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Using Premiere and FInal Cut Pro together – Question please help me
Hello there,
where i work, we have a pc running Prem Pro 2 and a mac running FCP 4. We have to transfer files between them quite a bit. Whats the best way to export from FCP so that the file can be read easily on the PC.
The problem that i have at the moment is that i have exported a file on FCP that then needs to be put into a sequence on the PC. Is there any kind of communal settings that both editing programs like to use. I know prem prefers AVI’s and FCP prefers MOVs.
Please help as its making everything take ages.
Thanks in advance
Jamie
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8 Replies
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Don’t know why you would switch between systems, I’d just leave the jobs best suited for each system where they are. There is not a common file type you would not have to render on each.
A bit like mixing “Apples” and oranges, pun intended.
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Well it all depends on what your sequence settings are in both FCP and premiere. You can render .mov out of premiere and .avi out of FCP, but you have to make sure you are using the right codecs for your sequences. Are you doing uncompressed SD in both, if so what settings?
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I’ve been rendering out in FCP with DV PAL mov files. At 720 x 576 resolution. These are whats taking so long to render in prem.
In answer to the last post, We wanted to import a mov file created in Avid, prem wouldnt read it so we put it into FCP. That read it and then strated crashing all the time. SO then we reverted back to Prem. The only problem was that we had an interview cut up in FCP which needed to be put into the final sequence. So I tried again to put the Avid mov into prem and i managed to get it to work after downloading a codec. Then i exported out the interview in FCP and put that into prem. This is whats taking so long.
Why is it that a video file in 720 x 576 res with DV-PAL compression takes so long to pass between the 2 editing systems.
Thanks again guys for all your help.
Jamie
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Jamie, you should render a DV PAL AVI out of FCP. Go to render using quicktime conversion and select AVI then go to options and pick the DV Pal codec. Then make sure both your fcp and premiere sequences are set to DV Pal at the same resolution. If you go from premiere to FCP try rendering a .mov with DV Pal codec. You can do that using the Adobe Media Encoder.
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Thanks again.
I have just tried that in FCP and it reckons about an hour to render for a 15 min sequence. Whilst using the mov option was only going to take about 20. Does that sound right to you.
Thanks again you’ve all been very patient.
Jamie
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Of course, cause now you’re convertng the video, not just writing it.
Premiere Pro 2 should play FCP DV-PAL quicktime movies no problem – but you will have to create them and that will take time – no shortcuts. -
It will probably save you time in the long run to wait the hour to convert to AVI. That way, premiere won’t have to spend time converting and rendering footage.
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just put it out to tape and then recaprure in on the other
But in the future just stick with one system or the other
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