.
Is this an absurd question? Have any of you had experience or the need to do the very same thing?
Thanks for all your help.
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4 Replies
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The only real way to swap timelines between M100 and FCP is an EDL which may or may not work for you, unless something has changed w/ version 12 that was just released.
Jeremy
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Media 100 started OME their boards from AJA when Boris bought them.
So, with version 11 and a NEW Media 100 AJA board, one could use the same board to capture with Media 100 AND with FCP -as long as you downloaded the correct FCP AJA drivers.But, this still doesn’t solve you challege, because the Media 100 uses a different codec than FCP will do in realtime. Same the other way, so no matter which way you captured-you’d need to import the files in-then wait for the files to transcode to their working codec. Then you’d need to do the same on exporting to the other system, but the rendering for these files is usually close to realtime. Making redigitizing almost faster and easier. For you the simplest way would be to digitize with M100, cut, master-then export a QuickTime DV file that your clients could use with FCP.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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While you are right, the issue here is not the media, the issue he wants is swapping editable timelines.
Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy,
The explanation of the M100 boards was to clear up some confussion he mentioned in his post.
The option of exporting a DV file from Media 100 is certainly a valid solution and possibliy one that hadn’t been thought of before. I also mentioned that redigitizing (via EDL) would probably be simpler and faster.So my post actually did address possible solutions to his problem as well as give some additional info.
Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production
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