[Richard Herd]

Hmm….here’s what I see.

[Richard Herd]

Try media managing the big project into “reels,” an old-school term from film, but it can still apply.

Media Manager in FCP is pretty straightforward. It is not a copy/paste type of thing, so you don’t select clips in the timeline; rather, you select sequences in the project pane.

Give that a try.

I just ran into an XML problem — render files! PP doesn’t use the FCP render files, which are new files the software creates when you apply effects, motion, and so on. So!! Before you media manage your project. Click it in the finder and copy paste it and rename it. Then, highlight everything in the sequence timeline, right click, and remove all attributes. Everything. Put all of the clips onto Video Track 1.

Then media manage.

Then, open the new media managed project.

Then, export XML.

Open PP. Save it. Import XML. (At this point, the actual media should eliminate stuff you are not using, and all of the render files.)

Whew!

Download the codec here: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1396

Then it needs to be installed in Library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFIQSXJ4RE

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[Richard Herd]

[Herb Sevush] “but in it’s tie-ins with AE, Photoshop and Audition, “

Don’t omit Speed Grade! WOW!!

[Richard Herd]

Convert the text to a shape layer.

[Richard Herd]

Oh man that sucks. I’ve had great success XML-ing really old FCP7 projects with tons of media. Here’s what I do.

In FCP7, I select the project (not just a clip, or sequence) and then create the XML, and I keep the XML files in their own export folder called XML. For some projects, I only need a sequence, from FCP7, so I will media manage the FCP7 project first, so that I get only what I actually need to work on, for that particular moment (if it’s a subset of the full project).

The reason I do this is because I want to make sure PP has access to the media it will be using, and media manage creates a new media folder. Then I open the media managed FCP7 project, and create the XML from it.

Then, I open premiere, and save it first, and then I import the XML. It might be a wise move for you to Media Manage your FCP7 project first.

Maybe give that a try.

Not only did I create a dual boot system, by I also had to download and install the APR422 codecs (which was a bit of a process). If you are moving from OSX to Windows, there are additional issues, for the Windows machine to see and export APR.

tl;dr — make sure the codecs in the FCP sequence are installed for Premiere. In FCP, media manage first. Then export an XML. Open PP. Save PP. Import XML.

[Richard Herd]

[Howard Duy Vu] “IMO dynamic linking is overrated. It may be good for simple things, but often you will want to keep track of multiple revisions, and it’s just much easier to keep rendering into a folder. Also, you’ll have to render ALL THE TIME when you bump out new versions. What about when you go to another house for color grading? You’ll have to render them out anyway.

Another thing people don’t realize is it can be bad when you archive a project. What if years down the line you need to open up the project, but the newest version of AE does something weird to those old comps (not to mention updated plugins)? If it’s already rendered, you’ll have them.”

First, when you, Howard, write “you” referring to me, I’m not sure what you, Howard, are talking about.

I don’t have any of the issues you, Howard, mentioned:

— keeping track of multiple versions
— rendering all the time bumping out new versions
— going elsewhere for color grading
— archiving
— years down the road
— old comps in new AE.

Again: I, Richard, have had no problem with any of these things.

[Richard Herd]

[Walter Soyka] “leading the way on marketing 4K”

Red already won that marketing effort.

[Richard Herd]

Can you post a screen capture?

[Richard Herd]

The reversing…

On the media, is a line for “volume,” but also there is a dropdown triangle, and when you click that you can also select “time.” It may be that you have it on time and when you drug down the volume it was actually time.

[Richard Herd]

[John Davidson] “The number one thing on the list is exploring new avenues of creative and challenging myself and the team to never settle for passable work.”

That would make a perfect t-shirt ’cause it really is the hard part.