FCP project transfer to Premiere with EDL?

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Hello!
A friend of mine started editing a short film in FCP6 with footage shot with an HVX200 (720pN 24p .mxf). The audio was recorded separately, so the first thing he did was sync them together. Now it turns out he can't finish the project, but I can...on my PC with Premiere Pro CS3.

We both have all the raw video and audio media. There's about 5 hours of raw footage.

Would an Edit decision list be the best way for me to pick up where he left off?
I know Premiere supports EDLs in the CMX3600 format.

Thanks in advance!

FCP6
Premiere Pro CS3
 
Well, how is he viewing the P2 files? Did he import them with Log and Transfer converting them to Quicktime? If so, you can't use that media. Did he use Raylight or Calibrated to read the MXF files natively?

And EDL will only convert sequences, not project files. Most likely you'll have to start from scratch...now that I think about it.
 
(I can't contact him right now, but I'm assuming that:)
He probably imported via Log and Transfer.
When you Log and Capture, are the names of the original mxf files intact? Or does it change them? Since I have all the original mxfs in my Premiere project, the audio that he manipulated/synced is more important to me. (I just need to know which clips it was synced to.)
He probably did all the syncing in one sequence.
If that's the case, do you think it'll work?
 
"When you Log and Capture, are the names of the original mxf files intact? Or does it change them?"

Depends...you can change them or you can leave them alone. I tend to change them when I import. FCP knows the connection to the originals...but if he changed the name, the original name will not be in the clip name. It won't be in any column acutally.

"He probably did all the syncing in one sequence. "

Sure about that? Because the way to sync audio to clips in FCP is to use a function called MERGE CLIPS. This means that you make ANOTHER clip that contains bits from two clips...such as audio from one and video from another. This method doesn't have the clips in a sequence. In fact, syncing in a sequence is a very poor way to do this. BUT, if he did do this, and if he didn't change the names, you might have a shot.

might.
 
Hmm, I'm not sure how he synced the audio and video- I just know they were both recorded completely independent of each other (video on camera, audio on DAT), so they had to be synced via the clapboard. Wouldn't you have to drop the video and audio in a sequence to sync them?
 
Nope. You simply find the slate clap...visibly on the video, audibly on the audio recording, then mark IN points on both clips. Then you highlight both clips, select the MERGE CLIPS function, merge based on IN points, and now you have a new clip with audio and video sync'd.

BUT...all this is moot. You have to hear from the other editor how he did it. He might have done it the sequence way.
 
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