Final Cut to Premiere

[steezureboy]

Yo guys. I got a problem my friend uploaded his hpx170 footage onto final cut using capture (not copying the contents to hd). I need to grab his footage but the quicktime video formats can only be played on final cut. Im looking for the best way to transfer the video and lose the least amount of quality. Thanks.

[David Shawl]

I have been in the same situation before. You either buy Raylight Decoder for $95 http://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htm or you ask your friend to export a high resolution h.264 Quicktime out of Final Cut for you. This has happened to me so many times so I went with Raylight and it's great.

[jrmiller_entertainment]

I had the same sad story. Raylight saved my life. I found that my system bogs down or locks up when I try to export a long video when it's raylight file intensive. That part sucks but if there is no other option Raylight is your best friend.

[YVSL]

This may help??

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/prc/10228.html

[Quintessential Studios]

Upgrade to CS4

[David Shawl]

It doesn't seem clear if CS4 supports the Quicktime DVCPROHD codec. It supports DVCPROHD as MXF / from the P2 cards, just like CS3. I think you would need a Quicktime codec update (which doesn't seem to be happening) to access Final Cut's Quicktime DVCPROHD exports unless you went with something like Raylight.

[Quintessential Studios]

IDK, this sounds pretty clear to me:

"Final Cut Pro users can transfer projects directly to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 without conversions or re-rendering, preserving commonly used effects and transitions."

So don't transfer QT movies, transfer the whole project. Of course, this is referring to if you're on the same machine, but seems like you could just package up the project on a HD and move that over to your adobe station.

I watched two demos of the quoted bit above recently. It's pretty sweet.

[David Shawl]

Final Cut takes all incoming MXF P2 footage and wraps it in Quicktime with the DVCPROHD codec (which is not available for PC other than Raylight and other 3rd parties).

steezureboy (http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/member.php?u=39857) only has the Quicktime wrapped footage, not the original P2 data. Using CS4's Final Cut Project import will work with getting the timeline, bins, effects, etc.. to work in CS4, but it doesn't say it solves the problem of the lack of a DVCPRO HD quicktime codec for the PC.

[Quintessential Studios]

True.

Cool steadicam reel BTW.

[David Shawl]

Thanks

[emretufekci]

Yo guys. I got a problem my friend uploaded his hpx170 footage onto final cut using capture (not copying the contents to hd). I need to grab his footage but the quicktime video formats can only be played on final cut. Im looking for the best way to transfer the video and lose the least amount of quality. Thanks.

Export out of FCP using animation codec, it will be lossless. If you are going to Avid re-ingest and dump the Animation codec version as the file will be huge.

[David Jimerson]

Supposedly with the new 4.0.1 update, Premiere Pro can take FCP projects, including the QuickTime rewraps.

I haven't tried it

[steezureboy]

sweet thanks a lot guys. saved me a lot of time

[Milezee]

Supposedly with the new 4.0.1 update, Premiere Pro can take FCP projects, including the QuickTime rewraps.

I haven't tried it

yeah, I just saw that 4.0.1. comedown on the autoupdate, would like to try pulling a FCP project, it would fill that nasty gap in mixed platform environments

[timbook2]

moving between apple and pc still has a lot of hiccups, especially when trying to mount discs.
I found Catacombae NTFS-3G (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae) to work fine. you need macfuse !

[David Saraceno]

motionjpeg usually works

[Green Hornet]

I am interested in trying to work with a final cut sequence or to edit some final cut mov files.
I am using a PC with Adobe Premiere CS4.

IF anyone has some test footage, I can open up my home server to upload to.
Let me know what you have