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Workflow Question
Hello,
I’ve got a semi-complicated question about multi-station workflow. I’ve got a G5 running Final Cut 5.1 here in my office, but I recently realized that my old G4, which was running FCP 4.5 before my upgrade, could serve me as a perfectly-functional work-from-home machine.
My question is, how difficult do people think it would be to continually swap projects back and forth between 5.1 and 4.5? (My work tends to be short duration, like Station IDs and Promos and such.) And what would my workflow be? Export an XML of my timeline, and carry my drives home at night? Would that take forever?
The G4 is old and maxed out, and can’t handle an upgrade in OS or FCP. I do tend to get a lot more done at home, where I can’t be interrupted, and don’t have to share an edit suite, so I’m thinking it might be worth a few hassles. (Plus, having a home edit suite would mean greater productivity on some of my non-paying jobs…)
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
Steve
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6 Replies
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The pojects would not “directly” be transferable. Projects made on Newer versions of FCP will not open directly in older versions of the software.
Although it IS possible to do this with the proper export of the timeline…
It would be easier and “better” to use the same version of FCP on both machines for projects that you’d bounce between the Macs.
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Yes, I know I can’t open 5.1 projects directly in 4.5, or older versions. But I am under the impression I can do this with an XML export. I’ve just never done it, so I don’t know what’s involved. And this would mainly be for projects I just felt like transferring once, and finishing up at home over the weekend or whatever. Not a lot of back-and-forth..
Thanks for your help.
Steve
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Go ahead.
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Use XML – it’s easy
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[Steve Courtney] “But I am under the impression I can do this with an XML export. I’ve just never done it, so I don’t know what’s involved.”
Yes you can do this. You need to do an XML of more than just the timeline though. IF you want access to all the clips, you need to do the entire project. Here is a tutorial on what to do.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/xml_export_FCP_5_to_4.html
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Awesome. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.
Steve
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