Dennis Radeke
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No, that will not work. FCP does not understand what a .aep file is. You could render the After Effects comp, replace it’s usage in Premiere Pro and then export to FCP. That would be the only way I could think of it working.
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With Premiere Pro CS5, you can import and EXPORT FCP XML as well as Avid AAF.
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With the HVX200 and other P2 type devices, the media is most often recorded as an MXF file to a p2 card. You can edit the MXF files natively in Premiere Pro. If however, you want to record DV with the HVX200, Premiere Pro can capture it via firewire.
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The advantage of Premiere Pro and After Effects together is that you don’t have to immediately render to get an idea of how an AE comp looks like in an NLE timeline. With FCP (or any other NLE) you have to render first, import into FCP and then see how it looks. If you need to make changes or add something, it requires another render.
Premiere Pro and After Effects share RAM preview, so can see how the comp looks like in context before you actually need to render.
It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely a nice little extra to have.
Dennis
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Indeed, Premiere Pro will work natively with XDCAM media (or just about anything else as well). The most impressive for me are Canon 5D/7D and AVCHD media…
If you want to work with FCP, you could conceivably use Adobe Media Encoder to batch process your XDCAM footage to ProRes if everything else isn’t working for you.
On a more drastic (but cheaper) scale, you could try to format your hard drive and rebuild your Mac to get everything working properly.
Dennis
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I agree with the others that adding the transitions last will be the most effective. Premiere Pro will export the simplest things like a cross dissolve in the FCP XML but the list of transitions is very small.
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Premiere Pro CS5 supports that format natively
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I will say that Adobe apps will use all your cores and all of your available memory effectively. If you plan on having multiple Adobe apps open a lot of the time, then I would favor more memory with a $4k budget.
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Premiere Pro does not have a preset for 1080p60 in AVCHD presets, but I’d be curious to see if it would play correctly in CS5. Any test footage on a Panasonic site that we could try?
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Assuming you don’t want to purchase CS5 which supports FCP XML export, I would try downloading a trial of Premiere Pro CS5, import a COPY of your CS3 project and then see if you can export FCP XML to finish.
Hope this helps.