Switching from Vegas to FCP

Eon42

Eon42

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Ok, so here's a quick summary to explain where I'm at.

I've edited my 1st rough-edit of my feature-length film on Vegas Pro 6.0 (The rough-edit is 100 minutes in duration, split into five 20 minute intervals - separate veg.files) Due to money/time constraints - I wanted to quickly begin editing the rough picture edit on Vegas. Now that I want to switch to FCP (Final Cut Studio 2) I would like to know if this would be an appropriate way to switch NLEs during post-production:

To my knowledge, you cannot pull up .veg files in a FCP timeline - SO, I thought that I'd render all of my project files AVI Uncompressed WITH 2:3:3:2 insertion (Since I shot 24PA) and then pull that up in FCP and edit as I please.

Does this sound like my only option? Would this even work?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to knock my idea and tell me to go to school - I'm a 19 year old filmmaker who has yet to go to film school - and pretty much learns everything either by trail and error, or DVXuser :)

Thanks,

E
 
I'd just send yourself an EDL and create a new project in FCP... capturing from the original tapes.

CaptM
 
I've heard of EDLs being beneficial to those switching from FCP to Avid. Can it be done with Vegas as well?
 
"Vegas EDLs are not the same as those used in traditional linear editing suites and are not intended as a project interchange for other editing applications. Because of the significant differences between editing applications, projects that are converted from EDLs (or exported to EDLs) are necessarily simplified. Events are inserted into the timeline on a single track, and transition effects from the other application are replaced with crossfades. Projects that are imported from another application's EDL are initially limited to four audio tracks. If you add more tracks, save the project as a .veg file."



Though going this route will restrict the use of multiple audio tracks and effects, I suppose this would be my best option. (Assuming FCP will read EDLs from Vegas) Is there anything else I should know?? Thanks CapM
 
ANOTHER question - Would I necessarily need to recapture everything from the original tapes? I have everything stored on an external drive - so is there any way around having to capture/log everything when switching to FCP?
 
There is no easy way to do this unfortunately. You might want to trying exporting an edl and importing that into Final Cut, and then try reconnecting the sequence clips to your media, but these kind of things almost never work out smoothly. I've even had problems exporting a Final Cut 6 XML backwards into Final Cut 5 and gave up.
 
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